Singapore stops teachers using Zoom app after 'very serious incidents'

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Singapore stops teachers using Zoom app after 'very serious incidents' COVID19

SINGAPORE - Singapore has suspended the use of video-conferencing tool Zoom by teachers, its education ministry said on Friday, after "very serious incidents" occurred in the first week of a coronavirus lockdown that has seen schools move to home-based learning.

Zoom Video Communications Inc has been plagued with safety and privacy concerns about its conferencing app which has seen a surge in usage as offices and schools around the world shut to try to curb coronavirus infections. "As a precautionary measure, our teachers will suspend their use of Zoom until these security issues are ironed out."

Concerns have grown over its lack of end-to-end encryption of meeting sessions, routing of traffic through China and "zoombombing" when uninvited guests crash meetings.

 

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Tsk.

Sounds like teachers used passcodes. But students handed room codes and passcodes to friends, who then logged in and spammed the rooms with porn. Sounds like this is all on asshole kids, not the software. Same thing could happen on absolutely any video conferencing software.

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