[ntucker]

I wouldn't go so far as to say "the real crime," but I wholeheartedly agree that zoom should share some responsibility here. If we're going to routinely put children in a virtual space, that virtual space should be able to be secured for them. If an after-school children's program put children in a position where, say, sexual predators easily had access to them, we'd not only blame the sexual predators, but also the system that put the kids within reach to them.

I've always been very surprised zoom has an easily-guessable meeting ID namespace. It's a user experience tradeoff, but in my opinion, either the meeting IDs should be sparse and hard to guess, or there should be passwords (or possibly both).

[runawaybottle]

The guessing the meeting ID thing is probably not the real vector. I’m positive college kids and k-12 kids are sharing the private links online and amongst themselves.

In that case Zoom needs what any forum software inevitably has to implement: moderating tools. Meeting hosts should be able to ban ips, if they are getting hit via a proxy, the host should be able to mute everyone/disable sharing video of everyone, etc. It’s not that hard to mitigate this stuff, the key word being mitigate not ‘stop’.