[PLUG] Question on Zoombombin

[Nat Taylor]

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 <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:28 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> 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.
>
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> > Rich
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