Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
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Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#2> Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID
A meeting id with a password is semantically the same as a longer meeting id (or a meeting id with a character space larger than just digits). I wish they'd do that instead (make meeting ids longer) so I could continue to enter my company meetings with only a link but not have to worry about getting wardialed.
Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#3> Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID A meeting id with a password is semantically the same as a longer meeting id (or a meeting id with a character space larger than just digits). I wish they'd do that instead (make meeting ids longer) so I could continue to enter my company meetings with only a link but not have to worry about getting wardialed.
you can put the password in the link.
Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#4I work for a large multi-national media company, and we've been using BlueJeans for video conferencing for the last few years. It's been very reliable, but I haven't heard of very many others using BlueJeans. I'm curious if the security issues in Zoom vs its competitors more have to do with the amount of people using it and putting eyes on it.
Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#5> Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID A meeting id with a password is semantically the same as a longer meeting id (or a meeting id with a character space larger than just digits). I wish they'd do that instead (make meeting ids longer) so I could continue to enter my company meetings with only a link but not have to worry about getting wardialed.
Except the search space is much, much, larger.
Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#6I work for a large multi-national media company, and we've been using BlueJeans for video conferencing for the last few years. It's been very reliable, but I haven't heard of very many others using BlueJeans. I'm curious if the security issues in Zoom vs its competitors more have to do with the amount of people using it and putting eyes on it.
> I haven't heard of very many others using BlueJeans
I'd think more eyes on Zoom right now will be better for it in the long run. Anecdotally, security aside, I've found Zoom to be about one step ahead of BlueJeans in pretty much every way.
Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#7I work for a large multi-national media company, and we've been using BlueJeans for video conferencing for the last few years. It's been very reliable, but I haven't heard of very many others using BlueJeans. I'm curious if the security issues in Zoom vs its competitors more have to do with the amount of people using it and putting eyes on it.
I've used BlueJeans extensively and I completely agree. I believe that it doesn't have a free tier though and this limits its adoption.
I also do not believe that it claims to have E2E encryption or anything like that.
Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#8Except waiting rooms have a separate security problem https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...
Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#9I work for a large multi-national media company, and we've been using BlueJeans for video conferencing for the last few years. It's been very reliable, but I haven't heard of very many others using BlueJeans. I'm curious if the security issues in Zoom vs its competitors more have to do with the amount of people using it and putting eyes on it.
I was sent a link for them about a month ago. On Mojave the app kept crashing. I couldn't figure out how to join via the browser, so we switched to zoom.
Re: Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing
#10Hopefully they do this for existing users as well. One of my fellow teachers' classes got bombed today even after we were all sent instructions about securing our meetings, enabling waiting rooms, etc.
She didn't follow the recommendation because she "didn't think someone would join" because she hadn't posted the meeting link on social media. You have you protect your users that won't protect themselves.