[TriLUG] Zoom - conferencing

[Michael Rulison via TriLUG]

Dear TriLUGers,

I will stick my neck out and let you correct my understandings:

Zoom insecurity and privacy issues has been overblown, IMO.

Yes, some sessions were hacked into (AFAIK, using emails garnered/stolen 
outside of Zoom).
Some of those sessions involved school kids and perhaps 'inappropriate' 
visual and audio content; that was not nice or kind, but that is the 
world we live in. Protections from crazies ARE needed.

So, AFAIK Zoom allows

  * meeting invitations to persons I select
      o along with a password specific to that meeting
  * a 'waiting room' from which the host may admit to the conference
    only those persons recognized as properly invited persons.
  * the host may mute all persons accepted into the meeting
  * the host may unmute/mute only those he/she chooses.
  * the host may enable/disable screen sharing for him/her self and any
    participant

To me this seems to give adequate security for most 
meetings/conferences. What have I missed?

I have been in a score of Zoom meetings in the past several weeks, using 
Firefox as my browser. There have been frequent problems of participants 
unable to unmute themselves, or use their webcam, or share their screen, 
but these have been lack of knowledge, not software problems.

Some meetings have been from my free account with a limit of 40 minutes 
a session, which Zoom has often graciously not enforced.

I find it very satisfactory, though I want to check Discord and 
BigBlueButton.

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>> You choose the one you want; I choose how my phone treats it.
>> N.B.2: Please do not confuse, a short, pointed email with an epic novel.
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