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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on September 08, 2011, 02:56:55 PM

Title: Reminder: put tape over your webcam
Post by: rcjordan on September 08, 2011, 02:56:55 PM

before you make that home porn.

Read this. I'm almost stunned by the level of vulnerability that's now omnipresent. We all know the pieces are there, this guy just showed what can happen when someone puts them together.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/sextortionist/

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So how long will it be before someone uses a hack of, say, Spotify to inject malmare?

Title: Re: Reminder: put tape over your webcam
Post by: ukgimp on September 08, 2011, 03:03:53 PM

there was that guy that ran theIT at some US college he made it so that the webcams were working with the light off remotely, purely as a  security measure lol

Title: Re: Reminder: put tape over your webcam
Post by: rcjordan on September 08, 2011, 04:10:03 PM

>light off
>security measure

Like this one:

"In February, the Lower Merion School District deactivated the webcam-tracking program secretly lodged on 2,300 student laptops."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/webcamscanda/

Title: Re: Reminder: put tape over your webcam
Post by: Rooftop on September 08, 2011, 04:16:40 PM

Scary.
Nice curtains by the way.