It all suggests to me that we shouldn't consider it as more than a temporary stopgap measure.
Our security concerns aren't necessarily the same as others' concerns:
- Our meetings are comparatively public matters; we don't especially mind if more people listen in
- The special concern I'd have is if joining a Zoom meeting exposed members' personal information; we should certainly be wary of that
- One of the protections is somewhat troublesome to apply to us; we will be a bit more vulnerable than average to "Zoom bombing" because we have a need to publish the addressing information somewhat publicly
And I'd think that individuals should consider things like the following...
- Run the web interface atop a separate web browser from your 'usual' activity so that it doesn't have as much to collect data from (I keep a Chromium around for that sort of thing).
It's actually a mighty useful thing to arrive at a set of protective measures on this, as there are a lot of organizations using Zoom, and hence some value if we have a sufficiently terse set of measures that might be useful to others.
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When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"