Reply to: Spice up your Zoom meetings

[darmstadt]

I use the wall of toilet rolls for mine....

[vetran]

When you have World governments, research facilities, global corporations, and military depts using Zoom, you have a problem.

Yes but that is a different problem to zoom's popularity they should know better and use one of the secure tools.

Our conf call wasn't on Zoom for instance, but our infrastructure team know what they are doing. You would have thought that someone in the government should have thought about it and switched to a paid one.

[DimPrawn]

Yeah China is desperate to get ahead in Cat Gifs, stylish hats and pictures of homemade meatballs.

We did have a conf call yesterday and the best background was the wallpaper on his son's bedroom. It was little cars & streets. Far too many balloons and pictures of Star Wars planets.

When you have World governments, research facilities, global corporations, and military depts using Zoom, you have a problem.

[vetran]

A few months ago I hadn't even heard of Zoom, but had heard of Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, Cisco etc. Then suddenly in the Media it seems like the only way to suddenly communicate is via a Chinese created app called Zoom, chock full of vulnerabilities and with data siphoned off to China...Coincidence?

Yeah China is desperate to get ahead in Cat Gifs, stylish hats and pictures of homemade meatballs.

We did have a conf call yesterday and the best background was the wallpaper on his son's bedroom. It was little cars & streets. Far too many balloons and pictures of Star Wars planets.

[NotAllThere]

That you've never heard of it means nothing.

Especially as we're talking about DimPrawn here.

[Old Greg]

A few months ago I hadn't even heard of Zoom, but had heard of Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, Cisco etc. Then suddenly in the Media it seems like the only way to suddenly communicate is via a Chinese created app called Zoom during a Chinese created pandemic virus, chock full of vulnerabilities and with data siphoned off to China...Coincidence?

There are no coincidences.

[xoggoth]

Impossible for any program to make me look more handsome than I am.

[ladymuck]

A few months ago I hadn't even heard of Zoom, but had heard of Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, Cisco etc. Then suddenly in the Media it seems like the only way to suddenly communicate is via a Chinese created app called Zoom, chock full of vulnerabilities and with data siphoned off to China...Coincidence?

Zoom has been around for years. That you've never heard of it means nothing.

Teams (not its Skype predecessor) is younger than Zoom.

[DimPrawn]

The world has been utterly bonkers for several decades. Have you been asleep?

A few months ago I hadn't even heard of Zoom, but had heard of Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, Cisco etc. Then suddenly in the Media it seems like the only way to suddenly communicate is via a Chinese created app called Zoom, chock full of vulnerabilities and with data siphoned off to China...Coincidence?

[NotAllThere]

Has the world gone fecking mad?

The world has been utterly bonkers for several decades. Have you been asleep?

[DimPrawn]

No idea, though I'm not sure how secure the alternatives are. Friend has to do consultations via Zoom as apparently Skype isn't secure enough.

Zoom: Two new security exploits uncovered - CNET

Nothing is as unsecure as Zoom. We use Cisco Jabber.

[woohoo]

Why are people using Zoom, some dubious Chinese software (Eric Yuan - Wikipedia) probably sponsored by the Chinese Communists to spy on US and Western corporations?

Has the world gone fecking mad?

No idea, though I'm not sure how secure the alternatives are. Friend has to do consultations via Zoom as apparently Skype isn't secure enough.

[Ploptimus]

I'm going to get it to fake me be awake. Or I could just do this:

I can see these making a comeback:

[DimPrawn]

Why are people using Zoom, some dubious Chinese software (Eric Yuan - Wikipedia) probably sponsored by the Chinese Communists to spy on US and Western corporations?

Has the world gone fecking mad?

[woohoo]

I've managed to avoid Zoom meetings to, though it seems to be the thing at the moment.

I think you can create your own avatar faces which seems a bit dangerous just need to practice on the vocal impression, maybe not.