Don't install #Zoom on #GNU/Linux - this is how to use the web client if you have absolutely no choice.

Over the past few weeks, #Zoom's use has exploded since it became the video conferencing platform of choice in today's COVID-19 world. (My own university, Harvard, uses it for all of its classes. Boris Johnson had a cabinet meeting over Zoom.) Over that same period, the company has been exposed for having both lousy privacy and lousy security. My goal here is to summarize all of the problems and talk about solutions and workarounds.

In general, Zoom's problems fall into three broad buckets: (1) bad #privacy practices, (2) bad #security practices, and (3) bad user configurations.