Zoom private meeting passwords were easily crackable

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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/zoom-private-meeting-passwords-were-easily-crackable-551095

By Juha Saarinen
itnews.com.au
July 31, 2020

The automatically generated passwords protecting private Zoom meetings 
could be cracked with relative ease, allowing access to sensitive 
conferences, a researcher has discovered.

Web site developer Tom Anthony decided on March 31 this year to see if he 
could crack the password for private Zoom meetings.

This followed the Prime Minister of Britain Boris Johnson chairing the 
first ever digital cabinet meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic, posting a 
screenshot of the event on Twitter.

Anthony was among several who noticed that the screenshot had the Zoom 
meeting identifier visible.

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