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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by ehsankia on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:13PM (#22743275)
Does Zoom let you put a password on the room? Could that room have a password that is only known to the participants?
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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by zulln on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:17PM (#22743316)
Yes, and it did (according to somewhere else on the internet).
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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by afandian on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:17PM (#22743313)
Yes and (in my experience) it displays it at the top of the screen!
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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by buboard on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:52PM (#22743639)
no, but it gives the host the link to share WITH the password, so people sharing the link also share the password (encoded)
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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by afandian on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:03PM (#22743716)
Ah, I suspected it was something like that.
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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by jpdus on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @08:23PM (#22744345)
This is an optional setting.
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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by lancewiggs on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @08:54PM (#22744548)
It was made the default a few weeks ago
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