Surely you have read about story of the porn video started in the middle of a Senate conference, with important guests connected (including Nobel Prize in Physics Giorgio Parisi). A story that has caused a lot of ink to flow, especially because the organizer, the senator, Maria Laura Mantovani of the 5 Star Movement, along with two other Grillini colleagues, immediately condemned the incident: “This afternoon there was a very serious episode, a real aggression towards which I express absolute indignation, explained the parliamentarian. Someone had entered clandestinely by transmitting a video with pornographic content. Tomorrow, report it Police station”.
Porn in the Senate: how the facts really took place
Doubts immediately arose on this subject but also questions on the possibility that an intruder had the opportunity to break into the video call on the Zoom platform to go share his screen and show everyone a hentai porn video for about a minute, before being kicked out by the event organizers. In that case we were talking about hackers, flaws in security systems, experts in action. Nothing of the sort.
The explanation for everything that happened lies precisely in the inexperienced use of social media, but also of the media, by representatives of the political world who perhaps do not count on those who could on the contrary help them make the right choices. Yes, because, as reported directly on her Facebook profile, Senator Mantovani had published not only the poster of the event with the main information on the date and time when it would have been possible to attend the discussion but above all left the meeting ID and password in plain view to freely access the video call.
So it seems clear that it wasn’t that difficult for the heckler to walk into the conference and share his screen showing the porn video in question with everyone. Moreover, to date, the post of the senator still present on her profile with all the details of the zoom conference and especially the identification data and access code of the meeting.
His name is zoom bombing what happened, that is, vandals entering video conferences whose access codes were recklessly published by the organizers. when organizing a public videoconference but with a ”limited number” for participants who must speak and therefore share images and videos from their screens, it is necessary not to publish the identifiers of the event because it is clear that in this case anyone could enter the conversation shameless. The tools to make safe video calls are here but it is necessary to know how to use them so as not to have to point the finger at others when the error was made by the organizers.