Tech Advisor - UK (2020-07)

76 TECH ADVISOR • JULY 2020

WORKING FROM HOME TIPS

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documents in Zoom

Privacy

BothZoomandSkypeuseend-to-endencryptionto

securecommunications.However,someofZoom’s

basicfunctionalityhasbeencalledintoquestionsfor

its privacyvulnerabilities.

Most notable is a recent spate of Zoombombing

• theactofusingZoom’sscreen-sharingfeatureto
  displayviolentorpornographicimageryinameeting.
  Enterprisingtrollshavebeenexploitingthefact
  that Zoom doesnotrequirea meetinghosttogrant
  screen-sharingaccesstoanotherparticipant.Allthey
  needthenis a meetinglinktoenter– andre-enter
  underanewname,ifblocked–avideoconference.
  Zoombombing has become such a nuisance that