Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws

Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by __s on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:49PM (#22782785)

By having each school's IT setup a separate server

School's have IT. It isn't always competent IT (I speak from experience), but clear instructions from up high can lead it

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by Spooky23 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:55PM (#22782818)

Or, you can flip a switch and enable Zoom, Google, or even Microsoft.

IT people are hammered right now, nobody has time to futz around with some random oss tool that will further stress overutilized remote infrastructure.

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by godelski on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:18PM (#22782966)

While I believe this will work for NYC, I'm not sure how it'll work for Pumpkintown TN

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by Spooky23 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:26PM (#22783000)

Pumpkinland, TN will use Zoom. It’s exponentially easier, except for older kids already using Google Classroom.

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by godelski on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:21PM (#22783492)

That's kinda my point. That the IT in a major city can use a custom system but that discludes a lot of people. I would wager that most schools don't have a decent IT department. I know that when I was in high school they weren't great and I grew up in a fairly affluent area. Not everyone has the ability to "roll their own"

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