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by bduerst 1569 days ago
The article gives specific examples like virtual meeting software that doesn't have users, just URLs. It's more than that.
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The solution for that is easy: Don't share the new URL with someone that was a jerk in the past. (And don't make it easy to guess meeting URLs)
How do you share a URL without a user representation to share with? How do you prevent others from sharing URLs with bad actors? Or meeting passwords?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombombing

You send the url to your friends however you like. Email, chat, QR code. You don't send it to people who aren't your friends.
> How do you prevent others from sharing URLs with bad actors?

Sure, but then the student who shares their interactive class URL (w/ or w/o password) on 4chan still isn't accounted for.

Your argument boils down to "I came up with one scenario where this is bad, so it can't work at all" and I find this dissatisfying. If this hypothetical student "shared" their user account and then disavowed giving it out, you would have the same issues.
My original question is:

>How do you solve problems arising from bad actors without an object representing the user?

In response to the argument that user objects are no longer needed, even for something like virtual meetings. The scenario of zoombombing isn't something "I came up with", it's a real life scenario that having a user object helps prevent bad actors with.

In the event of a user sharing their account, you would know who it was and be able to hold the bad actor accountable, as opposed to a meeting URL being shared. I think the better question is why you are so hostile to the idea of user accounts having utility.

You can easily generate individual share links for every pupil and sanction the one whose link was used by a hundred random people from all over the world to join the conference. Jitsi and Big Blue Button are both able to handle this special use case where users aren't trusted to act in good faith I believe.
The individual share links would be linked to what exactly? A non-user object with the student's name and email address?