How to Zoom safely, even if you’d like the world as your audience…
In the few months since December 2019, use of Zoom for online meetings and conference calls multiplied some 20-fold, something the creators could never have foreseen. And with that popularity, inevitably, has come the attention of bad actors. The new word “zoombombing” has been catapulted into media headlines, referring to gate-crashing of meetings with racist, obscene or extreme violent material being shared.
Whilst it’s never possible to be completely safe (nor even with physical meetings), simple measures can greatly reduce the risk to manageable and perhaps negligible proportions.
If you can identify all the authorised participants of your meetings such as a group of friends or a committee you can lock it down quite securely, but what if you’re a church or other organisation wishing to make your meeting as open as possible? Even then there are controls you can apply to largely eliminate the risk.
The Threat
First of all, you need to understand the dangers you might face. They are:
Most obviously, zoombombing, as already mentioned. This can be extremely distressing for the host and all those who witness it. If you’re trying to reunite your church or voluntary organisation online during the pandemic there are likely to be those whose trust you will struggle to regain. Privacy of meetings is not strongly guaranteed. For most people this is of little importance but if you were an activist living under a repressive regime or an émigré from such a regime then it could be dangerous to rely on Zoom. A ..
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