Children being “Zoombombed” by Nazi imagery and porn in their own virtual classrooms is not a good look. After Zoom became one of the most popular apps in the world - it currently boasts 300 million meeting participants a day - the company was also beset by numerous reports over its substandard or lax security measures. The company has scrambled lately to fix this and a number of other problems. Zoom now intends to fix that with Keybase’s technology. While text chats within video meetings were encrypted, the video chats themselves were not. The acquisition comes just over a month after Zoom was widely criticized following an Intercept report that revealed that its end-to-end encryption claims weren’t exactly true. The Keybase acquisition seems like a good next move for Zoom. Then, seemingly overnight, a spate of “Zoombombings” and privacy debacles cast it as a sort of villain, and just as quickly, tech giants like Facebook and Google swept in to swallow up Zoom’s customer base with their own competing products.
You might know Zoom as the once-enterprise-focused video chat service that emerged as a hero in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
Zoom did not disclose the terms of the deal, but it could be a bargain if it gets Zoom out of trouble. This is Zoom’s first major acquisition in a campaign to reverse the company’s many security woes. Zoom has bought Keybase, a small New York-based startup that offers various encryption products.
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