How to Prevent Trolls From Zoom Bombing Your Online MeetingBy Nancy Clanton
(TNS)—As students at the University of Tennessee were participating in a virtual "Milkshake Monday," an anonymous person jumped into the Zoom gathering and began berating everyone with racist rants.
As the video conferencing platform Zoom has grown in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic, so have instances of "Zoom bombing." Zoom bombing is when someone joins your meeting and disrupts it in some way. If you don't want to risk this happening while chatting with your grandparents or co-workers, there are steps you can take to prevent it. Create a Unique ID Instead of using the personal meeting ID Zoom assigns when you create an account, PCMag.com recommends you instead generate a unique code. "Here's why," PCMag.com writes. "Once you put your PMI into the world, people can use it to try and jump in on your Zoom calls at any time." Create a Waiting Room By creating a waiting room, the host and/or co-hosts can control who joins a meeting. The "waiting room" option can be found under account settings. Once enabled, the host can either put everyone in the waiting room or "guest participants only," which adds people on different Zoom accounts or who are not logged into the waiting room. Disable Screen Sharing The Verge also recommends the meeting host disable the screen-sharing feature. "If you schedule a meeting from the web interface, you won't see the option to disable screen sharing," The Verge writes. Instead:
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