Zoom
Zoombomber – sostantivo
Zoombombing – sostantivo
Zoom shirt – sostantivo
The firm said Zoom 5.0 will include upgraded encryption features to help protect data and fend off so-called “Zoombombing”.
Zoombombers often hurl racial slurs or profanity, or share pornography and other offensive imagery.
Some take their Zoom Shirt on and off for every meeting, while others wear theirs all day.
There are several ways to Zoom Shirt. Some people, like Mr. Farrell, go to a one-garment extreme.
Com’era facile prevedere, la pandemia da COVID-19 ha generato tantissime espressioni e parole nuove. Un’area particolarmente fertile è stata quella del lavoro da remoto o WFH, una novità per molti; di conseguenza l’uso dei piattaforme di videoconferenza come l’americana Zoom (forse la più nota, fondata nel 2011), ha avuto un’impennata.
Uno dei problemi iniziali legati a Zoom è stato il cosiddetto zoombombing, per cui sfruttando falle nel sistema di sicurezza delle prime versioni della piattaforma, i malintenzionati s’intromettevano in una videochat di gruppo senza essere stati invitati, interrompendo e inviando file audio o video osceni, violenti o razzisti. Molto più simpatico è il concetto di Zoom shirt, ovvero una camicia o un top consoni all’occasione da indossare nel caso mentre si lavora da casa ci fosse una videochiamata di lavoro imprevista. E Zoom shirt è anche diventato un verbo, come si vede nell’ultimo esempio dato.
Origini del termine
Pare che per il nome Zoom i fondatori si siano ispirati al titolo di un libro per bambini, Zoom City. Zoombombing ha fatto la sua comparsa nella primavera del 2020, mentre Zoom shirt è stato usato per la prima volta in un articolo del New York Times del giugno scorso.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
Zoombomber – noun
Zoombombing – noun
Zoom shirt – noun
The firm said Zoom 5.0 will include upgraded encryption features to help protect data and fend off so-called “Zoombombing”.
Zoombombers often hurl racial slurs or profanity, or share pornography and other offensive imagery.
Some take their Zoom Shirt on and off for every meeting, while others wear theirs all day.
There are several ways to Zoom Shirt. Some people, like Mr. Farrell, go to a one-garment extreme.
As could have been predicted, the Covid-19 pandemic has been highly productive of new words and expressions, many of them very creative. One fertile area has been that of working from home or WFH, a novel experience for many. Use of videoconferencing has soared as a result, with one of the most popular platforms being Zoom, a US-based service founded in 2011.
An early problem with Zoom was zoombombing, where security holes in earlier versions of the platform meant that uninvited people could intrude into a call with unwanted or malicious content. Much more agreeable is the notion of the Zoom shirt, a smart blouse or shirt kept to hand by a home worker in case of an unexpected online meeting. What is not unexpected is the speed with which Zoom shirt became a verb (see the last example above).
Origin
The company name Zoom was apparently inspired by the title of a children’s book, Zoom City. Zoombombing started to appear in spring 2020, while the Zoom shirt was first mentioned in print in a New York Times article in June.
