
A recently published report on the Zoom conferencing application for Macs underscores why this practice makes sense. If the webcam is covered by tape or a sticker, they likely are.

One of the easiest ways to tell if someone is a practitioner of computer security is to look at their laptop. What follows is the story as it ran earlier:


"Initially, we did not see the Web server or video-on posture as significant risks to our customers and, in fact, felt that these were essential to our seamless join process," Zoom's Jonathan Farley wrote. Update 7:23pm ET: As this post was being reported, Zoom developers reversed their previous position and issued an update that changes the contested behavior.
