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Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers
- AdmiralAsshat 6y ago> According to Ryan Hughes, a reporter from local outlet WFLA, Judge Christopher Nash said next time he'll require a password. Are you kidding me? I know the courts tend to be tech Luddites, but jeeze.
- irontinkerer 6y agoReading the article felt like a flashback to Lulzsec news stories from 2011
- supernova87a 6y agoWell, this brings up the problem, even if you require a password, as an open court, they're required to publish it to allow people to join. Would they simply post it physically somewhere and only local people could access? But then people could share it with bad actors anyway. Maybe it would just reduce the volume of attacks, not eliminate them.
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoI have to use Zoom at my day-job, and there's quite a few things you can do to try to minimize noise, unwanted guests, etc, including: - Automatically muting people on entry - Not allowing people to unmute themselves - "Locking" the room after the mandatory attendees have joined. It's not intuitive, but it's not super-complicated, either. I don't think it's a failure of the judge, per se--it's a failure of the court not to provide someone knowledgeable to help setup the meeting.
- jonny_eh 6y agoThey could use Zoom for meeting participants, and a separate video streaming service for viewers.
- jaywalk 6y agoThat's what all of the courts I've seen do. They stream the Zoom meeting via YouTube.
- supernova87a 6y agoAh, that's a good solution. Although clearly beyond the current capabilities of many departments still...
- nitrogen 6y agoZoom also has a Webinar format where only the host can transmit, IIRC.
- zwerdlds 6y agoI think this is a lot more optimal too, as it broadens the availability to those without zoom on their device.
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- cosmiccatnap 6y agoImagine that this is the group of people your adult life hangs by a thread with. How can you be expected to respect their decision on a very technically complex crime when they can't even setup a zoom call...
- Ijumfs 6y agoWhy are courts using Chinese spyware to conduct official business?
- vkou 6y agoThe same reason why Europeans use American spyware and adware to communicate with eachother. Because the risk profile permits it. In this county, many courts are open, and prior to COVID, you could just walk into one and listen. Court decisions are likewise open, and part of the public record. Edit: Did you also know that courts and lawyers still use faxes? Did you know that tapping a fax line has been trivial for decades?
- strbean 6y ago"Sorry, we can't accept an email. You'll have to fax it to us. Why, you ask? Because security reasons..."
- zwerdlds 6y agoJust a side note, but some jurisdictions treat faxing similarly to giving a document in-person. For example, signing a contract and faxing it can be considered the same as certified mail. Generally not so with email. I'm not saying it's right by the way, just that is how it is sometimes.
- strbean 6y agoInteresting. I know for a long time "HIPAA reasons" was another justification, which is just downright crazy.
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- henryfjordan 6y agoThe court is already public, no spying necessary.
- vmception 6y agookay this was hilarious but it did answer a burning question I had about how they froze this kid's funds in a prior case: they were on Bitmex and Bitmex cooperated with authorities, and unfroze the funds when authorities realized they had no standing.
- ilikehurdles 6y agoOrganizations really need someone who is technically proficient enough to dig in to zoom settings and configure meetings to disallow anonymous users, screen shares, videos. Zoombombing can be simply prevented by putting everyone not part of the hearing in a "listen-only" mode, and I'm pretty sure the controls to enable that are already there.
- dhosek 6y agoI'd argue that this is something that Zoom should have made easily discoverable and probably the default from the beginning. It's bad UI design.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoBoomers and refusing to learn technology, name a more iconic duo
- k12sosse 6y agoPunk kids and thinking they know everything.
- Sarah_Giggs 6y agoOk boomer
- cosmiccatnap 6y agoAh yes, the classic answer. Ironically proven wrong in the post you've commented on as a group of boomers are about to throw away the rest of the life of a kid who literally did know far more than them for exactly that.
- asquabventured 6y agoReminds me of the televised trial that was using Skype to conduct an interview of a witness and 4chan got ahold of the phone number. The video[1] of it happening is hilariously surreal. [1] https://youtu.be/QKhOFRMkE-0 https://youtu.be/QKhOFRMkE-0