Tuesday evening Zoom sent an email advising that starting May 9th it is requiring all customers to use passwords. If participants join by clicking a link with a password embedded (a practice I recommend against for reasons mentioned in my earlier blog), there’s no change in how a participant joins a meeting. If a participant joins by manually entering a Meeting ID, they will need to enter a password to join a meeting.
In an earlier blog, I had recommended using per meeting IDs to address the Zoombombing problem. Zoom’s password requirement caused me to wonder if there had been a new Zoom security development. A search did not uncover anything new I could specifically relate to the password requirement, but c⎮net’s April 28th timeline of every security issue uncovered sheds light on why such a requirement is a good idea.
