If a student leaves group A and joins group B, he can still join A whenever he wants, since he knows the join code. He can use A's join code to spy on his old group A, or plagiarize their solutions.
Group join codes may jeopardize confidentiality
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A quick fix would be to generate new join code whenever a student leaves the group.
Then again, there's one use case for a student flipping between groups described here: https://bitbucket.org/cse-fire/fire/issue/51/student-cannot-resubmit-after-changin-the It would be extremely annoying to constantly ask a groupmate for the new join code.