Instructions

In the interest of preventing “Zoombombing,” we have enabled additional security features which will reduce the risk of unwanted participants within your meeting. One of these features is requiring meeting passwords for all meetings.

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When a person attempts to access random Zoom meetings, they almost always may do this by randomly generating potential meeting ID’s and attempting to join the meeting at that ID. By creating a password, you automatically disallow any user anyone using this guessing method from joining.

Distributing Meeting Passwords

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By including the password in the meeting link, you allow meeting participants to bypass entering the password manually. This may seem like it defeats the purpose of a password, but it still prevents the most a common Zoombombing vector, as described in the above section.

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Zoom will automatically generate a meeting password for you when you schedule the meeting. If you want a custom password, you can change it for scheduled meetings.

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