2: The Pre-Discord Times

Published: April 8, 2020, 2:20 p.m.

John grumbles, Alison parties, and Liz can\u2019t stay awake.\nPlease email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media!\n\nThe BSFA have a Discord server\nFirst Thursday London pub meetings (\u201cthe Tun\u201d)\nCoNZealand announces they\u2019re going online\nAlison is still running for GUFF\nConcentric 2020 is hosting a virtual Eastercon bid session on Easter Sunday\nWiFi SciFi\n\nPanel 1: Fear, Hope and Speculative Fiction\nPanel 2: The Plague-Writer\u2019s Tale\n\n\nZoom has had some problems with respect to privacy concerns:\n\nEvery Zoom Security and Privacy Flaw So Far, and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself\nThe Washington Post was able to view private, archived Zoom videos\nBruce Schneier goes in-depth on Zoom\u2019s relationship with marketing\nZoom\u2019s response to the technical issues that have been highlighted\n\n\nOur theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license