[liberationtech] The 'Vacuum-Tube' Mind-Set - Crashes Into 'A Digital Planet'

[Robert Mathews (OSIA)]

'*The phone slipped into the bath': Conference call tales*
By Katie Prescott
Business correspondent
*BBC*
31 March 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52032849

"I was on a call last week and a colleague's half-naked boyfriend walked
behind her," recalls communications consultant Jason Nisse.

    His experience illustrates the pitfalls of videoconferencing, a
technology that thousands of workers are getting used to as they attempt
to work from home.

    Some people really need help.

    In one (genuine) email doing the rounds, a financial services worker
is told: "Your screen is visible and we can all see you watching porn in
between enquiries."

    Teleconferencing apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet are
reporting dramatic user increases.

    For many of us, this means getting to grips with a whole new way of
working.
   
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*Gravitas: Video-calling app 'ZOOM' admits to routing calls via China *
*WION*
Published on Apr 6, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avg5HRLwkHo

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*Move Fast and Roll Your Own Crypto*
/A Quick Look at the Confidentiality of Zoom Meetings/
By Bill Marczak and John Scott-Railton
April 3, 2020
*The Citizen Lab*
*University of Toronto*
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/

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*FBI Warns of Teleconferencing and Online Classroom Hijacking During
COVID-19 Pandemic*
March 30, 2020
*FBI Boston*
Kristen Setera
(857) 386-2905
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/boston/news/press-releases/fbi-warns-of-teleconferencing-and-online-classroom-hijacking-during-covid-19-pandemic

-- 
/Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.
Principal Technologist &
//Distinguished Senior Research Scholar//
//Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)//
//University of Hawai'i/
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