Trolls ZoomBomb work-from-home videocall with filth

2020-03-20 16:37

Well, hang on to your hats, hosts: before you set up meetings, you need to know how to block the trolls.

As TechCrunch reports, on Tuesday, WFH Happy Hour - a popular daily public Zoom call hosted by The Verge reporter Casey Newton and investor Hunter Walk - got ZoomBombed.

The host does not need to grant screen share access for another participant to share their screen.

"By default?" To avoid this kind of horror show, the setting should really be "Screensharing only with moderator permission." Be that as it may, hosts can disable the option in settings, pre-meeting, by changing screensharing to "Host Only." Otherwise, during the meeting, hosts can turn on that setting as soon as they see that the screensharing feature is being abused.

Disable "Join Before Host" so people can't cause trouble before you arrive.

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