What is the most talked about or used app today? It is ‘Zoom’!! With ‘Work from home’, ‘Study from home’, ‘Art from home’, ‘Yoga from home’, ‘Dance from home’ and every other ‘from home’ option…the whole world is dependent on video conference apps to continue their life during the pandemic !
One such video conference app is ‘Zoom’ which just shot to popularity just around December. We can connect with friends, family, colleagues all by means of ‘Zoom’. These are the simple features of Zoom if you are unfamiliar with it:
- The free version of the video conferencing app can host around 100 participants per meeting
- There is a time limit of 40 minutes per meeting
- Interestingly, in Zoom, the host has a lot of power
- The host can record the meetings
Here are the vulnerabilities and some problems that users faced with it:
- ‘Zoombombing’ bceame a reality after miscreants bombed into uninvited meetings and posted prohibited content
- Some recorded personal videos of various Zoom meetings were suddenly found online!
- One of the users accused Zoom of leaking data to Facebook and violating privacy
After all these technical woes and their corresponding patches, Zoom 5.0 is here! Here are its new features:
- Zoom 5.0 was released on April 27, 2020 (yes, 3 days back only!)
- Zoom’ will provide enhanced AES 256 bit GCM encryption for all meeting data
- ‘Security controls’ are now grouped together as an icon
- All ‘waiting rooms’ are turned ON by default now
- Meeting IDs are removed from the content sharing window so that participants cannot share it with anybody else by accident
- The host can now remove unwanted participants
- There are new enhancements to leaving and ending meetings(if the host leaves, a new host can be selected)
- The minimum password length for meetings is 6 characters now
- All meetings will only have authenticated users or approved email users from organizations
- Do you have a user who is out of line in a meeting? Hosts can now report any troublesome user to Zoom’s Trust and Safety team for review.
- Zoom clients have till May 30th to upgrade to the new version.
As ‘Zoom’ grows and matures with all of us, it is up to us to use them wisely!
This is the last post for the #BlogchatterA2Z challenge and I hope you enjoyed the journey, just as I enjoyed writing it! 🙂
The previous post can be found here.
Well, I must say that this app has made the lives of many people easier today. I didn’t know so much about it though. Thanks for yet another informational post, Jayanthi.
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Congratulations on successfully completing the A to Z challenge!
Thanks for telling us about the new features of Zoom! I use this app so much and I’m glad to know they have taken steps to ensure safety of users.
Thanks and congratulations to you also for completing the challenge, Noor! 🙂
Zoom has been a saviour on this time of pandemic .
I have been using this app lately and was hardly aware of so many features of it. Thank you for this informative post. It was a pleasure knowing you through this A2Z challenge, and I look forward to keeping in touch! Best wishes!
Same here Jyoti, it has been a pleasure meeting you through this challenge! I hope to read many more of your posts and keep in touch regularly…:)
This app has made lives easier for many people across the globe. I had heard about the security issues and I am glad to know that they have fixed the bugs and upgraded the security. Congratulations on finishing the A2Z challenge! Kudos to you, AtoZ survivor. 🙂
Congratulations on completing the challenge so 5.0 is safe I mean the new version of zoom.
Thank you, Sivaranjini! And congratulations to you too… Zoom 5.0 is better, but is still not considered to be totally safe…
What a wonderful post, so informative and giving none technical people a good insight regarding the app. Do keep sharing such posts, all the best
I have been wanting to master zoom for quite sometime there wasn’t another website that gave me this much clarity. Much indebted to your post
I have been “zooming” almost everyday during the pandemic! This post reminds me of how far zoom has come !
woowow I was not aware about them, thank you for sharing.
Apps that have the most utility these days seem to have the most privacy concerns. Good post.
Zoom is now like a life line. Needed for everything. I use it excessively for my kids schooling n yes I find sme glitch it in too but it’s a good app.
Information on Zoom in simple words is highly appreciated. Zooming my way all these months gave me hands on experience of this Application. Thank you for the details I didn’t know.
That’s quite an informative post, Jayanthi. My son’s online classes were initially conducted on Zoom but then parents insisted to shift the classes to Microsoft Teams to avoid any security risks. Thanks for sharing about Zoom 5.0.
It’s a very informative post, Jayanthi. I had a few bad experiences regarding zoom. Later, also came to know about security issues but zoom 5. Will be better user experience.
Well researched article. Even we were worried about Zoom’s safety issues when schools opted for Zoom classes. But glad to know they have upgraded to safer options.
Wow now zoom has upgraded to more safety features. no worries about while online meetings now. #MyfriendAlexa
Good information regarding the app
This is great ya, too had my reservations about this app post the fiasco it caused and the Twitter community did not leave any stone unturned in beating the crap out of the brand. Good to see them make these changes.