https://forward.com/news/442568/anti-semites-zoom-hackers-video-swastikas-zoombombing/
By Molly Boigon
Forward.com
March 27, 2020
Cindy Goldberg, a school board president, was waiting for a virtual meeting to
begin on Zoom Tuesday night when hackers started posting cartoon images of
Hitler, photos of Nazi soldiers and swastikas to parents, board members and
other staff for the school district sandwiched between Los Angeles and Santa
Barbara.
“Awful doesn’t begin to touch it,” said Goldberg, 56, in a phone interview.
“It’s horrific. It’s disgusting. It’s disheartening.”
The hackers also streamed graphic pornography and used the n-word in the
meeting of the Conejo Valley Unified School District, threatening family
members with sexual violence. The barrage lasted only for about a minute and a
half, but, Goldberg said, “it felt like an eternity.”
The phenomenon Goldberg and the other board members, district staff and online
viewers witnessed is known as “Zoombombing,” when uninvited attendees post
hateful and graphic material, often including pornographic, racist and
anti-Semitic images in Zoom video conferences. As life moves online in the time
of coronavirus, Zoombombing is increasing.
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