Got Zoom Bombed at a community meeting this week.

[Raven]

This was a meeting in my tiny town on renewable energy. There were about 20 people on this zoom meeting. We were twice bombed by two different naked men masturbating. The leader of the meeting was fairly quick to get rid of them, but not quick enough. I just wonder about the sick mentality of people who do these things.

[Ocelot II]

1. It's basically the same guys who used to flash passers-by on street corners; now they can do it

from the comfort of their own homes. At least you could point and laugh at street-corner flashers.

[Skittles]

2. those sick fucks have always been around

back in the day it was the obscene phone calls

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. In the early 1970s, at the branch library in

Alexandria, VA, there was a young man who would hide in the stacks and masturbate where people like me could see him. I was too young to realize I needed to IMMEDIATELY go to the librarian and let her know.

There are, sadly, a lot of sick people out there.

[Raven]

4. I guess these days they have a bigger captive audience.

[Tetrachloride]

5. It's time to stop using the cheapest possible method

Dual registration is the heart of most of the popular safe techniques.

[Raven]

6. Please explain!

[Tetrachloride]

8. . Some options

1. stop posting the actual link publicly.

then something more

2. email or phone the 20 people with the link

3. temporary links to the actual link. (details will vary)

4. credit card verification, same as star membership in DU

4a. set a price of 100 dollars if you want.

[Raven]

9. The problem is that this is a public body (the town Energy Committee),

so its meetings must be open to the public. The state of NH requires that notice must be published and I don't believe it allows for passwords, etc. We can't charge for admission or ask for credit cards. We can ask people to identify themselves, but there is no way to verify that. We can't even limit participants to just townspeople. I'm thinking that the only solution is to be very fast with the delete key or something like that but it only takes a few seconds for someone to gross people out.

[Tetrachloride]

10. I suggest that it is in the public interest to take something like the measures i suggested

1. consult local attorney and a software consultant.
I am not a frequent Zoom user so my ideas are not sufficiently accurate.

2. the premise is that nationwide or worldwide invitation to predators is against the Constitution.

3. Make the legislature, governor, bureaucracy and Supreme Court come up with pro solutions.

it’s not your job to police every visitor who wants to get on camera

[jcgoldie]

7. Toobined!

Was wondering what Jeffrey was up to...