{"id":40688,"date":"2020-04-02T15:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=01e26de00c3777dea5da265a0cb4a660"},"modified":"2020-04-02T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:11:47","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-bans-zoom-over-security-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/elon-musks-spacex-bans-zoom-over-security-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s SpaceX bans Zoom over security fears"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has banned its employees from using video conferencing app\u00a0Zoom<\/a>, citing concerns over the app\u2019s ability to keep users secure.<\/span><\/p>\n

A similar ban has been issued by one of\u00a0SpaceX\u2019s biggest customers, NASA, coming into\u00a0force after\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>FBI\u00a0issued a warning about \u201cZoom-bombing\u201d<\/a>\u00a0– hackers disrupting video conferences with threatening language, hate speech and pornographic images.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zoom has previously admitted\u00a0<\/a>that\u00a0<\/span>it is\u00a0“currently not possible” to enable end-to-end encryption for its video meetings.<\/p>\n

In an email seen by\u00a0<\/span>Reuters<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, SpaceX informed its staff that all access to Zoom had been disabled with immediate effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that many of us were using this tool for conferences and meeting support,\u201d the message read. \u201cPlease use email, text or phone as alternate means of communication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not known whether the ban also extends to Tesla, which is also owned by SpaceX CEO\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>. The company was unable to respond\u00a0to requests for comment at the time of publication.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zoom has surged to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>more than 200 million daily meeting participants<\/a>\u00a0after employees around the world were asked to work from home\u00a0to slow the pace of the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. On 5 March,\u00a0<\/span>Slack<\/a>, Facebook, and Microsoft had all advised their employees to work remotely following the spread of the virus to the west coast of the United States. Over the course of the month, most tech giants had closed their offices, shifting all employee communications online.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite numerous security warnings, prime minister Boris Johnson is known to be using Zoom to hold cabinet video conferences. He was recently criticised for sharing a picture on Twitter in which a Zoom meeting ID was clearly visible.<\/span><\/p>\n

A government spokesperson defended the PM, telling\u00a0<\/span>BBC News<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday that \u201cin the current unprecedented circumstances, the need for effective channels of communication is vital\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The news comes days after\u00a0<\/span>a class-action lawsuit was filed against Zoom<\/a>, the compliant alleging the service illegally shared user data with Facebook. Zoom\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>founder and CEO, Eric S. Yuan, announced over a\u00a0<\/span>blog post<\/a>\u00a0that over the next three months, the company will work to\u00a0<\/span>\u201cbetter identify, address, and fix issues proactively\u201d.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

2 Apr, 2020 <\/p>\n

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has banned its employees from using video conferencing app\u00a0Zoom, citing concerns over the app\u2019s ability to keep users secure.
\nA similar ban has been issued by one of\u00a0SpaceX\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40689,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688\/revisions\/40689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}