I'm hearing voices and check your conference call security
Category Conference Security
This just freaked me out. I was a conference call early this morning with a large company, it had a dialin code, a web meeting and all that good stuff. Anyway I was sitting here a few moments ago, and I started hearing voices and ping sounds, I checked, no IM windows were appearing and I didn't have any browser open, so where were the sounds coming from? It turns out, my phone has been on mute and speakerphone since the end of the earlier call, but I never hung up.
Turns out the telephone conferencing system never hung me up from the previous call, and now I can hear what I expect is supposed to be a secure conference call. I know a couple of people on the call so I'll hang up to save them embarrassment. This is one of those areas that the telephone conferencing system should handle better, but if the people involved had been using a truly integrated telephone and web conferncing system, they would have seen that there was another phone line still connected and they could have hung me up. This is one of the reasons why web conferencing hooked into telephony is great, and also a reason why conferences call systems should not cycle around meeting IDs too quickly.
This just freaked me out. I was a conference call early this morning with a large company, it had a dialin code, a web meeting and all that good stuff. Anyway I was sitting here a few moments ago, and I started hearing voices and ping sounds, I checked, no IM windows were appearing and I didn't have any browser open, so where were the sounds coming from? It turns out, my phone has been on mute and speakerphone since the end of the earlier call, but I never hung up.
Turns out the telephone conferencing system never hung me up from the previous call, and now I can hear what I expect is supposed to be a secure conference call. I know a couple of people on the call so I'll hang up to save them embarrassment. This is one of those areas that the telephone conferencing system should handle better, but if the people involved had been using a truly integrated telephone and web conferncing system, they would have seen that there was another phone line still connected and they could have hung me up. This is one of the reasons why web conferencing hooked into telephony is great, and also a reason why conferences call systems should not cycle around meeting IDs too quickly.
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