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Zoom has account & ip information and most of these people aren't going to be using a real vpn. It's probably easier to track them than swatting calls going to voice services.

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I'm pretty sure that pretty much all of the people doing that will be using vpns. I mean come on, vpns are one of the most known services on the internet. In the wake of shadowbaning, global silencing by social networks and being penalized on the basis of anything that deviates at least a bit from the norm, anybody who wants to speak like a normal person on the internet has to use a vpn. You can bet that whoever goes way beyond what is considered normal on Zoom will be using a vpn.

Many people zoombombing are likely kids who don’t know any better, their OpSec is probably pretty poor.

Great, so you scoop up a bunch of 12 year-olds who don't know any better and send them to juvie. Sounds like a net positive on society.

Nobody's yet proposed any concrete sentencing, and that is something the courts have a lot of leeway in, especially with 12 year olds.

Given reasonable handling (i.e. no actual prison sentences): yes, it does indeed sound like a net positive on society if a bunch of 12 year-olds learns to know better that stupid shit can have real, serious consequences.

Or society can learn that a 12yo has a very poor judgement and treat seriously the thing that actually matters - that most people have no knowledge or common sense with regards to security. If a 12yo can distrupt your corporate meeting, then IMHO the problem is not that underage kids are prone to stupid pranks. This is nothing else than an outlash by people who feel humiliated. Maybe, just maybe, they should feels stupid for a bit.

Very likely kids. I've been seeing tons of links to meetings with passwords being dropped into Discord chats asking for someone to bomb it at a certain time. While certainly there are some sophisticated bombers out there, it seems like there are quite a few who are just classmates wanting to disrupt classes.

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