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The dangers of video chat

Video chat has become a way of life for many people stuck at home in the last couple of months. There has been an explosion in the use of video conferencing services: popular video chat service Zoom, for example, went from 10 million daily users to over 300 million. But that growth has highlighted some of the major flaws in video conferencing tools - flaws that people may not be widely aware of.

The biggest issue comes with multi-party video chats, a scenario in which true security is very hard to implement. One-to-one video chats are easy enough to properly secure, and many video chat solutions do offer end-to-end encryption on two person video chats. It’s

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