Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic

Elmer, Greg; Neville, Stephen J.; Burton, Anthony; Ward-Kimola, Sabrina

doi:10.1177/20563051211035356

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“…Searching for the causes of this phenomenon attribute it to the mega-disruption of people's lives due to drastic changes in their work-life habits, and such an environment creates anxiety and embedded harassment traits. It was further suggested that such foggy emotions look for a vent, and they found it in the form of videoconferencing platforms that were used extensively and mainly were insecure [2].…”

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“…After analyzing zoombombing data, [2] concluded that the harassment attacks were not inflicted by external forces crashing the video session. Instead, these attacks were carried out by the invitees who were authorized to enter the session, especially in the case of high school and college online classes.…”

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“…A comparative account of Meet, Teams, and Zoom for Security Features [7] Security design properly documented √ √ √ Code Open source Encrypted so the provider cannot read Zoom and its users have recently experienced a security crisis named Zoombombing [1]. The phenomenon has emerged in which aggressors join online meetings to disrupt and harass their participants [2][3]. The idea was started as 'online classroom pranks' and swiftly moved to organized disruption efforts, sometimes also used as a tool for racial harassment and hate speech [4], which the law enforcement agencies have threatened to punish as serious offense [5].…”

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Zoombombing: causes and preventions

Siddiqui

Ahmad²

2023

E3S Web Conf.

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This paper aims to share the Zoombombing: a new phenomenon that emerged during COVID-19, its causes, and measures to prevent Zoombombing. Finally, it provides recommendations to prevent such incidents. Zoom emerged as the most popular alternative teaching tool during COVID-19. However, even though Zoom has utilized state-of-the-art encryption methods, it has underestimated privacy expectations among its exponentially growing customer base. Zoom has many options settings for users to customize and secure their videoconferencing platform to minimize Zoombombing. However, some users overlook these security features, which leaves them vulnerable to offensive material displayed by attackers in a virtual classroom setting. Furthermore, most Zoombombings were made by insiders who had legitimate access to Zoom meetings, particularly students in high school and college classes. To reduce Zoombombing, teachers can enable settings, such as waiting room, restricting access to screen-share, and physical reporting. Moreover, severe institutional punishment for the attackers and their insider supporters can discourage such activities.

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Zoombombing: causes and preventions

Siddiqui

Ahmad²

2023

E3S Web Conf.

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“…They also stated hearing that restrictive signup procedures and interactions were applied in the name of security concerns, such as preventing Zoom-bombing. Emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom-bombing can be characterized as unwanted intrusion of internet trolls into a video conference, hijacking a gathering to insert obscene or offensive material via video, audio, or chat [19]. However, some interviewees suggested meeting controls were not exclusively utilized to prevent trolling or abuse.…”

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Fox

2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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This paper examines the rapid turn to remote public meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a mix of archival materials, participant observation, and interviews within and around two mid- to large cities in the Rust Belt and Midwest regions of the United States, we consider how public officials introduced digital meeting platforms and surveys in place of traditional forms of in-person public consultation. We also examine emergent strategies of residents as they worked to have their voices heard and concerns met during a time of compounding crises (e.g., pandemic, economic recession, racial violence). Drawing from this case study, we articulate the concept of disruptive testimony, forms of public witnessing that trouble established hierarchies of power, surface conflict, and open opportunities for social change. We argue consideration for collective counter-power is increasingly important to GROUP scholarship as it attends to civic engagement beyond participation in formal, sanctioned government processes.

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“…This was unequivocally reflected in the boom of videoconferencing platforms (Marks, 2020): Zoom grew from 10 million users in December 2019 to 200 million users at the end of March 2020; Skype increased 70% (up to 40 million users) from February to March 2020; and Microsoft Teams usage boosted 200% in the overall duration of video calls within only 15 days (from 16 March to 31 March), increasing from 900 million to 2.7 billion minutes. Besides recording the changes on both physical meetings and teleconferencing, researchers were also concerned about other issues such as the forced transition to a new organizational lifestyle (Richter, 2020), the digital security troubles-e.g., the "zoombombing" virtual attacks- (Marks, 2020;Elmer et al, 2021), the physiological implications of long and repeated exposition to virtual meetings-which have been popularly coined as "Zoom fatigue"- (Baker and Murphy, 2021;Karl et al, 2021) and the individuals' attitudes and intentions toward virtual meetings (Hiselius and Arnfalk, 2021;Prasetyo et al, 2022). As a response to these drawbacks, many guidelines on how to plan and conduct virtual meetings have been proposed (Rubinger et al, 2020;Standaert et al, 2021a;Standaert et al, 2021b), which could enhance the acceptability of this practice in the long-term.…”

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The panorama of public officials’ meeting trips after the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact level, recovery, and prospects

Pedreira

Galindo

Batista

et al. 2022

Front. Future Transp.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about considerable changes to human mobility. Although circulation restrictions are being lifted worldwide following the mitigation of the crisis, the understanding of its long-term effects is still limited. This paper addresses the situation of business meeting trips made by public officials in Brazil by gauging the level shift in the number of trips, the pace of recovery in the aftermath and whether there is any perspective of returning to a pre-pandemic baseline in the near future. To answer these questions, more than 420,000 trips comprising 5 years of operation of the “TaxiGov” ridesourcing system were evaluated in the framework of a dynamic regression model based on an Interrupted Time Series analysis with Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average errors. We found that the baseline level of meeting trips plummeted more than 80% with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented effect that was not matched by any major external shock in recent human history. Based on a counterfactual scenario, more than 138,000 expected trips did not occur considering only the first year of the pandemic (April 2020 to March 2021), which is roughly three times as much as the actual number of trips in the same period. Furthermore, based on the time series’ characteristics, a forecast for the following year indicates that the number of business trips will be still behind the baseline figures of 2018 and 2019. We provide solid evidence that the COVID-19 might have produced longstanding (and perhaps irreversible) effects in business meeting trips in the Brazilian public sector. Important policies implemented throughout this period, such as the regulation of teleworking in the public sector, and the incorporation of new working habits after an extended period of adaptation are probably the main reasons behind these findings. Finally, we emphasize that the reduced environmental impacts ensuing from this decreased mobility could be further expanded by substituting car trips with microbus/van lines serving the main origin-destination trip pairs or by adding ridesharing/carpooling options within the existing ride sourcing system.

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Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic

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Zoombombing: causes and preventions

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