Dan has also given talks on upcoming tech trends.ĭan is completely platform agnostic, equally at home on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS and uses all four on a regular basis. As a tech pundit, Dan has also been quizzed and quoted for a wide variety places including BBC World Service and News Online, Sky News Swipe, The Sun, BBC Radios 4 and 5Live and has also been interviewed on Channel 4 News, ITV News and Sky News. He has also written a book, 1000 Life Hacks, featuring lifestyle tips and tricks across various topics including tech, parenting, fashion, home and DIY. Dan has also written for a huge amount of magazines and websites including The Big Issue, MacFormat, Maximum PC, Official PlayStation magazine and Web User. He was also part of the team that launched TechRadar where he rose to deputy editor. Based near Bath, UK, Dan stepped up to Pocket-lint from T3.com where he relaunched the UK lifestyle and technology site after a spell launching and editing Lifehacker UK. He’s a regular at tech shows like CES, Mobile World Congress (MWC) and IFA as well as other launches and events. And if you create an instant meeting (an impromptu meet without an invitation), the password will be shown in the Zoom client in case you want others to join.ĭan Grabham is the former associate editor at Pocket-lint working across features, news and reviews and has extensive experience writing about computing, mobile and internet topics. If your attendees are joining via a meeting link (web address) and have a Zoom account there is no change.įor meetings scheduled from now on, the meeting password can be found in the invitation. So you can't now just join a meeting with the Meeting ID - you need the password number as well. Previously scheduled meetings (including those scheduled via your Personal Meeting ID) will have passwords enabled. To make sure that only people you want to be in meetings can access them, Zoom meetings now have passwords as standard. Why you now need a password for Zoom meetings The result is a much more robust product that is now, in terms of security, much stronger.

Now the platform has over 200 million users) Zoom's chief executive put out a heartfelt blog post apologising for early security issues including the issue of Zoombombing, where people enter chats they shouldn't have access to, with the promise to fix it and make everything secure. Following a huge influx of Zoom users in 2020 (At the end of December 2019, 10 million people were using it.

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