5 things you can do today to make Zooming safer

2020-04-03 15:46

Work still means meetings, and meetings still mean people.

With the coronavirus pandemic having caused many countries to define a "Group" as a maximum of two people, and prohibiting people from meeting up face-to-face anyway, even with friends and family, then meeting with people means an online meeting.

If you suddenly find yourself "On hold until the organiser starts the meeting" when in the past you would have spent the time chatting to your colleagues and getting the smalltalk over with, don't complain - those pre-meeting meetings are great for socialising but they do make it harder to control the meeting.

We know lots of Zoom users who memorised their own personal meeting ID long ago and have fallen into the habit of using it for every meeting they hold - even back-to-back meetings with different groups.

We recommend using a randomly generated meeting ID, or setting a password on any meetings using your personal ID that are not explicitly open to all.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/04/03/5-things-you-can-do-today-to-make-zooming-safer/