Another popular tactic is to blast loud noises and music, a method known as “ear rape.” Some of the disrupters launch into ridiculous lines of questioning, perform supposedly comedic skits or shout or breathe heavily into their microphones. In “best of” compilation videos on YouTube and in live Zoombombing incidents witnessed by Inside Higher Ed, intruders frequently pose as students before taking over classes.
And there appears to be no shortage of volunteers. On social media platforms, users with hundreds of thousands of followers have openly called on students to share details of upcoming classes so that they may disrupt them.
Those details often include passwords to private meetings scheduled by users with access to paid Zoom educational accounts. Many students are willingly sharing details of upcoming conference calls in online chat rooms and message boards. More often than not, it seems the attacks on higher education classes are targeted. Trolls playing “Zoom roulette” simply type a random 10-digit number into Zoom - the videoconferencing service that many colleges and universities have relied on to move classes to remote instruction on short notice. Some of the disruption to online classrooms is random. Such trolling, which first drew widespread attention last week, has been dubbed Zoombombing. This incident is just one of many disruptions to plague higher education in recent weeks as quarantined keyboard warriors seek to wreak havoc on classes that are suddenly being offered remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students have been asked to complete the test in their own time, the university confirmed. Their efforts to disrupt the test resulted in its cancellation. “I got you, me and two other friends are joining.”Īrmed with a Zoom videoconference ID, the trolls got to work. “Don’t make it too obvious at the start that you are trolling, just ease into it lmao.” A brief exchange is all it took for one student to completely derail an online accounting test at the University of Arizona yesterday.
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