<story><title>Cisco: Magic WebEx URL Allows Arbitrary Remote Command Execution</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1096</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andmarios</author><text>WebEx is the worst conferencing software I&amp;#x27;ve used.
Their Linux support is worst than non-existant. If it were non-existant that would be it, life could go on. But no, they provide a java applet that runs only from firefox, that it&amp;#x27;s impossible to use audio because they are still at 32bit, that claims to share one application and instead shares your whole screen (and only if you are lucky and someone tells you, you&amp;#x27;ll ever know), that occasionally (like one hour before an important meeting) they release a version with bad manifests and the applet refuses to download its components.&lt;p&gt;Even their Android client can&amp;#x27;t manage the mic volume properly and people can&amp;#x27;t hear you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phillc73</author><text>I was asked to join a call yesterday using appear.in[1]. Having never used this service before, I feared the worst and accessed the invitation link a good 20 minutes before the call was due to start.&lt;p&gt;Using Chromium on Debian, everything worked absolutely smoothly. No further install requested. Audio quality was great. My video picture looked a bit grainy to me, but the other participant appeared very clear on my end.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re using WebRTC[2], which excludes Explorer and Safari, but covers recent versions of just about everything else.&lt;p&gt;After poor experiences using Skype, Webex and Hangouts, I was very pleasantly surprised by appear.in&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;appear.in&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;appear.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.appear.in&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;94-who-can-use-appear-in&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.appear.in&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;94-who-can-use-appear-in&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Cisco: Magic WebEx URL Allows Arbitrary Remote Command Execution</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1096</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andmarios</author><text>WebEx is the worst conferencing software I&amp;#x27;ve used.
Their Linux support is worst than non-existant. If it were non-existant that would be it, life could go on. But no, they provide a java applet that runs only from firefox, that it&amp;#x27;s impossible to use audio because they are still at 32bit, that claims to share one application and instead shares your whole screen (and only if you are lucky and someone tells you, you&amp;#x27;ll ever know), that occasionally (like one hour before an important meeting) they release a version with bad manifests and the applet refuses to download its components.&lt;p&gt;Even their Android client can&amp;#x27;t manage the mic volume properly and people can&amp;#x27;t hear you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terrywang</author><text>WebEx is not the worst but definitely among those which are considered the worst;-)&lt;p&gt;Currently my company uses Hangouts, BlueJeans, Zoom, and WebEx - don&amp;#x27;t know why there is no decision made.&lt;p&gt;In this context it is the worse - I tried to run it on Linux, like you said now that chrome support is gone, I can only launch the Java (swing - not Java applet for sure) UI via Firefox, end up with crappy slow GUI, no ability for screen sharing &amp;amp; viewing, no audio, utterly useless.&lt;p&gt;On Linux, web conferencing services that provide a lite (feature rich) version like BlueJeans and GoToMeeting (chrome extension and&amp;#x2F;or web version) are pleasant to use.&lt;p&gt;I personally prefer to use Hangouts if no such pure web version is available although Hangouts seems to have lost its gravity…</text></comment>