Zoom, itself, is just an application which provides the service of web chat for companies.
It's entirely built on and around the internet.
In normal internet communications, (like you accessing .win), information is transmitted through the shortest available route.
Sometimes internet traffic means that bits, (or sections) of the information gets sent through different routes. ( i.e. you live on the east coast, and while accessing a site that's hosted in California part of the information goes through Texas, while another part goes through Chicago due to traffic)
Routers have protocols which identify where the destination of information is suppose to go and chooses the quickest path available.
So for an entire datastream to 'mistakenly' get routed to China is a bit unbelievable.
Especially for video communications which travels by UDP. (UDP is a protocol which just indiscriminately sends information, as opposed to TCP which the receiving computer asks for confirmation of the package. This is why services like Netflix and Youtube, which use UDP, can sometimes skip sections if the packages weren't delivered correctly. Webpages use TCP because it needs the entire package in order to be viewed. UDP is designed to be faster since it doesn't need confirmation, so sending data packets out of the country is against normal router protocol and entirely defeats the purpose of a faster data transmission which doesn't require receiver confirmation)
TLDR
The Zoom Application probably has code which forces internet traffic to travel through China.
I doubt zoom is using client-server model. It's probably peer-to-peer with one of those peers being zoom. So traffic would be delivered just like normal. But, one of those peers would also be Zoom.
Zoom does allow you to store recordings of meetings on Zoom severs. So, Zoom just records a copy no matter what, and ships that's recording to their Chinese overlords. It's just made up bullshit that Zoom accidentally routed traffic through China.
DO NOT USE ZOOM
We cannot cheapen R&D by having people eavesdrop on hard work. R&D must thrive so we can develop the emerging technologies of the future.
Zoom, itself, is just an application which provides the service of web chat for companies.
It's entirely built on and around the internet.
In normal internet communications, (like you accessing .win), information is transmitted through the shortest available route.
Sometimes internet traffic means that bits, (or sections) of the information gets sent through different routes. ( i.e. you live on the east coast, and while accessing a site that's hosted in California part of the information goes through Texas, while another part goes through Chicago due to traffic)
Routers have protocols which identify where the destination of information is suppose to go and chooses the quickest path available.
So for an entire datastream to 'mistakenly' get routed to China is a bit unbelievable.
Especially for video communications which travels by UDP. (UDP is a protocol which just indiscriminately sends information, as opposed to TCP which the receiving computer asks for confirmation of the package. This is why services like Netflix and Youtube, which use UDP, can sometimes skip sections if the packages weren't delivered correctly. Webpages use TCP because it needs the entire package in order to be viewed. UDP is designed to be faster since it doesn't need confirmation, so sending data packets out of the country is against normal router protocol and entirely defeats the purpose of a faster data transmission which doesn't require receiver confirmation)
TLDR
The Zoom Application probably has code which forces internet traffic to travel through China.
This is not a mistake.
I doubt zoom is using client-server model. It's probably peer-to-peer with one of those peers being zoom. So traffic would be delivered just like normal. But, one of those peers would also be Zoom.
Zoom does allow you to store recordings of meetings on Zoom severs. So, Zoom just records a copy no matter what, and ships that's recording to their Chinese overlords. It's just made up bullshit that Zoom accidentally routed traffic through China.
Absolutely right though, not a mistake.
This is what a large number of schools are using for their Remote Learning.
ZOOM ingratiates itself to China by offering free intel.