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posted on Nov, 13 2010 @ 08:08 PM
Ever since they first sold built in webcams I have wondered if it was not so much a nice free extra but a built in spy tool for someone.
Now just for a minute think about the situations you have got yourself into while surfing the internet. How embarrassing would it be if everything you
have ever done that your webcam could capture was made public to your friends, colleges and families along with the names of the websites you
visit.
We hear all the time how the NSA etc want to have access to emails and phone calls and they are always getting in trouble for one thing or another.
Now imagine that this is just a screen so you do not realise that they already collect and save every webpage you visit along with pictures and
videos; and not forgetting a streaming video from your webcam of your activities.
STUPID IDEA?
What if I told you that you can download code from a particular website and embed it into a webpage and when some accesses your site then can then
open a connection and view their webcam for as long as the computer remains on. If they turn off their computer they have to come back to your website
to reconnect.
I do not have this facility on my websites and I would never do so. the question we have to ask ourselves is who is watching us and WHY? oh and don't
forget they can also listen to you as you have a microphone built in!!
I now have a sticker over my web cam!
edit on 13/11/2010 by theregonnakillme because: felt like it
UPDATE:
The post was about people other than governments being able to access your camera for malicious purposes, however as posted by Aristophrenia down the
page:
"The UK has laws which specifically allow mi5 and mi6 to go into your computer, turn on your web cam, and access any files they want to remotely if it
is connected to the net - anything."
edit on 13/11/2010 by theregonnakillme because: update