{"id":12605,"date":"2020-04-26T09:59:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2020-04-26T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T14:59:57","slug":"changes-you-can-make-to-zoom-settings-for-greater-privacy-and-to-block-zoombombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/changes-you-can-make-to-zoom-settings-for-greater-privacy-and-to-block-zoombombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes you can make to Zoom settings for greater privacy and to block Zoombombing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the days of being quarantined due to the coronavirus pandemic, people are using the heck out of internet meeting platforms and the most popular one is Zoom. It&#8217;s now in use by 200 million daily, twenty times more users than it served just three months ago. Zoom provides a solution to one of the most urgent problem on people&#8217;s minds today, communicating. But it has also been discovered that the Zoom platform creates opportunities for exploiting users&#8217; privacy and even for hackers to take over and control meetings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, all is not lost. Zoom quickly began offering enhanced <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/docs\/en-us\/privacy-and-security.html?zcid=3736&amp;creative=430738468990&amp;keyword=zoom%20privacy&amp;matchtype=e&amp;network=g&amp;device=c&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw4pT1BRBUEiwAm5QuR-E6Qi7l8Spaz6QAON3OjfkR9viHPrzBjBq2UsEAOnRWEZ0ZRpPjGRoC1QoQAvD_BwE\">privacy protections<\/a> and promises that more are coming soon.  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/eff\">@EFF<\/a>) is taking a wait and see attitude about promised future changes, but indicates that it is pleased with Zoom&#8217;s response so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Zoom has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zoom.us\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/01\/facts-around-zoom-encryption-for-meetings-webinars\/\">responded<\/a>\u00a0with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/caseynewton\/issues\/zoom-reads-the-room-237685?utm_campaign=Issue&amp;utm_content=view_in_browser&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=The+Interfacehttps:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/caseynewton\/issues\/zoom-reads-the-room-237685\">surprisingly good<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zoom.us\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/01\/a-message-to-our-users\/\">plan for next steps<\/a>, but talk is cheap. Zoom will have to follow through on its security and privacy promises if it wants to regain users\u2019 trust.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the EFF&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2020\/04\/harden-your-zoom-settings-protect-your-privacy-and-avoid-trolls\">recommendations<\/a> for how you can toggle Zoom preferences to make meetings more secure and also to block possible Zoombombing episodes. Zoombombing is when a meeting is crashed by a hacker who takes over and posts graphics nobody wants to see \u2013 like porn, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can trust the EFF as it really is what it claims to be: &#8220;The leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes you can make to Zoom settings for greater privacy and to block Zoombombing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":12606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Changes you can make to Zoom settings for greater privacy and to block Zoombombing #p2","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,2782],"tags":[2785,2783,363,2784],"class_list":["post-12605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-digital-life","category-rights","tag-bombing","tag-online-meetings","tag-privacy","tag-zoom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12609,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions\/12609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}