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There are two vulnerabilities in particular that can grant access to videos to hostiles. One is that Zoom video chat IDs are short enough and low enough entropy to be guessable. Also saved videos have a standard naming scheme that makes their file names guessable and therefore accessible publicly. However, any vulnerability, especially intentional ones knowingly trading convenience for security or implemented deceptively, is not acceptable especially when we're dealing with the privacy of children.


That's a pretty silly concern when photos and videos of the same children are spread across Facebook and other platforms willy nilly.


Those are photos and videos they have intentionally shared. Not supposedly secure private video sessions. If private chats and videos on Facebook of e.g. teenage girls virtual sleepover parties were also trivially accessible by strangers, that would also be an equal concern.




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