![]() This prevents anyone who might want to dox you from seeing or screenshotting your face, and you can always turn your video camera on if you decide that it’s okay to do so. If you have any concerns about bad actors being in the room, you can enter with your video camera disabled.If you don’t know how change your display name before you enter a Zoom room, you can learn how with this guide (though if you expect to be using different names in different rooms, you may want to do this process for every room rather than checking the “Remember my name for future meetings” box): Consider using only a first name or pseudonym as your display name, as a safeguard against doxxing.Don’t give meeting information - like meeting IDs, call-in information, or passwords - to people you don’t know and trust.Particularly if you have enough technical expertise to set up your own server, you may also wish to look into an alternative like Jitsi that functions similarly but with slightly more security. This can be tricky at times, but the following best practices (divided into sections for all participants, for meeting hosts, and for reducing the risks inherent in livestreaming a Zoom meeting) are a good place to start. In using Zoom for organizing, we must strike a balance that allows us to have our meetings as unimpeded as possible, without inadvertently making it easier for fascists, other reactionaries, law enforcement, and others to undermine our efforts. More activity means more bad actors looking for vulnerabilities and other ways to exploit the app, which for organizers looks like people disrupting our calls or using calls to gather data for doxxing. Organizers have used video calling app Zoom for a while now, but it has seen a flood of activity recently as people across the world shift to remote work and schooling, due to novel coronavirus. – Boston DSA Direct Action, De-escalation & Security (DADS) Committee
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