<story><title>Zoom Has a Dark Side – and an FBI Warning</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826129520/a-must-for-millions-zoom-has-a-dark-side-and-an-fbi-warning</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>The ability for someone to crash your Zoom meeting was &lt;i&gt;extensively&lt;/i&gt; discussed here yesterday, and Zoom already has all the necessary tools to prevent it, but people aren&amp;#x27;t necessarily aware of them:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22762173&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22762173&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But a fear-mongering article like this has no place on HN. A &amp;quot;dark side&amp;quot;? &amp;quot;FBI warning&amp;quot;? This is pure propaganda and sensationalism -- that if someone joins your unprotected Zoom meeting, they can stream whatever they want (obviously) which could include pornography.&lt;p&gt;You might as well issue an FBI warning about phones because someone can randomly dial you and say gross stuff.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have a problem with HN articles about legitimate security concerns around a newly popular tool, but linking it to pornography is pure fearmongering at its worst.&lt;p&gt;This article doesn&amp;#x27;t deserve to be here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwarner</author><text>Well, the FBI issued a warning in the public interest, not to persecute Zoom. And by the sounds of it Zoom is going to address these issues and absolutely none of this press going to hurt them in the long run.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zoom Has a Dark Side – and an FBI Warning</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826129520/a-must-for-millions-zoom-has-a-dark-side-and-an-fbi-warning</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>The ability for someone to crash your Zoom meeting was &lt;i&gt;extensively&lt;/i&gt; discussed here yesterday, and Zoom already has all the necessary tools to prevent it, but people aren&amp;#x27;t necessarily aware of them:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22762173&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22762173&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But a fear-mongering article like this has no place on HN. A &amp;quot;dark side&amp;quot;? &amp;quot;FBI warning&amp;quot;? This is pure propaganda and sensationalism -- that if someone joins your unprotected Zoom meeting, they can stream whatever they want (obviously) which could include pornography.&lt;p&gt;You might as well issue an FBI warning about phones because someone can randomly dial you and say gross stuff.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have a problem with HN articles about legitimate security concerns around a newly popular tool, but linking it to pornography is pure fearmongering at its worst.&lt;p&gt;This article doesn&amp;#x27;t deserve to be here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tylermenezes</author><text>&amp;gt; Zoom already has all the necessary tools to prevent it&lt;p&gt;How about:&lt;p&gt;- A good UI which encourages users to do the correct thing
- Systems to detect and block war dialers</text></comment>