Greetings, on the librem 15 using purism with a firefox browser = is it possible, functional and reasonably secure to participate in a zoom meeting using this browser
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Have you already researched the company, its history of privacy and security issues, practice of censorship, its founder/CEO, and CTO?
It’s not a platform I personally trust, and it may not be possible for Firefox to fully protect you when using it, although you may be able to mitigate some risk and/or data collection through the use of extensions (NoScript, uBlockOrigin, etc.)… assuming they don’t fully prevent Zoom from running. But then again, the real risk probably lies in the transmitted content of the conversation.
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Possible? Yes.
Easy to get going? I don’t remember, but I don’t think so.
Functional? Yes.
Secure? Data is encrypted in transit.
How secure that encryption is, which parties you’re trying to keep what secure from, etc are all things that depend on context and details.
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Yes it is.
I guess there are two issues.
- Is the content protected against snooping by the operator of the service (man-in-the-middle)? Since you probably don’t know the answer to that, and can’t easily find out, I wouldn’t discuss “national security” over zoom or mention any confidential information but otherwise it’s probably OK. No worse than many alternatives.
- What are the other participants running anyway? If they are all running spyware (e.g. Windows, Android, iOS) then the content / metadata is potentially being shared anyway i.e. the other endpoints are not private so the original question is barely relevant.
I might be inclined to use Chromium rather than Firefox.
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thx for your feedback
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good points, cheers
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they running the gates open system (;
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