Current best practices for hosting zoom meetings is to require a password, and have all users wait in a "waiting room" until the host allows them in. I think you can set it so Audio and Video is disabled too until the host allows it.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:44 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:28 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, Mike C. wrote: > > > > > I wish there was a better term for people who commit malicious acts of > > > computing than hacker. > > > > > > I still associate "hacker" and "hacking" with non-malicious. > > > > +1 I refer to them as 'crackers', regardless of geographic origin. > > > > > sadly, that will never fly since 'cracker' already has a racist > connotation. But we already know what to call them, don't we? > > There are 2 groups of malicous hackers. The first group is relatively > harmless, since they are doing it for the prestige. Typically younger > people who find a few fun tricks and run around on a vandalism spree. They > usually get caught and punished accordingly. A number of the big "hackers" > from the 90s are now adults leading normal lives. Posting pornographic > images in someone else's meeting is just standard issue internet trolling. > > The second group is state-sponsored, and we call them "spies". Because > that's what they are, agents of a government who are paid to steal state > secrets from other countries. Hacking is just one of many techniques a spy > can use to obtain information. Instead of trying to give them a new name, > we just need to update our understand of the technology to properly > identify these individuals as what they are. If someone were truly > dangerous, they wouldn't announce their presence to the entire zoom > meeting. they would sit there quietly, pretending to be a legitimate member > of the meeting, while recording everything they see and do. Wrap up the > data in a neat little digestible package and send it straight to your > russian/chinese/united states/<insert country here> intelligence agency. > Because that's what a good SPY would do. > > Quiet, Polite, Respectful, and significantly more Dangerous than your > average naked lady picture. > > > > > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
