[GTALUG] Planning April Meeting

[James Knott]

On 2020-04-03 12:21 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 19:00, Scott Allen via talk <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:39, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
>     <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>     > And this, reported today:
>     >
>     <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/zoom-linkedin-data.html>
>
>     And this:
>     <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/elon-musks-spacex-bans-zoom-over-privacy-concerns-memo-idUSKBN21J71H>
>
>
> Bruce Schneier has collected together a bunch of the relevant Zoom issues.
> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html
>
> 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

Then there's this:
https://boingboing.net/2020/04/03/zoom-transmits-your-info-throu.html

>
> 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).

What about private browsers?

> - Various considerations are mentioned here: 
> <https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/how-to-secure-your-zoom-meetings-from-zoom-bombing-attacks/>
>
> 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.
> -- 
> When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
> question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
>
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