1. Pre-COVID Zoom claims it has E2E encryption for everyone.
2. During COVID Zoom grows in popularity, which prompts journalists to learn that the claims that Zoom has E2E encryption are inaccurate.
3. Zoom admits that it never had true E2E encryption, but announces they will develop it and it will only be available for paying customers.
4. Zoom gets another wave of criticism for restricting its new E2E encryption service so it walks back to its original message that all accounts get E2E encryption.
Given their track record I’d expect this timeline to repeat itself so after they release this E2E encryption feature, security researchers will discover that it’s not true E2E encryption again.
1. Pre-COVID Zoom claims it has E2E encryption for everyone.
2. During COVID Zoom grows in popularity, which prompts journalists to learn that the claims that Zoom has E2E encryption are inaccurate.
3. Zoom admits that it never had true E2E encryption, but announces they will develop it and it will only be available for paying customers.
4. Zoom gets another wave of criticism for restricting its new E2E encryption service so it walks back to its original message that all accounts get E2E encryption.
Given their track record I’d expect this timeline to repeat itself so after they release this E2E encryption feature, security researchers will discover that it’s not true E2E encryption again.