Google Hangouts Sniping & YouTube Livestream Hijack, Channel Takedowns, and SJW Shenanigans

My livestream was hijacked using an exploit and as a result I was given a strike against my channel and can no longer livestream. I posted a link to invite guests into my hangout in the video details, the guest booted and banned me FROM MY OWN SHOW then streamed porn. That’s when I learned about Hangout Sniping:

"Sniping" is the colloquial term which the community gave to an exploit ("feature") in Google Hangouts which allows anyone to remove another account from an external hangout chat group, without any kind of permissions check. If the removed user is in the hangout associated with that chat group, they will be ejected from that hangout within seconds of being "sniped" and will be prevented from re-joining. Nearly all hangouts have external chat groups and are therefore vulnerable to sniping by anyone who has access to the hangout link. The sole exception is corporate hangouts, which have no external chat and therefore are immune to being sniped.

This could hardly be considered an "exploit" since it requires no hacking, technical knowledge, or packet voodoo of any kind to abuse. It seems to be the case that the Hangouts dev team at Google considers the ability to snipe hangouts to be an intentional feature, which they have no interest in fixing. If there's any better proof that Google doesn't give a flying fuck about Hangouts, I can't think of any.

This "feature" was first made available by an update to the Google Hangouts front-end interface on July 14th, 2016. The first person to discover (and abuse) the exploit was Josiah "BroJoSavedByGrace" McClain, who used it to vandalize one of Steve McRae's live hangouts that evening. Upon becoming aware of it, GDC member Kevin Buchik researched the exploit (becoming quite shocked at how simple it was, and how someone at Google actually thought allowing people to remove anyone from any hangout was a good idea), and proceeded to write a detailed bug report for people to submit.

Google's security team responded within days, acknowledged that it was a problem and promised to pass it on to the Hangouts development team. After hearing nothing for over a month, the response came back that the Hangouts dev team allegedly implemented this "feature" on purpose, and had no intention of fixing it.

Since pretty much everyone knows how sniping works at this point, Kevin's vulnerability disclosure writeup on it can be read here.

docs.google.com/document/d/1EZbqpgjerRTbuaEZrCuaNngL6-e6bu3j0BJy8Lai3m4

Feel free to follow the instructions and submit it to Google again if you want, but it's highly unlikely that it will do any good.

Source: http://great-debate-community.wikia.com/wiki/Hangout_Sniping

More References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbRIRsm_mc <- HIJACKED VIDEO

https://www.facebook.com/about/posts/991873270959967

What Is Going On Youtube? Apologizes To Infowars Then Strikes Again! The Alex Jones Channel - Mar 4, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgV9azkdKXE

IS THIS THE LAST VIDEO OF ALEX JONES ON YOUTUBE? The Alex Jones Channel - Mar 4, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=288uXvkNLMo

YouTube deletes entire Health Ranger video channel; deletes over 1700 videos in latest politically motivated censorship purge (UPDATED) Saturday, March 03, 2018 by: Mike Adams https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-03-youtube-deletes-entire-health-ranger-video-channel-deletes-over-1700-videos-in-latest-politically-motivated-censorship-purge.html

Sargon of Akkad: The YouTube Purge Paul Joseph Watson - Mar 2, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U85G7Lhvq54

China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe By PAUL MOZUR MARCH 2, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/technology/china-technology-censorship-borders-expansion.html

YouTube says its new moderators ‘mistakenly’ shut down pro-gun conservative channels while trying to block far-right conspiracy videos Tim Collins - 1 March 2018 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5449129/YouTube-moderators-mistakenly-shut-channels.html

EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Secretly Using SPLC To Police Videos PETER HASSON - 02/27/2018 http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/27/google-youtube-southern-poverty-law-center-censorship/

10,000 Google staff set to police YouTube content: chief December 5, 2017 https://phys.org/news/2017-12-google-staff-police-youtube-content.html

Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China By MIKE ISAAC NOV. 22, 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censorship-tool-china.html

September 22, 2016 - Get started with YouTube Heroes http://web.archive.org/web/20160922012002/https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7124236?hl=en

YouTube’s new Heroes program gives volunteer moderators serious perks by NAPIER LOPEZ — Sep 21, 2016 https://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/09/22/youtubes-new-heroes-program-gives-volunterer-moderators-serious-perks/

And More

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/youtube-heroes-controversy

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/54bpuo/were_some_of_the_youtube_heroes_trusted_flaggers/

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7124236?hl=en

YouTube Trusted Flagger program https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7554338?hl=en&ref_topic=7124235

https://contributors.youtube.com/

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