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Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers

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Re: Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers

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Why are courts using Chinese spyware to conduct official business?

The 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?

Re: Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers

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Organizations 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.

Re: Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers

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> 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.

Reading the article felt like a flashback to Lulzsec news stories from 2011
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