Bob Koure
1 min readApr 1, 2020

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Personally, I’m concerned about Zoom. It’s not ‘zoom-bombing’, but exactly this (well, and it’s unclear that private meetings are actually private). IMO this is an issue for any organization with a ‘duty of care’ for their clients’ private information (financial, legal, and especially medical). If you are using Zoom, be sure all conference-ees know not to divulge clients’ private data (same issue with doctors in a hospital elevator).

Out of this concern, I’ve been investigating an open-source alternative: Jisti Meet. (web / Android / iOS). There’s also code you can setup on your own server (local or webfarm) so you and your users can avoid tracking. There’s already blog support for setting up an instance on AWS, although none so far for my preferred webfarm (DigitalOcean).

The other advantage to setting up your own server is scaling. Think of the number of people using Zoom. Any server you set up will only have to be provisioned for your own users.

Not technical enough to do this yourself? Maybe check upwork to see if there’s a techie willing to do it for you for hire. Meanwhile Jisti provides accessible servers (which I expect might overload once I click ‘publish’ — sorry!). There’s also what appears to be an inadvertent ‘conf-roulette’, which I found by going to the chat room ‘test’.

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Bob Koure
Bob Koure

Written by Bob Koure

Retired software architect, statistical analyst, hotel mgr, bike racer, distance swimmer. Photographer. Amateur historian. Avid reader. Home cook. Never-FBer

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