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You may also like this story where a young girl figured out a way to trick everyone into thinking Zoom was broken so she didn't have to attend online lessons: h

You may also like this story where a young girl figured out a way to trick everyone into thinking Zoom was broken so she didn't have to attend online lessons: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/eight-year-old-girl-branded-23543224 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/eight-year-old-girl...

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
TL;DR of that one: she activated a login lock by filling in the wrong password a couple of times. Zoom support should have been able to see "this account has been locked out due to too many login attempts" though, so that's a bit of a fail. And of course the login error should say as much. My job here is done; Captain Hindsight, away!
- lordnacho 5y ago
  The other good one I saw was to change your name to "Connecting..."
  - CTOSian 5y ago
    lolz... thats really oldschool!! we did with at the BBS-era also we "echoed" this "Type +++ To go voice chat" was epic
    - pmarreck 5y ago
      Things that date me: Knowing the Hayes AT command set
      - samplatt 5y ago
        Coming from a rural Aussie upbringing, I arrived on the scene slightly too late it incorporate that into a career. +++ath0 was still fun though. And the AT set is still used (with extensions) in GSM modems! It's still relevant!
        yetihehe 5y ago
        Even in some wifi "modems". It's like in that "space shuttle size is connected to horse ass width" story.
    - tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
      That seems like instead of a joke, it could be a really cool way to actually implement voice chat... just unlink the modem from the call and use a phone.
  - soperj 5y ago
    Change your name to the teachers name and tell everyone that class is cancelled for the day.
swasheck 5y ago
Yeah. At this point, social engineering is a hallmark of the Covid generation. In retrospect, Zoom hackery almost seemed like the inevitable outcome. We’ve shared good laughs with our kids over the antics “classmates” pulled because of zoom
- mindslight 5y ago
  It's also taken this long to stack enough layers of digital abstractions that kid pranks aren't running afoul of the draconian CFAA.
bgrainger 5y ago
Original Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/mfpiccolo/status/1360685864100237318 https://twitter.com/mfpiccolo/status/1360685864100237318 (The article just recaps this without linking to it.)
- petercooper 5y ago
  Good find. I knew I'd seen it in a better format somewhere before but Googling just found 101 articles.
  - forbiddenvoid 5y ago
    > but Googling just found 101 articles This is just what Google does now.
    - petercooper 5y ago
      Yes. Don't get me started. Quite frequently recently I've searched for answers to things and the "smart" answers they give are flat out wrong or dangerous because they misinterpreted a text. I should probably start to keep a list..
      - sss111 5y ago
        time to build a search engine hall of fame website, or subreddit?

Cthulhu_ 5y ago

TL;DR of that one: she activated a login lock by filling in the wrong password a couple of times. Zoom support should have been able to see "this account has been locked out due to too many login attempts" though, so that's a bit of a fail. And of course the login error should say as much. My job here is done; Captain Hindsight, away!

lordnacho 5y ago
The other good one I saw was to change your name to "Connecting..."
- CTOSian 5y ago
  lolz... thats really oldschool!! we did with at the BBS-era also we "echoed" this "Type +++ To go voice chat" was epic
  - pmarreck 5y ago
    Things that date me: Knowing the Hayes AT command set
    - samplatt 5y ago
      Coming from a rural Aussie upbringing, I arrived on the scene slightly too late it incorporate that into a career. +++ath0 was still fun though. And the AT set is still used (with extensions) in GSM modems! It's still relevant!
      - yetihehe 5y ago
        Even in some wifi "modems". It's like in that "space shuttle size is connected to horse ass width" story.
  - tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
    That seems like instead of a joke, it could be a really cool way to actually implement voice chat... just unlink the modem from the call and use a phone.
- soperj 5y ago
  Change your name to the teachers name and tell everyone that class is cancelled for the day.

swasheck 5y ago

Yeah. At this point, social engineering is a hallmark of the Covid generation. In retrospect, Zoom hackery almost seemed like the inevitable outcome. We’ve shared good laughs with our kids over the antics “classmates” pulled because of zoom

mindslight 5y ago
It's also taken this long to stack enough layers of digital abstractions that kid pranks aren't running afoul of the draconian CFAA.

bgrainger 5y ago

Original Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/mfpiccolo/status/1360685864100237318 https://twitter.com/mfpiccolo/status/1360685864100237318 (The article just recaps this without linking to it.)

petercooper 5y ago
Good find. I knew I'd seen it in a better format somewhere before but Googling just found 101 articles.
- forbiddenvoid 5y ago
  > but Googling just found 101 articles This is just what Google does now.
  - petercooper 5y ago
    Yes. Don't get me started. Quite frequently recently I've searched for answers to things and the "smart" answers they give are flat out wrong or dangerous because they misinterpreted a text. I should probably start to keep a list..
    - sss111 5y ago
      time to build a search engine hall of fame website, or subreddit?