Coronavirus: Zoom is in everyone's living room - how safe is it?

[Thesauron]

56 minutes ago, Qapla said:

We should not be paranoid about Zoom not being "secure". There is nothing secret about our meetings ... before the pandemic we were inviting the public to our meetings.

Not paranoid, but aware so we can adjust accordingly. It’s not the meetings that are secret, it is our brothers and sisters that are precious.

[Qapla]

I'm sure if there was a safety problem ... the Branch would instruct us to stop using Zoom (or any other app they have instructed us to use) and direct us to an alternative - they have not done so.

[Thesauron]

What You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis

[EccentricM]

On 4/2/2020 at 10:49 PM, Beggar for the Spirit said:

A brother just sent me a video clip, what was it?

It was a recording of a Zoom WT meeting where on the person's screen it showed the multiple small camera views of various brothers/sisters watching the meeting in their home, but this video focused on 1 sister who was walking around getting a bottle of wine and then pouring some wine and drinking it during the meeting. I think this Zoom video may have been manipulated somehow. Or maybe somebody uninvited "crashed the party" by sneaking onto that congregation's Zoom meeting and did this purposefully and recorded the video with the purpose of sending this video out on social media to mock us. Then when some brothers/sisters see it and are shocked by believing that this really happened, a "sister" drinking wine right on video during the meeting, they then send it to their friends? 

But when I mentioned these possibilities to the brother who sent it to me, he believes it to be real and that it shows how some are just too relaxed at the meeting.  Hopefully this video does not keep being spread. 

Could easily be apostasy. Both the person doing that, or the person recording and sharing the video. Could just be mental health issues too when it came to the drinking, though. But whoever did the public sharing, that's someone to watch out for, for sure.

Edited April 4, 2020 by EccentricM

[Beggar for the Spirit]

31 minutes ago, EccentricM said:

Could easily be apostasy. Both the person doing that, or the person recording and sharing the video. Could just be mental health issues too when it came to the drinking, though. But whoever did the public sharing, that's someone to watch out for, for sure.

HI Matthew, 

Yes,  I believe it is someone trying to mock our Zoom meetings. But some of the brothers/sisters seeing these videos believe that these are real, that our brothers/sisters are doing crazy, unspiritual things on the Zoom meetings. If these were real, why would the other "normal" brothers/sisters record it and put it out on social media?  I just received another text about 20min ago from a sister where her friend/a sister saw a picture on social media of an informal/social Zoom meeting(apparently a congregation or group) where 1 of the camera views shows a guy in his t-shirt and he put as his name, "Chris the Hotty". Really?

 

I find it much more believable that an apostate is setting this up rather than a brother or sister is having mental health issues or just some brothers/sister are too relaxed on Zoom(as this sister who sent it to me believes). I can imagine a group of apostates deciding to create their own "fake" Zoom meetings in order to make fun or mock our meetings, putting these on social media as though such crazy things are happening at our real Zoom meetings.   

Edited April 4, 2020 by Beggar for the Spirit

[pnutts]

Cnet has link about zoombombing  hopefully the link works. Got from my gmail account and it isn't working well. Too much net traffic.

http://enews.cnet.com/ct/54801143:Wps4i5vND:m:1:2227617243:83BE5A6DDB3874EE3FE5A232F709C116:r:29186911741810334546665520370907

 

Zoom settings you should change now

There are some easy settings you can change before your Zoom meeting begins that will allow you to reduce the likelihood of intrusion by uninvited guests, and generally bolster your privacy overall. 

1. Don't use your Personal Meeting ID for the meeting. Instead, use a per-meeting ID, exclusive to a single meeting. Zoom's support page offers a video walk-through on how to generate a random meeting ID for extra security.

2. Enable the "Waiting Room" feature so that you can see who is attempting to join the meeting before allowing them access. Like many other privacy functions, a skillful disrupter can sometimes bypass this control, but it helps to put another hurdle in their route to chaos. 

Zoom offers a support article here as well. To enable the Waiting Room feature, go to Account Management > Account Settings. Click on Meeting, then click Waiting Room to enable the setting. 

Edited April 4, 2020 by pnutts
got link to work partial quote

[Thesauron]

Singapore stops teachers using Zoom app after 'very serious incidents'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-comm-privacy-singapore/singapore-stops-teachers-using-zoom-app-after-very-serious-incidents-idUSKCN21S0AH

[Dages]

1 hour ago, Thesauron said:

Singapore stops teachers using Zoom app after 'very serious incidents'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-comm-privacy-singapore/singapore-stops-teachers-using-zoom-app-after-very-serious-incidents-idUSKCN21S0AH

Maybe the password wasn't too hard to find.

As everyone mic is off during our meeting, we don't have the risk that an naked apostate would barge in and scream slurs... also, co hosts would be able to switch his cam off very quickly.

[Thesauron]

500,000 Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web
 

https://mashable.com/article/zoom-500000-accounts-dark-web/?europe=true