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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by viraptor on Saturday April 04, 2020 @08:59PM (#22782843)
> It's incredibly straightforward to prevent zoombombing, you simply set a password on your room

The password is the same for everyone. Are you seriously saying that kids won't share the link/password online themselves as pranks? This reduces the risk from "anyone can join" to "anyone with password can join". The waiting rooms helped at least, but the passwords reduce, not stop, zoombombing.

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by deminature on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:12PM (#22782933)
Isn't that a problem with any video conferencing service then, if the credentials to enter are shared by participants?
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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by viraptor on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:22PM (#22782979)
Google meet used with gsuite will by default prevent anyone from outside the company domain to join the meeting (unless explicitly invited) for example. I've joined some webinars where the password was per-user, (so you can kick/ban that one user) but can't remember the service.

But yes, that was my point - shared passwords don't prevent conference-bombing on any service.

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Re:Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and... by closeparen on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:37AM (#22791599)
So will Zoom, on a corporate account.
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