Amaya Toman When communicating online, it is very important to preserve the security and privacy of users. This is exactly what the Zoom platform intends to do even more in the future, whose creators presented several useful innovations at the recent annual conference to help with this. In the second part of our summary today, we will talk about space. For today, SpaceX is preparing a mission called Inspiration 4. This mission is unique in that none of its participants are professional astronauts.
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Zoom plans to tighten security measures
The creators of the Zoom communication platform this week revealed some of the new measures and features that Zoom is expected to see in the future. The goal of introducing these measures is primarily to protect Zoom users from sophisticated security threats. At its annual conference called Zoomtopia, the company said that it will introduce three new improvements in the near future. One will be end-to-end encryption for Zoom Phone, another will be a service called Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), and then a scheme that will be used to verify the identity of users on Zoom.
Zoom's Chief Product Manager Karthik Rman said that the company's leadership has long sought to make Zoom a platform built on trust. "On trust between users, on trust in online interactions, and also on trust in our services," Rman elaborated. The most significant innovation is undoubtedly the aforementioned user identity verification system, which, according to Zoom's management, should also mark the beginning of a new long-term strategy. Zoom is working on the scheme in conjunction with the specialized company Okta. Under this scheme, users will always be asked to verify their identity before joining a meeting. This can take place through answering security questions, multi-factor authentication and a number of other similar techniques. Once the user's identity has been successfully verified, a blue icon will appear next to their name. According to Raman, the introduction of the identity verification feature is intended to relieve users of the fear of sharing more sensitive content through the Zoom platform. All the mentioned innovations should gradually be put into operation over the course of the next year, but the Zoom management did not specify the exact date.
SpaceX to send four 'ordinary people' into space
Already today, the four-member crew of the SpaceX Crew Dragon space module should look into space. Interestingly, none of the participants in this space trip are professional astronauts. Philanthropist, entrepreneur and billionaire Jared Isaacman booked his flight a year ago, and at the same time he chose three fellow passengers from the ranks of "normal mortals". It will be the first ever purely private mission to orbit.
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The mission, called Inspiration 4, will include, in addition to Isaacman, former cancer patient Hayley Arceneax, geology professor Sian Proctor and former NASA astronaut candidate Christopher Sembroski. The crew in the Crew Dragon module, which will be sent into space with the help of the Falcon 9 rocket, should reach an orbit slightly higher than the International Space Station. From here, participants of the Inspiration 4 mission will view planet Earth. Depending on the weather in the Florida area, the crew should re-enter the atmosphere after three days. If all goes as planned, SpaceX can consider the Inspiration 4 mission a success and begin paving the way for future private spaceflight.
