Keep in mind, these are not sufficient for sensitive professional meetings. But if you just want to cut down on trolls and have a little more control of your WFH/ life from home space, here are some tweaks.
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
How to keep your Zoom chats private and secure
Keep in mind, these are not sufficient for sensitive professional meetings. But if you just want to cut down on trolls and have a little more control of your WFH/ life from home space, here are some tweaks.
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I have not experienced ‘Zoombombing’ in any of my classes so far - and my only thought on this is that - the trolls really must have nothing to do anymore. Why would you want to come into meetings and class lectures? Quarantine must have hit you very hard. The disturbing images I’ve heard that have been shared via zoom are actually quite a scary element that unfortunately is a possibility for anyone who uses the platform. While I find changing my Zoom backgrounds to different Ratatouille screenshots entertaining, I realize that it can easily be used for something not as dumb. I understand why the article encourages hosts to randomly generate zoom id’s for every meeting - because that way no one who isn’t invited can catch on. Except, as a student, having a constant Zoom ID is very easy for me in terms of login. It would be interesting to hear from Zoom about how they would update their software to make it more secure.
It is strange how dependent we have all become of this one platform that was unheard of a month ago. Zoom is basically what is keeping all the universities, some jobs, and what people depend on for face to face interaction now alive. Honestly, I was surprised that when Carnegie Mellon decided to have classes on Zoom along with every other college in the United States that it didn't shut down from so many people being on the same website/platform at one time. It is upsetting that I am required to be on this site where their security and privacy options aren't as airtight as they should be to have most universities use them. It is good to try to prevent as much of this eavesdropping as possible though. There has been a lot of recent updates from the Zoom application so hopefully they are fixing this issue. I am sure they have been some of the busiest employees (other than nurses, Doctors, and others working in hospitals at the moment) to make their platform useable for all the new accounts it is currently supporting.
Like Elizabeth, I have not experienced any of this zoombombing which is good. I had no idea that it was happening this much. My first thought was mostly why are people doing this. But then like, why do people do any of the things they do, I don’t know that’s a deeper question. A major problem that I have heard with this happening is that people are releasing recordings or transcripts of private therapy sessions that were happening over zoom. When everything started moving online, a lot of people were finding out about zoom for the first time and realizing that it is very useful for a lot of things. But it just doesn’t look like zoom was created to be a super secure platform. Which is a good thing to know. It is good that there are all of these different steps that can be taken to try to minimize the trolls from entering the rooms, I hope they are able to stop enough of this that people will get bored and stop trying to enter random rooms or share other people’s information.
Along with most of the people using zoom nowadays, I am completely new to the group video chatting system and I had no idea that it had all of these features. We haven't had any "zoombombers" in any of our class meetings, but I can understand how that could become an issue when meeting about certain topics where sensitive information might be discussed. I think that this is an important article for professors, bosses, or anyone hosting a meeting to read as it can really bring to light the, for lack of a better term, power that a zoom host can have. One thing that I did have previous knowledge of before reading this article was the fact that hosts can receive a copy of the zoom messages once the meeting has concluded including private messages throughout the session. This is something that I think everybody should be aware of because I don't think many people have that in mind when they're joking around about the class in the middle of the session. I do think that zoom does really well with handling the number of people that are on it every day. I personally have no problem with it other than the fact that it does drive me a bit crazy staring at a screen all day when I would much rather sit in a classroom in person.
Statistically, it is said that a factor that affects one’s lifetime earnings the most is the year of one’s birth. If you look at the average, the year you start job hunting, in other words, the year you finish your study matters a lot, and that is all about the economic climate. It is scary, especially for people in our age who haven’t experienced world wars or other great impacts by the financial crisis, to think about how a global emergency can change our lives. All of my friends in Japan are now in the middle of job seeking. Seniors usually get offers from April to June, but many companies are postponing the decision due to the difficulty in interviews and of course the financial instability. My friends are very stressed, and so as students who would start job seeking next year. We say that we are entering the employment “ice age.” Although the only thing we can do is to do our best, the fact that we don’t see an end to this situation expands our anxiety about the future.
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