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GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide
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#12i wish i could chose from a wider range of laptops without camera and microphone i own an old hp like that and i love it i never need the camera and when i need to skype i just plug the headphones
Tape works really well for disabling webcams. Microphones are a bit trickier, but if you're not against permanent damage shouldn't be too hard.
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#13I wonder what they are doing with all the d#k pics? Making a database and cross referencing them with d#k pics of known terrorists? To use in conjunction with full body scanners at airports so they can more easily spot a potential terrorist just by looking at their junk? Stranger things have happened.
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#14Wow. It concerns me that the latest Snowden leaks are more privacy invasive than the first ones. What's next?
Also, every specific denial by Clapper and his supporters is getting refuted. I'm interested in who will be revealed to be the victim of some compaign using the porn-browsing habits, and what corporation(s) will be revealed to have benefitted and been victimized by economic espionage.
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#15I hope one of the users wasn't Wendi Murdoch, otherwise (the then) UK Prime Minister Tony Blair would have a LOT of answering to do [0].
>> The passionate note surfaced amid the flotsam of a shipwrecked marriage. It was written in broken English by a woman to herself, pouring out her love for a man called Tony. “Oh, shit, oh, shit,” she wrote. “Whatever why I’m so so missing Tony. Because he is so so charming and his clothes are so good. He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt . . . And he is slim tall and good skin. Pierce blue eyes which I love. Love his eyes. Also I love his power on the stage . . . and what else and what else and what else . . . ”
>> The woman was Wendi Deng Murdoch, the Chinese wife of the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The note, not revealed until now, could have been one of the few pieces of evidence in their surprise divorce last year, had the case come to trial. “Tony” was the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair.
[0] http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/03/wendi-deng-note-to...
Re: GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide
#16This is why I have a piece of cardboard hanging over my webcam. That would have seemed extremely paranoid last year.
That may or not be paranoid, but it's not really on topic. The users in this case had were actively using their webcams and sending images over the Internet to chat partners.
Yeah, in this case.
It doesn't fill me with confidence that 'they' aren't remotely activating and recording images without our knowledge though.
As to topicality, it depends how narrow your interpretation of the topic is.
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#17The document estimates that between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery harvested by GCHQ contains "undesirable nudity". Discussing efforts to make the interface "safer to use", it noted that current "naïve" pornography detectors assessed the amount of flesh in any given shot, and so attracted lots of false positives by incorrectly tagging shots of people's faces as pornography.
So, if you have to hide something, show your private parts. Can we conclude this?
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#19This really isn't any worse than the other invasions of privacy that have been revealed – but it's much easier to point at it as an egregious and visceral violation of privacy. Even though webcam stills may be the least important (or useful) spying the US and UK have been doing, this may be some of the best fodder for arguments to limit such activities. So thank you, UK, for being so dumb.
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#20The document estimates that between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery harvested by GCHQ contains "undesirable nudity". Discussing efforts to make the interface "safer to use", it noted that current "naïve" pornography detectors assessed the amount of flesh in any given shot, and so attracted lots of false positives by incorrectly tagging shots of people's faces as pornography. So, if you have to hide something,…
Reminds me of this story, the googling of which is now in my search history so I hope you're grateful.
"A US card cloner forced would-be gang members to take part in group sex sessions as part of an initiation ceremony designed to weed out undercover cops, according to a detective."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/01/smut_initiation_card...