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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by Nullabillity on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:05AM (#22791733)
How on earth is it acceptable to force students (who have pretty much no position to argue) to install what is effectively malware?
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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by zulln on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:18AM (#22792036)
You can use Zoom online without installing anything.
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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by igetspam on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:57AM (#22793276)
I tried that the other day and could only get a 403. Is their web portal still active? I ended up just dialing in.
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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by GhostVII on Monday April 06, 2020 @09:44AM (#22793610)
They disabled it temporarily (https://status.zoom.us/incidents/16ll08mmddk6)
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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by Nullabillity on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:26AM (#22792070)
After exhausting all other options. And the malware peddlers are still ultimately getting their payday.
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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by puszczyk on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:23AM (#22791812)
What would you instead?
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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by est31 on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:29AM (#22791836)
NYC could set up a jitsi instance.

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet#quick-start

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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by igetspam on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:59AM (#22793291)
That's what I'm planning. I've been happy enough with jitsi that I'm going to run my own and enforce auth policies.
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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by valuearb on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:19AM (#22793916)
Whatever it is has to be super easy to use.

Source: Father of two teenagers struggling with getting them acclimated to online school right now.

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Re:New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns by pm24601 on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:02PM (#22794842)
https://highfive.com/
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