Portland has hosted two successful online City Council meetings so far. Some of the steps South Portland has taken include using a virtual waiting room for participants, prohibiting screen-sharing, hiding video feeds of members of the public, disabling chat functions and allowing audio only for public comments, said City Manager Scott Morelli. The association has assembled a list of best practices on its website from Saco and South Portland.
The agency recommended hosts not make their meetings public for anyone to join and to make sure they’re using the latest version of the program, which has addressed some weaknesses.Įric Conrad, spokesman for the Maine Municipal Association, an advocacy group for towns, said he’s aware of only a few council meetings disrupted by hackers. The FBI urged anyone using platforms like Zoom to take precautions, including not posting dial-in information for meetings on public websites or social media platforms. One involved someone hacking an online class and yelling a profanity and the teacher’s address, while the other involved an intruder showing Swastika tattoos. The FBI issued a warning about “teleconference hijacking” on March 30, after two incidents in Massachusetts schools. “I was completely surprised, and my first instinct was to find that end-meeting button,” Eosco said. The council was about halfway through the meeting when a topless woman appeared on the screen, Eosco said. “It wasn’t an April’s fools joke,” Chairwoman Mari Eosco said.
But the intruder returned.īath’s meeting got Zoom-bombed April 1. Poore said attendees waited five minutes and then tried to resume the meeting.
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