Eric Yuan – the man behind video conferencing app Zoom?

Zoom Video Communications, specially the video calling zooming become very popular with the ongoing COVID 19, many corporations are preferring in the world is working from home in the past few weeks.

As the fight against the coronavirus outbreak intensifies, there are millions of people working from home. That's not the only use-case for video calling. There are people using it for virtual playdates for their kids or choosing to hold virtual drinking sessions with buddies, as there is a ban on meeting in public places. Social distancing is the norm.

Zoom, the company founded by a former CISCO employee Eric Yuan. Zoom was founded in 2011 along with 40 other Cisco engineers that Zoom CEO Yuan took with him.

This video conferencing solution was a concept he had dreamed up in China when he was a student in the 1990s. It was born out a need to avoid the 10-hour train trips to see his then-girlfriend who he later married.

Video conferencing app Zoom, which has seen its popularity skyrocket in the coronavirus pandemic, is in hot water after users complained to the FBI of being startled by porn during meetings. New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to the in-vogue California enterprise 'with a number of questions to ensure the company is taking appropriate steps to ensure users' privacy and security,' a spokesman said.

The investigation comes after the FBI's Boston office warned on Monday that it had 'received multiple reports of conferences being disrupted by pornographic and/or hate images and threatening language.'

Yuan, 50, recently spoke to The Associated Press during an interview conducted on, well, Zoom. He spoke about how companies will learn from the current scenario and think about remote working. He says companies may refine their policies to allow work from home at least once a week or have certain functions that can be done remotely. Earlier companies were not open to the idea of working from home.

Yuan also talked about how Zoom is being used for more than just businesses. He said that while it wasn’t what the company had envisioned in the first place, having Zoom used by schools for virtual learning is motivating for his team.

“I am just telling my team and reminding myself this is a very critical time because we are in a crisis. So we are focusing on two things: To serve our existing customers and make sure our service is always great quality and is always up. The second thing is how can we help the local community, like the K-12 schools, handle this crisis.” Eric Yuan, Zoom Founder to AP

He further talked about how during these trying times of social distancing, physical interaction is an important element of society. He mentioned that in the future, we may have features like a virtual hug which can actually be felt or the possibility of digitising the smell of tea or coffee.

He said that while such features will be available with AR (augmented reality) technology, it was still early days. Personal interactions are still inevitable. With inputs from Associated Press.

Zoom-bombing is when someone gains unauthorized access to a Zoom meeting to harass the meeting participants in various ways to spread and hate and divisiveness, or to record pranks that will be later shown on social media.

Do not share your meeting ID

Each Zoom user is given a permanent 'Personal Meeting ID' (PMI) that is associated with their account.

If you give your PMI to someone else, they will always be able to check if there is a meeting in progress and potentially join it if a password is not configured.

Instead of sharing your PMI, create new meetings each time that you will share with participants as necessary.

Disable participant screen sharing

To prevent your meeting from being hijacked by others, you should prevent participants other than the Host from sharing their screen.

As a host, this can be done in a meeting by clicking on the up arrow next to 'Share Screen' in the Zoom toolbar and then clicking on 'Advanced Sharing Options' as shown below.

· The Quarantined workers using conferencing app Zoom say they've been hacked with pornography and hate speech. The FBI listed two examples where hackers had 'Zoom-bombed' schools which have closed because of the deadly virus and which are now teaching classes online.

A Massachusetts high school reported that an unidentified individual dialed into the virtual classroom and yelled a profanity at the teacher before shouting the teacher's home address.

The FBI recommended that Zoom users make all meetings private and avoid screen sharing to combat would-be hackers. Silicon Valley-based Zoom said it 'takes its users' privacy, security, and trust extremely seriously.

'During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working around-the-clock to ensure that hospitals, universities, schools, and other businesses across the world can stay connected and operational.