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Zoom Data Scandal Shows Blockchain May Be the Future of Communications

As people around the world started following shelter-in-place orders, popular video conferencing platform Zoom quickly gained new users, noting in a recent blog post that it had reached more than 200 million daily users last month, up from 10 million in December. From virtual conferences to online birthday parties, thousands of individuals have flocked to Zoom in an attempt to remain social at a time when social gatherings are banned.Yet, while Zoom may have seemed like the perfect alternative to in-person gatherings, a major security flaw has been lurking in

Vonage Co-Founder Launches Decentralized Videochat App to Battle Zoom

Jeff Pulver, a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) pioneer and the co-founder of Vonage, has launched a decentralized application (dApp) that claims to provide the “most secure end-to-end business communications network” available.The move follows reports last week that rival videochat app Zoom exposed personally identifiable information and private conversations on the open web.Centralized data storage provides a centralized point of failureAccording to Pulver, the problem with existing communication solutions is that they route all business and personal data through one central point. This creates a huge security threat to confidential