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In a major security U-turn, videoconferencing platform Zoom <\/a> has said it will, after all, offer end-to-end encryption to all users — including those who do not pay to use its service.<\/p>\n The caveat is that free users must provide certain “additional” pieces of information for verification purposes (such as a phone number where they can respond to a verification link) before being allowed to use e2e encryption — which Zoom says is a necessary check so it can “prevent and fight abuse” on its platform. However it’s a major step up from the prior offer of ‘no e2e unless you pay us<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n “We are grateful to those who have provided their input on our E2EE design, both technical and philosophical,” Zoom writes in a blog update<\/a> today. “We encourage everyone to continue to share their views throughout this complex, ongoing process.”<\/p>\n The company faced a storm of criticism<\/a> earlier this month after Bloomberg<\/a> reported comments by CEO Eric Yuan, who said it did not intend to provide e2e encryption for non-paying users because it wanted to be able to work with law enforcement.<\/p>\n Security and privacy experts waded it to blast the stance. One notable critic of the position was cryptography expert, Matthew Green — whose name you’ll find listed on Zoom’s e2e encryption design white paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Once the precedent is set that E2E encryption is too ‘dangerous’ to hand to the masses, the genie is out of the bottle. And once corporate America accepts that private communications are too politically risky to deploy, it’s going to be hard to put it back,” Green warned<\/a> in a nuanced Twitter thread.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
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