We imagine that there’s at least one member of the Italian senate who’s excited for more Final Fantasy VII Remake content, but this probably isn’t the way they wanted to receive it. When the Italian senate met yesterday (January 18) in a hybrid real-life/Zoom session in Rome, the session proceeded predictably, until a user named Alex Spence joined the call and shared a video of FF7 protagonist Tifa Lockhart in a compromising position.
It didn’t go over well.
According to Eurogamer, senators exclaimed “sex offender” and “Oh, Christ” before ejecting the unruly user and trying to continue with their session. Speaking with ANSA Politics, Senator Maria Laura Mantovani filed a police report about the incident, hoping that law enforcement could find and punish the perpetrator.
It probably also goes without saying that the hentai video was a fan creation. (I’ve played through Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade twice and haven’t seen that footage, anyway. Unless I really missed something.)
The good news, of course, is that big, important meetings full of big, important people present tempting targets for trolls; your personal calls are probably much less interesting. Still, Tom’s Guide has a primer on how to identify and fix Zoom security issues, which should weed out the vast majority of malefactors. There’s nothing surprising here: Use a password, activate two-factor authentication, use a Web browser rather than outdated software and so forth.
As for the Italian senate, the pornographic interruption came in the middle of a seminar entitled “Towards a Transparent Civil Service.” While the FF7 video wasn’t transparent, pe se, it was, at least, a form of exposure.
