Hearing of increasing numbers of very unpleasant Zoom bombing going on, two incidents I know of this evening. Please make sure that you do not allow screen sharing/annotation/private chat during public meetings, add a password, and ideally require registration in advance.

Can also lock the meeting after everyone is in & make use of the waiting room (although this doesn't help if you don't know who is going to be joining). Also suggest disallowing renaming and virtual backgrounds. There are loads of guides out there on preventing Zoom bombing tho.

A reminder of my more detailed guide to running very locked down public events https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KzIrqLsEhVJBM57dVC0fqOVDEazY24kNJcQutXFz4Is/edit?usp=sharing

Please do share information about Zoom bombing with people you know are using it for public meetings as awareness is still apparently not that high.