![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Notice the URL in the invitation in Figure 2 to “Join Zoom Meeting” includes a “pwd=” parameter followed by numerous seemingly random characters. Zoom invitation email with a default, random password After all, when a service asks you to create a password to access an account, it normally asks for that password whenever you log in – that’s the way passwords typically work.įigure 2. The person scheduling the meeting probably expects that the meeting participants will need the password to connect. Zoom recently changed this from defaulting to “off” in response to the Zoom-bombing issues of uninvited guests joining meetings that some people have experienced. When scheduling a meeting in Zoom, as seen in Figure 1, there’s an option “require meeting password”, which defaults to “on”. Why, if the meeting invitation has a password listed in the details, is it not needed? The host may have consciously set the meeting to need a password with the assumption that the attendees will need to input one when they click the link to join the meeting. Have you ever needed to enter a password when connecting to a Zoom meeting? If you have, then I feel certain that you’re part of a minority among Zoom users. With Zoom – and Zoom-bombing – being all the rage, here’s why the app’s default password settings may be leaving the backdoor wide open ![]()
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