

How can the board have a legal meeting using an inexpensive platform and make this work? - L.O., Nipomo. For now, anyone who wants to speak to the board must show up in the community room. Our manager said the only company that can do what we are asking for is expensive. If the board is in the community room and many of us are watching from home, there is no way that people watching virtually can raise their hand and verbally speak to the board or even type a question into the chat. Now that we are able to have in-person board meetings, we have the following situation. You can contact Zoom directly to have your ID changed if you’ve already shared it on a public forum.Q: During the Covid shutdown, the board used Zoom to hold meetings. There is also the option of using a one-time meeting ID when you schedule meetings in the future. You also have a personal meeting ID attached to your Zoom account, which the company recommends you do not share publicly as it is linked to what is essentially a permanent virtual meeting room. Virtual waiting rooms have been created, where the host will have the option to grant access to the waiting person. Since zoom-bombing incidents have increased, Zoom has set all meetings to private by default, with passwords required. You can also set your Zoom meeting to private and require attendees to enter a password. Zoom has a detailed guide on keeping meetings safe but stresses that you shouldn’t share meeting links publicly. It’s all about better cyber-security practice, rather than an actual issue with the app. There are also reports of specific Reddit forums where meeting IDs are posted – those have now been banned by Reddit according to Fortune.

If public meeting links are posted onto social media forums, say in Facebook groups, hackers can easily find them. Typically, zoom-bombings happen in public meetings, which can be accessed by anyone using the correct link. In some examples, hackers have shouted abuse or racial slurs or have put disturbing images on their video feed. For example, there have been reports of groups or individuals zoom-bombing Alcoholic Anonymous meetings and high-level government gatherings. While for some, zoom-bombing is a silly prank, it has resulted in more serious invasions of privacy. It has been increasingly prevalent in the US, in particular. Zoom-bombing is when someone hacks into a meeting and appears on the screen uninvited. The phenomenon, known as ‘zoom-bombing’, has come to attention since downloads of the video-conferencing app skyrocketed amid the coronavirus crisis.

Zoom has announced new security measures to prevent strangers entering publicly shared video calls, it was announced this weekend.
