Zoom Warning

Dear friends and colleagues,

Social distancing does not mean social isolation, and many of us are using Zoom to connect with others important to us. With this in mind, please be aware of a warning issued earlier this week by the University of Maryland, which has been passed on to me. There is now a new way to express hate labeled “zoombombing”: People crash Zoom meetings, expressing horrific, unsettling, ugly statements. This is possible because when we schedule zoom meetings, the default is “personal Meeting ID” -- and this ID follows us and does not change. That means that when we use it anyone who has learned this ID can drop in. For protection select “Generate Automatically,” which generates a unique ID for that specific meeting.

Be well and safe.

To be continued, SaraKay