Zoom is entirely banned at the two companies that are my day job, and probably 90% of partners. If you do any work adjacent to anything that's ITAR controlled you should also not be surprised to see the same policy from partner companies. This has been in place for quite some time since the initial security problem that was so egregiously bad apple had to resort to using the malware removal tool to remove zoom's binaries from Macos clients.
Entirely aside from their many past security holes which have been handled poorly , they have straight up lied about end to end crypto and what exact crypto it's using. That's before we get into the ownership of the company, its management and the location of most of the developers.
I use the zoom web client, never the desktop app. I prefer everything to be via the browser since it provides good sandboxing.
Up until we have good sandboxing mechanisms via OS's - it will be the browser for me.
I think we're a bit naive in the west and most often assume good faith from certain other business cultures. We're not used to companies that engage in calculated perfidy that have their sorry prepared long before you've discovered the problem. To put another way, "It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission", or to beat around the bush even more: I disagree with Hanlon's razor.
this was the case here too, but just yesterday got on a usaf hosted zoom that said 'gov' and hosted in CONUS so they seem to have some offering at least DoD is ok with now, appears to only be fedramp
I don't like it but Zoom is soooo much better than Webex when I'm doing remote desktop support (those are the only options we're allowed). With webex the lag is awful amd makes it difficult to type, especially in a terminal, and the interface takes up so much space around the screen being shared for useless crap.
Entirely aside from their many past security holes which have been handled poorly , they have straight up lied about end to end crypto and what exact crypto it's using. That's before we get into the ownership of the company, its management and the location of most of the developers.