Google has renamed this popular app

NEW DELHI: Internet search giant Google has rebranded its communication tool, Google Hangouts. The company has now named it Google Meet, as it calls it in a blogpost where it highlights its security features.
Although the post nowhere announces this renaming, a report by Android Police claims that Google has confirmed to them that it will be retiring Hangouts Meet branding and will call it Google Meet going forward.“The rebrand will happen on a rolling basis, presumably meaning it will take time for it to disseminate globally, or to things like the Android app,” says the report.
It remains to be seen how this rebranding will affect the Hangout chat service and whether or not it be renamed. “Google had no comment at this time as to whether Hangouts Chat would be similarly rebranded,” the report added.
In the blogpost, Google has detailed the measures the company is taking to keep the data of the Google Meet users safe.
Google claims that its Meet platform makes it difficult to programatically brute force meeting IDs by using codes that are 10 characters long, with 25 characters in the set. It also limits the ability of external participants to join a meeting more than 15 minutes in advance. It also doesn’t allow external participants to join meetings unless they’re on the calendar invite or have been invited by in-domain participants. Alternatively, they need to request to join the meeting, and their request must be accepted by a member of the host organisation.
Google also assures that to limit the attack surface and eliminate the need to push out frequent security patches, Google Meet works entirely in the browser of the user. This means that there is no requirement for any kinds of plugins or software to be installed if you use Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge.
Lastly, Google claims that all data is encrypted in transit by default between the client and Google for video meetings on a web browser, on the Android and iOS apps, and in meeting rooms with Google meeting room hardware. “For every person and for every meeting, Meet generates a unique encryption key, which only lives as long as the meeting, is never stored to disk, and is transmitted in an encrypted and secured RPC (remote procedure call) during the meeting setup,” says the post.