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Re:‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems by andor on Thursday April 02, 2020 @03:21PM (#22762601)
Real engineering is about compromises.

In this case, relatively short numeric meeting ids allow users to dial in via plain old phone lines. If my meeting guests had to enter a UUID via their phone keypad, they would probably skip the meeting instead.

Re:‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems by shiado on Thursday April 02, 2020 @03:35PM (#22762795)
That actually makes sense I didn't know you could dial in with a phone.