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Re:Zoom.us had a 700M visitor spike last month by mistersquid on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:33AM (#22804142)
> I know more than a few elementary school teachers who are now hosting zoom classes with 15+ 5 year olds on a call.

Given the ease of setup of Zoom which defaulted to a machine-guessable URL which displayed email and other information about participants, this is one reason Zoom is rightly being scrutinized and criticized for poor security.

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Re:Zoom.us had a 700M visitor spike last month by stri8ed on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:50AM (#22804302)
> Zoom which defaulted to a machine-guessable URL

Was there any rational for them doing this?

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Re:Zoom.us had a 700M visitor spike last month by organsnyder on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:16PM (#22804556)
Zoom has clearly focused on UX above all else. This explains both their popularity and the security issues that have recently been uncovered.
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Re:Zoom.us had a 700M visitor spike last month by taf2 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:55AM (#22804349)
First thing that comes to my mind is: a friendly URL in a email body that doesn't get clipped or mangled in such away that it can't be easily opened.
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Re:Zoom.us had a 700M visitor spike last month by martin_a on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:00PM (#22804396)
Ease of use, probably.

Now every private room is by default secured with a password, I think.

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Re:Zoom.us had a 700M visitor spike last month by est on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @02:30AM (#22810538)
> Was there any rational for them doing this?

Conference ids are numbers for easier dial-in?

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