Other applications do exist and they're bad from a usability perspective.
Google hangouts maxes out my CPU.
Teams is a horrible electron app which I'm loathe to use.
So the negatives are that it's unencrypted, traffic might be routed through China sometimes and unknown participants can join if they have the meeting link with password.
For the majority of people they're not too bothered.
I'd argue that security is about having an understanding of the risk and mitigating it accordingly. And for a lot of cases zoom is fine.
Other applications do exist and they're bad from a usability perspective.
Google hangouts maxes out my CPU. Teams is a horrible electron app which I'm loathe to use.
So the negatives are that it's unencrypted, traffic might be routed through China sometimes and unknown participants can join if they have the meeting link with password.
For the majority of people they're not too bothered.
I'd argue that security is about having an understanding of the risk and mitigating it accordingly. And for a lot of cases zoom is fine.