"Jerusalem" counterattacked Rome.
On the afternoon of January 17, local time, the Italian Senate held a video conference in the online conference software Zoom. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, senators have become accustomed to using this video conferencing approach to discuss political matters.
According to Italian media, the conference brought together dozens of experts in economics, sociology, information technology and communications, as well as 73-year-old theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physicists. The meeting, dedicated to discussing data transparency in government affairs, is expected to last three hours.
George Parisi
Unsurprisingly, the meeting was supposed to be a bland vignette of the Italian state apparatus.
But unexpectedly. Half an hour after the meeting, Senator and Moderator Maria Laura Mantovani was bowing her head on the podium of the House and reading a sleepy speech: "About the results of medical and scientific research, and their quick access and reliability..."
As a result, she didn't notice anyone entering the meeting and activated the ability to share her screen. The person who shared the screen called himself "Alex Spence," and what he "shared" was a short, adult-oriented 3D video featuring the woman who was Tifa, the heroine of Final Fantasy VII.
As a result, government meetings became some kind of unseemly "live broadcast."
In order to ensure the normal upload of news photos, the way netizens type can be described as painstaking
"Spencer" repeatedly shouted in Italian in Italian in his current microphone while playing the film, which completely ruled out the possibility that a senator or scholar would accidentally touch the sharing button while not doing his job and causing social death - "Spencer" was purely to cause trouble.
Footage from the meeting showed that Tifa's video was quickly finished, and "Spencer" cut out the window of the chat software Discord and opened a Discord channel, where all the members of the channel were sharing short videos that were inappropriate for children - this "Spencer" seemed to be prepared.
"Spencer" hesitated when looking through the chat history, and then picked out a "original god" theme film to continue "live". This time, however, he did not succeed in finishing the film.
The senators and academics present had apparently never encountered this, and if it weren't for spencer's current, Mantovani, the host, might not have noticed the chaos of the venue. As a result, no one reacted at the first time.
Finally figuring out what was going on at the scene, Mantovani sighed, called in an assistant to provide "technical support", and blasted Spencer out. The assistant first disabled spencer's ability to share the screen, but the sound of the current microphone and the film lasted for several seconds until "Spencer" was kicked out of the meeting by the assistant, and the noise disappeared completely.
Mantovani continued to read her speech, and the video conference went on as usual and ended smoothly, as if the minute-long chaos had never happened.
The entire session was broadcast via Facebook and Senato TV, a television channel dedicated to the events of the Italian Senate. Italian officials removed indecent footage from the conference footage, but these indecent clips have long since begun to travel on social media and become the jokes of players around the world.
"Actually Alice did it"
Some netizens took the opportunity to contact the original author of the Short Video of Tifa. The Italian Senate inadvertently provided the author with a hugely influential gratuitous advertisement for the crowdfunded eater, and the author began to greet Italian fans without shame.
"Well, it looks like someone messed up. Hello Italian fans."
However, spencer's prank of disrupting parliamentary order has been illegal, and Italy's official caliber will obviously not give any praise to players for what they call "the handle of the 3D zone" or "Jerusalem".
The host Mantovani's reaction after the meeting was extremely strong, and the calm reaction in the meeting was similar to that of the two people, who pointed out in an interview with local media that she had informed the police: "This is a real hack, and I express absolute contempt for it." ”
Using a hacker metaphor for "Spencer" is a bit of a high opinion of him. As the use of video conferencing climbs, Zoom bombing is becoming more common, with uninvited bombers disrupting video conferencing by uploading and sharing content such as pornographic violence.
Zoom's instant, fast advantages will become an opportunity in front of these unscrupulous users. First of all, to join a meeting using Zoom, you only need to enter a string of digital IDs corresponding to the meeting, and there is no mechanism for reviewing identity throughout the process. If the host forgets to lock the meeting after it starts, anyone can theoretically come in.
Second, the ability to share screens is virtually unlimited, and attendees can share their screens directly with everyone in the room without the host having to grant permissions in advance.
"Zoom will automatically switch to full screen for the best picture"
The Events of Spencer may have resulted in the largest Zoom bombing ever, and Tifa unfortunately became part of history. As for who leaked the meeting ID and what the motive of "Spencer" broke into the meeting and caused trouble, the answer can only be reached by waiting for further investigation by the Italian police.