Video Conferencing Software Technology: US Fed Reserve Zoom Conference Canceled

[erek]

High-tech Highjacking / Hijinx

"The hijack left Fed Governor Christopher Waller unable to deliver his opening remarks because pornographic images from a call participant popped up on the screen."

"These so-called Zoom-bombings became somewhat of a scourge in 2020 as events shifted to video calls during the pandemic. It prompted the Justice Department to warn Zoom-bombers it would charge them with a crime if they hijacked a meeting with malicious intent. Zoom, and later Google, eventually rolled out features intended to prevent these unwanted takeovers.

If your meetings are being interrupted by unexpected visitors or inappropriate material, check out our guide on How to Prevent Zoom-Bombing."

Source: https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-fed-reserve-zoom-conference-canceled-after-porn-bombing

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

It's kind of surprising to me that an organization like the fed uses something like Zoom, rather than something more established and serious like Cisco WebEx or AT&T Connect or Lotus/IBM Sametime.

The only reason Zoom took off for trivial shit was because individuals and underfunded smaller institutioons (like local schools) needed something quick and cheap/free when the pandemic groke out. More serious organizations already had established remote meeting software before then, and you'd expect the Fed to be among them.

 

[sharknice]

It's kind of surprising to me that an organization like the fed uses something like Zoom, rather than something more established and serious like Cisco WebEx or AT&T Connect or Lotus/IBM Sametime.

The only reason Zoom took off for trivial shit was because individuals and underfunded smaller institutioons (like local schools) needed something quick and cheap/free when the pandemic groke out. More serious organizations already had established remote meeting software before then, and you'd expect the Fed to be among them.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these organizations had the already more established remote meeting software but just didn't use it because they didn't know how to, or didn't even know they had it. The beurocratic type of people doing these meetings are notoriously bad at tech You also have people that just want to use the popular thing even if they have something better available.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these organizations had the already more established remote meeting software but just didn't use it because they didn't know how to, or didn't even know they had it. The beurocratic type of people doing these meetings are notoriously bad at tech You also have people that just want to use the popular thing even if they have something better available.

That is depressing.

Why don't we just do Fed meetings on Tik Tok? All the kids are doing it....

 

[1337Goat]

Personally, I don't mind trolling at all.

It's extremely important that the king have a jester. I'm not really the sort of person to be amused by this, because I actually favor serious, helpful discussion, but even so, there's surely a philosophical aspect to this here, where it becomes important for the king, or another person with great power, to be openly mocked in a silly way, proving their humanity and their ability to be "fooled."

No matter if it's something lewd, or perhaps harmless like a camera filter that turns a person of power into a clown or something; that sort of thing becomes important considering how dark and censorious the world sometimes feels, no matter if you're left or right. It's good to just have a joke to prove fallibility of all things, such that we have a perspective that includes both king and court, but also the necessity of the jester.

 

[sharknice]

That is depressing.

Why don't we just do Fed meetings on Tik Tok? All the kids are doing it....

Yes I could see it. *Due to inappropriate behavior during our zoom meetings we'll be doing all future Fed meetings to Tik-Tok LIVE*

*receives more bribes from Meta* Oh wait, Tik-Tok is banned, we'll be doing an instagram live stream.

 

[socK]

It's kind of surprising to me that an organization like the fed uses something like Zoom, rather than something more established and serious like Cisco WebEx or AT&T Connect or Lotus/IBM Sametime.

The only reason Zoom took off for trivial shit was because individuals and underfunded smaller institutioons (like local schools) needed something quick and cheap/free when the pandemic groke out. More serious organizations already had established remote meeting software before then, and you'd expect the Fed to be among them.

Zoom is a great platform and their support was excellent when we used them at my last job.

The tools are there to prevent this and have been for years. This is isn't the fault of the product - someone fucked up.

This probably should have been a webinar instead of a meeting, attendees can do nothing but watch unless explicitly allowed.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

Zoom is a great platform

With all of the security problems they have had, I would consider them a joke service which should never be used outside of lightweight consumer use, not a real online meeting platform. If grandma wants to see the baby's face, use Zoom. For a business or engineering meeting it should never be used.

As I see it, there are three, maybe four or five real players in this market. Cisco Webex, AT&T Connect, IBM/Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Teams (the enterprise version as part of 365 or whatever it is called these days) and maybe GoToMeeting, but I am being charitable with that last one.

 

[LukeTbk]

Zoom feel overkill to replace I face and quite underrated for a business, what is the worst that can happen, the example in this thread is a little joke of no consequence.

Depends how secret things is but a lot of engenering business meeting are really low secrecy level wise with people that would have made them in an hotel lobby

 

[Meeho]

"It prompted the Justice Department to warn Zoom-bombers it would charge them with a crime if they hijacked a meeting with malicious intent."

How are FED people supposed to have a meeting then?