On: Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malici...

[ancorevard]

How to protect yourself:

"Disable the ability for Zoom to turn on your webcam when joining a meeting."

It's under Settings->Video in Zoom, check "Turn off my video when joining a meeting".

[LynxInLA → ancorevard]

What if you have uninstalled Zoom? It seems that it leaves a web server on your machine that will re-install Zoom if it receives a request to join a meeting.

[tambourine_man → LynxInLA]

Really? That’s nuts. Makes you appreciate the iOS app model a bit more.

Everything sandboxed, delete an app and all traces of it are gone.

[Razengan → tambourine_man]

macOS is gradually adopting that starting with Catalina, e.g. System Extensions (that will replace Kernel Extensions) and DriverKit drivers too I assume, are installed with app bundles and uninstalled when the app is trashed.

[saagarjha → Razengan]

Unfortunately neither of those would help in this case.

[robenkleene → saagarjha]

As far as I can tell you can't fix this and still be able to do web development on the same machine.