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Big Brother - Eyes
It has been known that webcams are easy to hack and any privacy conscious individual should put a piece over the webcam build into their laptops.
Criminals have been known to hack into webcams etc.
But now we know that the government has been watching the world's webcams on a massve scale. According to a report in The Guardian based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden, The UK GCHQ has been monitoring Yahoo on a massive scale. In one 6 month period they took/obtained pictures of 1.8 million people. None of this was targetted at criminals or potential terrorists. They simply spied on everyone.
While this was on Yahoo and between 2008 and 2010, don't expect it to be limited to that timeframe or that network
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WHAT
Can it continue if I sellotape my webcam then? (Probably should've listened to your suggestion afterall)
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi
try it in some camera application to see what can be seen, it will probably be enough.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Just everyone who has Yahoo?
That's what the leaked documents are about.
But if I was a betting man, I would say no, not just Yahoo.
People have been convicted of hacking webcams and if you can do it one way, you can do it another way.
Assume this was done for every method of communication.
(I havent touched on the fact that most phones these days have atleast one camera...)
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
What on earth.. =\
just got super freaked out by reading the first sentence, it was on my mind to cover my webcam for a while but now i went, got a postit note sort of thing, some cellotape and done.
bet they can switch on our microphone and listened it too though...
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
The rest of your comment made me chuckle but when i came to that my face went o_o
I am never talking when my laptop is on ever again!
T.
You don't need to take your laptop anywhere, thats a feature built into your phone (which I might add probably has TWO cameras, not one...)
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
How about when the laptop is switched off? I assume there's no spying..
I'm paranoid anyway, so I tend to use blue tack on my webcam!
iPhone 5s continues to track your movements even after the battery dies
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Wow
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi