Trolls break into meetings on Zoom • Hacker News Board

bilbo0s wrote: post #38

Traster wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not the only security leak in that photo.

Why would his security people allow him to do that? Or do these guys just post this kind of stuff without even running it by their security folks? To me, this sounds like a security 101 type issue.

How would they stop him? Wrestle the phone out of his hands? He's in quarantine, anyway. Nobody is in the room with him.

The current UK PM is not the type to ask experts about whether it's a good idea, anyway.

Re: Trolls break into meetings on Zoom

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Post by vosper » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:29 PM UTC

tqi wrote: post #36

It feels like the tech news cycle is so predictable... Stage 1: This company you probably hadn't heard of before is blowing up / changing the world! Stage 2 (current stage): Actually it turns out this company has some unexpected problems! Stage 3: Actually this company is actively contributing to society's One Big Problem! Stage 4: Actually here is why Zoom actually isn't as bad as everyone thinks! Stage 5: This OTHE…

Facebook must be enjoying getting a few weeks off

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Post by bambataa » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:29 PM UTC

verytrivial wrote: post #17

https://mobile.twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1244985949534... Yes, shared by the Prime Minister, number and all. What a time to be alive.

More importantly, why does Liz Truss have a flagpole in her house?

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Post by dewey » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

Zoom’s CEO says they are going to fix it and change the defaults: https://twitter.com/ericsyuan/status/1245110791772073985?s=2...

Re: Trolls break into meetings on Zoom

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Post by crazygringo » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:34 PM UTC

This is a feature not a bug, to make joining meetings frictionless. (And in videoconferencing there's little distinction between meeting ID and password anyways -- they form a single access credential.)

To prevent unwanted people from joining, the host simply has to turn on the waiting room feature -- where people who have dialed in have to be explicitly accepted by the host, which can be done individually or en masse.

Overall I'd say the system works pretty well.

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Post by bostonvaulter2 » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:35 PM UTC

pjkundert wrote: post #27

I just set up passwords on Zoom rooms for a little room automation project I'm building. There's no drawbacks; you can send out a link that includes the password, so nobody gets left out (no matter how technically challenged). And, someone who "stumbles upon" the room can't just get access. All in all, Zoom has done a lot of things right, given the extremely challenging competitive environment they're in.

Is including the password in the link always enabled? If you're looking at a link is there a way to tell if it has a password or not? I've had issues in the past where people with the link were unable to join since they didn't know the password.

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Post by dragonwriter » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #15

Uehreka wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When your product goes from being "a videoconferencing tool used in some workplaces" to "the primary way people communicate and gather for personal or professional reasons", it makes sense that there will be a lot of stories about it (good, bad and neutral) in the press.

>"the primary way people communicate and gather for personal or professional reasons", I would be curious to see an article about why this happened? Is Zoom better than their countless competitors? They all seem pretty similar in my experience so why is it Zoom that is blowing up because of this and not any of the other companies?

> why is it Zoom that is blowing up because of this and not any of the other companies?

I suspect it seems that way because Zoom was already more aggressively seeking media spotlight as a growth startup, and experiencing more rapid growth in terms of multiples because it had a much smaller install base to start with than established competitors. Also, Zoom is the center of it's company’s business whereas Slack and Webex are just part of a large stable for their respective firms.

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Post by lostgame » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 10:39 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #31

I know it's beside the point, but who are these people heartless enough to break into Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to tell them how good Alchohol is? There isn't even any monetary benefit. Who the heck thinks this is funny?

Bless your innocent soul that has clearly never visited the murky waters of 4chan or worse.

There are literally people on the internet who claim white supremacy, and that the Earth is flat.

There certainly exists similar scum/ignorant idiots who would find this funny.