On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 02:23:04PM +0100, ael wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 06:52:06AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > For me security refers primarily to file access. This takes me back to
> > my question. If I craete a new user, named zoom for example, and have
> > it run zoom, won't that limit access files on my HD?
>
> One hopes so. But I had to install the zoom deb package via root.
> Since it is closed source, who knows what the package might do?

Actually zoom does offer a tarball for download, so that can be checked
and so is safer than a closed deb.

ael