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		Animats on Aug 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way t... Why does Zoom need root access at all? That's the elephant in the room here. Zoom should be able to run in a sandbox.

lights0123 on Aug 13, 2022 [–]

To auto-update without requiring authentication every time. Useful for multi-user or enterprise setups where the current user may not have sudo access. Chrome and Firefox do the same thing.

int_19h on Aug 13, 2022 | [–]

If you install per-user, you don't need root to update.

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