Here’s how to prevent ‘Zoom bombing’ on your video chatsĪs people and businesses have become increasingly reliant on video chatting since the coronavirus pandemic began, the FBI’s Boston office reported this week that “Zoom bombing” incidents are occurring across America. Here is more info on “Zoom Bombing” from Fortune magazine: In the meantime, stay healthy and safe, OBecians. But rest assured, I am not dissuaded and am looking at all options to reschedule the meeting soon. Unfortunately low brow, obnoxious harassers are adaptive too. I was looking forward to thanking my fellow board members for being adaptive, making their volunteer role in the community a priority, and continuing their efforts to lead during this crisis. We are in contact with the City’s Attorney’s office to review what cybersecurity measures can be taken that would comply with the Brown Act, which requires our If you were able to record any of the meeting or have any information, please contact us so we may forward it to the San Diego Police Department. Accordingly, we have filed a police report and have been assigned a case number. Unfortunately, we’ve learned that this has become a trend for public meetings hosted on chat platforms.

After the first 5 minutes of the OBPB meeting, the number of attendees suddenly spiked, host controls were overridden, swastikas were drawn overtop the screen shared agenda, every person in attendance was verbally harassed by name, and a porn website was screen shared.

Last night during the Ocean Beach Planning Board’s April meeting, we experienced what is being called a “Zoom Bombing”. Here below is Andrea’s report about the incident to the community, written April 2:

This is not the first time a virtual meeting via Zoom has been disrupted with swastikas and porn. The incident was reported to the San Diego police and Schalgeter has been in contact with the City Attorney’s Office. The number of “attendees” suddenly spiked, Chair Andrea Schalgeter lost host controls, swastikas appeared, a porn website screen appeared and Board members were “verbally harassed by name”, according to Schalgeter.Īs you can imagine, the meeting came to a grinding halt. But after about 5 minutes into the virtual meeting, it was – what’s called “Zoom Bombed”. On Wednesday night, April 1, the OB Planning Board tried to hold their public meeting via Zoom.

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