Name: How Zoom became a household name
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T19:48:31.000Z
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- Until recently, you might not have even heard of Zoom.

The video conferencing app that millions of people

are using to stay in touch with their friends and family.

It's grown immensely, basically overnight,

because of the pandemic and people are hosting

Some people are even getting married on Zoom.

It's obviously a super surreal time right now

and people are trying to find the easiest

but that ease of use might be coming at a cost.

Researchers and privacy advocates are finding security

and privacy issues with Zoom on what feels

Zoom could become a victim of its own success

as it faces a privacy and security backlash.

Now, to understand why Zoom became so popular

so quickly you have to understand how the app works.

Every Zoom call comes with a nine to 11 digit

have to enter that code in order to access a meeting.

That's super easy compared to its competitors.

Skype for example requires a long case sensitive,

By default though, you can jump into a Zoom meeting

or even a link and start broadcasting your webcam

or the content of your screen to anybody on the call.

and super easy to use, but it's also lead

This is where pranksters join Zoom meetings

and stream porn or other offensive videos.

and especially bad when it affects school aged children.

A lot of the privacy and security concerns

but then, as researchers dug deeper into the app,

might have shared information with Facebook.

of New York's Attorney General which sent a letter

to the company to better understand its security practices.

The FBI has also warned about Zoom's default settings

and some companies are even now starting to ban Zoom

These are just a couple of Zoom's privacy

Well, it comes down to what I was talking about earlier.

You can have an unlimited number of meetings

and up to 100 people to chat for free at a time.

This means, an entire classroom can jump in

and do virtual meetings, or groups of friends

can get together without paying anything.

Zoom also does a great job with gallery view

Its competitors sometimes make people look

At a time when everyone is stressing about the pandemic,

people are going to flock to whatever's free

Skype, the video calling service we probably all remember

to hold video meetings, but for a long time,

it was buried away and most people didn't know

has instead focused on building its team's software

after years of letting Skype's reliability

and its user interface become kind of questionable.

and Google Hangouts are just some solid alternatives to Zoom

and some rival services are even lowering their free limits

to get more people using their apps right now.

All these video apps are good and different

It's worth exploring and seeing what's out there

Just know that Zoom isn't your only option.

All right, so what is Zoom doing about all

The company is not rolling out any new features

for 90 days to focus on reviewing the problems

that researchers and journalists have raised for one.

It's also now claiming that the app was never designed

or for the influx of people who are using the app

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