![]() You can re-use the meeting ID for future occurrences.” So meetings are available outside of their scheduled time, which is good. ![]() You can restart the same meeting ID as many times as you would like, within the 30-day period.” And recurring meetings? “A recurring meeting ID will expire 365 days after the meeting is started on the last occurrence. How long does it exist for? “A non-recurring meeting ID will expire 30 days after the meeting is scheduled for. If you hit “end meeting” and then end it for everyone, the room is emptied out but the “meeting” continues to exist, and people can go back to it and meet there again. What Zoom calls a “meeting” is actually more like a “meeting room.” (Unfortunately, to add to the confusion, there something called “Zoom Rooms,” which involves physical conference rooms with videoconferencing hardware.) Each “meeting” has a “meeting ID,” a 10-digit number, which is basically the “address” of this meeting room. You might think it is two or more people videoconferencing, and that when you hit “End Meeting” the meeting, uh, ends. They seem to be making a good-faith effort to address the reported vulnerabilities.īefore we go any further, it will help to understand what a Zoom “meeting” actually is. My impression is that this is a reflection of Zoom’s popularity rather than any shoddiness on their part. ![]() ![]() The Covid-19 epidemic has led to a huge upswing in the use of Zoom for videoconferencing, which in turn has drawn attention to some of Zoom’s vulnerabilities and to some security flaws. Disclaimer: it is based on my current best understanding of Zoom, but it is offered “as is,” with no assertion on my part or on behalf of the IEDTA that it will definitely solve any problems, or that it will definitely not cause problems of its own. This revised version of an email I posted on the EDT-List discussion group may be helpful to therapists using Zoom to see patients. ![]()
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