Zoom lied about using end-to-end encryption and is lightly spanked by the FTC

Announced on Monday, a settlement between video conferencing app Zoom and the FTC revealed that since 2016, Zoom had been lying about providing 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to protect the security of users' communication. The truth was that Zoom was actually giving users a lower level of security. , "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised."

Zoom, FTC reach settlement after Zoom is caught in a big lie over encryption

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