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Re: How save is zoom

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On 20/03/2020 14.45, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
> 
>> Because of the corona virus people want to do things online. The
>> application most organisations want to use is zoom. In the past I
>> needed to use this for a web meeting, but because I needed to install
>> software for this I declined. But our contest from last Saturday was
>> cancelled and they want to do it through zoom and the meetings of our
>> club(s) they also want to do through zoom.
>>
>> But I am a bit reluctant to do things like that. Anyone any idea how
>> save zoom is? Would it be save to use it in a VirtualBox virtual
>> machine?
> 
> I was told that riot could be a good alternative. So I will look into
> that also.
> 

I was just reading my slashdot feed, where I got the following post:

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/IORu8l0N-Bo/school-quits-video-calls-after-naked-man-guessed-the-meeting-link

In this post Zoom was mentioned:

	One expert quoted in the story said some are "looking" for
	links. Last year security researchers told TechCrunch that
	malicious users could access and listen in to Zoom and Webex
	video meetings by cycling through different permutations of
	meeting IDs in bulk. The researchers said the flaw worked
	because many meetings were not protected by a passcode.

so it seems Zoom may not be a good alternative unless you can get 
everyone to use a passcode to protect the video meetings, but I know 
people will be sloppy if they are allowed to choose.


-- 

  //Aho

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How save is zoom Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2020-03-20 08:53 +0100
  Re: How save is zoom "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2020-03-20 10:10 +0100
    Re: How save is zoom Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2020-03-20 14:44 +0100
  Re: How save is zoom Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2020-03-20 14:45 +0100
    Re: How save is zoom "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2020-03-28 14:38 +0100
      Re: How save is zoom Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2020-03-29 18:19 +0300
        Re: How save is zoom "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2020-03-29 20:15 +0200
    Re: How save is zoom "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2020-03-28 21:54 +0100
  Re: How save is zoom "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2020-03-29 20:18 +0200
  Re: How save is zoom "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2020-03-30 09:29 +0300
    Re: How save is zoom "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2020-03-31 21:55 +0200
      Re: How save is zoom "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-01 07:34 +0300
        Re: How save is zoom "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2020-04-01 07:53 +0200

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