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The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
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Re: The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
#62I don't really understand the webcam paranoia. If my computer is completely compromised, somebody watching my face is the least of my worries.
Some people want to take additional assurances that they won't be blackmailed with explicit footage or find themselves on a revenge porn site. That sort of thing can make identity theft pale in comparison.
Another aspect to consider are devices used by children. Tape should be pretty much requisite.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like phones, most laptop webcams have no "on" light. You have to trust that the software you have on your device isn't using the microphone and camera without your permission.
you and i have very different experience with webcams. i have yet to see a webcam without an indicator led in my life.
I agree, I can't recall seeing a laptop cam without an indicator led.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like phones, most laptop webcams have no "on" light. You have to trust that the software you have on your device isn't using the microphone and camera without your permission.
you and i have very different experience with webcams. i have yet to see a webcam without an indicator led in my life.
I'm pretty sure his meaning was that an "indicator led" is not the same thing as an "on" light. A usb webcam is on as long as the host is providing power, the led is on the honor system - completely implementation dependent. My $2 dynex lights up when accessed in Windows, but I can easily pull images from it in linux without the led coming on - it is driver controlled. It wouldn't be hard to modify the windows driver, or write your own.
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#65>"I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape — I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop — I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera." Such a telling statement. It's my belief that this man does not adequately comprehend the magnitude of the issues at hand. General Hayden, on the other hand, is a man whom I believe to…
Hayden understands technology like a politician understands rhetoric. He's a snake.
I recently had the chance to meet Gen. Hayden. He is quite competent and could hold his own in a technical discussion at a high level. He understood the minutiae of the Clinton email scandal and shared some insights that made me reconsider my view on the issue.
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#66I'd be interested in finding out how many people do this with the front facing camera on their phone. It seems to be a much lower percentage than those who do it with their laptop webcam (from what I've observed at least).
You would find ioerror's cell phone project interesting: https://people.torproject.org/~ioerror/skunkworks/moto_e/
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hayden understands technology like a politician understands rhetoric. He's a snake.
I recently had the chance to meet Gen. Hayden. He is quite competent and could hold his own in a technical discussion at a high level. He understood the minutiae of the Clinton email scandal and shared some insights that made me reconsider my view on the issue.
What was your view on the issue?
I had read that they didn't even have SSL on the box for some time after it was up and running.
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#68Every corporate laptop I've worked with has the camera and microphone physically removed.
If needed for a function, a USB camera and/or microphone is applied for through various chains of approval, and plug-in pull-put tracked.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hayden understands technology like a politician understands rhetoric. He's a snake.
I recently had the chance to meet Gen. Hayden. He is quite competent and could hold his own in a technical discussion at a high level. He understood the minutiae of the Clinton email scandal and shared some insights that made me reconsider my view on the issue.
Not sure if you're at liberty to say, but if you are I'm interested in what he had to say about the emails.
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#70> "absolute privacy" hampers law enforcement.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ..."
Sorry man, you were instituted to serve me, at my consent and pleasure, not the other way around. You have the make the case to me to do what you want, not the other way around.