TBT: How to keep your Zoom chats private and secure

PLUS: The best WIRED stories from this month a year ago. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 04.08.21 In the past year, the video chat platform Zoom has gone from hosting your work calls to housing your entire life. And just like the rest of your information, protecting your calls from trolls and prying bosses is a must. Our editors found a few settings you can, and should, tweak to make Zoom a safer place for you and everyone else on the line. Here's how to keep your Zoom chats private and secure, plus more of the best WIRED stories from this month last year.   How to Keep Your Zoom Chats Private and Secure Trolls. Prying bosses. Zoom's a great video chat platform, but a few simple steps also make it a safe one. The Best Stories From This Month, Last Year Does It Matter That the DOD Released Those UFO Videos? The Department of Defense isn't admitting that aliens exist. But apparently they don't mind if you check out their sweet rides. Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects From Above Images taken from space are providing details to governments and relief efforts about how humanity is handling the Covid-19 crisis. Everyone's Video Chatting! But Which Service Is Best for You? Keeping in touch while sheltering in place means relying on a video chat service. We look at which of the six top options are most appropriate for your situation. After 50 Years of Effort, Researchers Made Silicon Emit Light We're approaching the speed limit for electronic computer chips. If we want to go faster, we'll need data-carrying photons—and some tiny lasers. New Yorkers, Once Again at Ground Zero, in Their Own Words This week in our living oral history, the city's residents—from the great to the humble—try to come to grips with a metropolis under assault by a virus. One Man's Radical Plan to Solve Wealth Inequality French economist Thomas Piketty says inequality is a political choice. The solution? Wealth taxes well beyond anything dreamed up by Bernie Sanders. GET WIRED Save 66% on your subscription to WIRED. Get 1 year of WIRED for less than $1 per month, plus, get a free tote! You can't see into the future, but you can subscribe to WIRED. Subscribe now.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.