This is not "slightly" dishonest on Zoom's part. It is dishonest.
Edit: now that the title has been modified, I feel I need to add back context. Zoom claims to support end-to-end encryption when it doesn't. That is dishonest.
Edit: now that the title has been modified, I feel I need to add back context. Zoom claims to support end-to-end encryption when it doesn't. That is dishonest.
Secure and reliable
End-to-end 256-bit AES encryption, data sovereignty, and role-based access control"
Right on the front page. So, it would seem dishonest, yes.
Not excusing Zoom here—they should know better.
If you think about it for hosted services that provide non-trivial functions for your data, you'd see the definition of e2e we apply to messenging apps would never apply.