Bojo on Zoom a day after the MOD banned it

SirGalahad · 1 Apr 2020

https://news.sky.com/story/coronair...re-was-banned-by-ministry-of-defence-11963889

Coronavirus: Cabinet talks held on Zoom days after software was banned by Ministry of Defence

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1244985949534199808

Bojo posted the screenshot and you can read the zoom ID number.

Just have to guess the password and you are in.

JRM - in full suit.

ajohn · 1 Apr 2020

SirGalahad said:
https://news.sky.com/story/coronair...re-was-banned-by-ministry-of-defence-11963889

Coronavirus: Cabinet talks held on Zoom days after software was banned by Ministry of Defence

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1244985949534199808

Bojo posted the screenshot and you can read the zoom ID number.

Just have to guess the password and you are in.

JRM - in full suit.

Probably uses wifi and same with mouse and keyboard etc so that can be hacked. Maybe his password is Churchill or that backwards if he thought enough.

conny · 1 Apr 2020

Excuse my ignorance, (I'm a more senior member of the human race), but what the hell is ZOOM?

conny · 1 Apr 2020

Before anyone else says it, I know it used to be the name of a lovely lolly ice.

SirGalahad · 1 Apr 2020

conny said:
Excuse my ignorance, (I'm a more senior member of the human race), but what the hell is ZOOM?

A poor web conferencing / video conferencing service that shares your private data faster than a plumber can say cash job over the phone.

Brigadier · 1 Apr 2020

SirGalahad said:
A poor web conferencing / video conferencing service that shares your private data faster than a plumber can say cash job over the phone.

You should be able to give us the inside track on the meetings then

Go on, you know you want to

SirGalahad · 1 Apr 2020

Brigadier said:
You should be able to give us the inside track on the meetings then

Go on, you know you want to

The password is RemoanersLost

ajohn · 1 Apr 2020

SirGalahad said:
The password is RemoanersLost

Actually he was a remainer so why do you think he changed? Better company car maybe?

durhamplumber · 1 Apr 2020

conny said:
Before anyone else says it, I know it used to be the name of a lovely lolly ice.

I always preffered Mivvi....Yum

conny · 1 Apr 2020

durhamplumber said:
I always preffered Mivvi....Yum

Only the orange one. Strawberry was too sickly for me.

securespark · 1 Apr 2020

i remember us kids scoffing a Cornetto the year they came out. IIRC, they were 18p each and my Mum thought it was a rip off!

motorbiking · 1 Apr 2020

SirGalahad said:
A poor web conferencing / video conferencing service that shares your private data faster than a plumber can say cash job over the phone.

rubbish.

the issue is it’s not hosted on the government secure cloud. You will find the tech and engineering behind zoom is up to the job. If you knew anything about them you wouldn’t post this.

the MoD is full of Microsoft fanboys who no doubt would like Teams to be used. The guy who built zoom was the guy behind webex before he sold it to Cisco

SirGalahad · 1 Apr 2020

motorbiking said:
rubbish.

the issue is it’s not hosted on the government secure cloud. You will find the tech and engineering behind zoom is up to the job. If you knew anything about them you wouldn’t post this.

the MoD is full of Microsoft fanboys who no doubt would like Teams to be used. The guy who built zoom was the guy behind webex before he sold it to Cisco

Rubbish ? Lol Think we know which one of us is talking rubbish.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/zoom_vulnerabil.html

Now unless you know more than Schneir about security which I highly doubt.

https://mashable.com/article/zoom-vulnerability-windows-passwords/?europe=true
Zoom security bug lets attackers steal Windows passwords

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/01/zoom_spotlight/

Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all.

https://www.ft.com/content/bdedc70b-e559-489e-bfa0-445b9c882f7b

The letter, first reported and seen by the New York Times, asked Zoom whether it had reviewed its security protections since its surge in popularity, and noted that the app had been slow to address security flaws in the past. “We appreciate the New York attorney-general’s engagement on these issues and are happy to provide her with the requested information,” Zoom said in an emailed statement.

motorbiking said:
I bought some NASDAQ:ZM a while back - I wish I'd bought more. Its no surprise that video conferencing is booming.

Looks like you are a stockholder.

motorbiking · 2 Apr 2020

All software has vulnerabilities from time to time, those issues are old news and have been fixed. And two versions of the same story. The reason it’s not MoD approved is because it’s not running on secure cloud.

If you’ve ever been involved in supplying cloud services to the MoD or government secure services you’d know they won’t allow it in unless it’s secure cloud. That includes mandatory U.K. cleared operations staff.

I held stock briefly. Zoom is rapidly on it’s way to being the no1 in the business and plenty of big corps would rather that didn’t happen. There are big differences between the free version and the enterprise version.

IT Minion · 2 Apr 2020

motorbiking said:
rubbish.

the issue is it’s not hosted on the government secure cloud. You will find the tech and engineering behind zoom is up to the job. If you knew anything about them you wouldn’t post this.

the MoD is full of Microsoft fanboys who no doubt would like Teams to be used. The guy who built zoom was the guy behind webex before he sold it to Cisco

They're all licensed for Teams because they've gone for the MS for other stuff, and it runs out of a UK data center.

It's there, it's paid for and it's secure. So of course they'd want to use it.

But because it's secured it does have more overhead and admin needs than a simple system like zoom.

Bojo on Zoom a day after the MOD banned it

durhamplumber

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