FBI can hack into your webcam and watch you

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December 9, 2013
The FBI can now turn on your webcam without the green light activating. The green light lets the user know that they are being recorded. Get out the masking tape or a band aid, and cover your PC's webcam, suggests Theresa Payton, who is a cyber-security authority & identity theft expert and former White House CIO.

Payton appeared on “Fox and Friends” Monday morning live Dec. 9 and she shared with the audience just how easily it is for webcams to be hacked into. According to Tech Eye.net on Dec 9, the FBI can now turn your webcam and your speakers on without turning on the green light.

This is extremely intrusive, but the FBI first developed this malware to enter a suspects webcam and computer that would allow them not only to look through the computer files, but to turn on the PC camera and record the suspect without the green light turning on to indicate a recording is underway.

The suspect that the FBI devised this malware for is still at large, the FBI believes he is in Iran. He was being watched because he made a series of threats to detonate bombs at universities and airports across the U.S. last year.

Now that the FBI has this ability to watch suspects, there’s no telling just how many of these surveillance cases are going on at any given time. The malware used on the suspect was delivered when he logged on to his Yahoo email account. The FBI was to gather details of the websites the suspect visited and to pin point the location of the computer.

"Cover your webcam or close the laptop," suggests Lance Ulanoff, the editor and chief from Mashable.com. Ulanoff appeared on “Fox and Friends” live Monday morning. He suggests not using tape, because if you want to use the camera on your laptop or computer, the residue left from the tape could distort the lens. You can use a band aid if you don’t get the tape on the camera lens.

There you have it, the government has the technology to watch you in your home and they can actually see everything that you do online if they decided that you were someone they needed to watch. The experts say to guard yourself against any unwanted hackers, government or the everyday run-of-the-mill voyeurs. Keep that camera lens covered so no one can hack in and keep an eye on you!
FBI can hack into your webcam and watch you: Get out the tape and band aids - Hartford Top News | Examiner.com
 
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I know that some Sorenson can hack on your nTouch cam to watch. I use cloth over cam.
 
I wonder how many agents and man hours were spent watching me pick my nose and giggle as I surf the internet?
 
I only have a laptop so it stays closed when not in use. However, when I'm using it I still cover the came with a piece of tape or something... I don't trust people for beans.
 
I close my laptop when not in use.

If someone gets a thrill out of watching a 62-year-old gray-hair peering over nerdy computer glasses, so be it. :lol:
 
My life isn't exciting so they can watch all they want. I have nothing to hide.
 
Unfortunately there is more at risk than simply being seen. The cell phone can listen to you as well as track you. The trail we leave on the internet has been easy pickings for a long time. The number of cameras everywhere combined with satellite and drones is on the increase by the minute. It is easiest for our own government to spy on us but there are others loving it as well.
Whether or not our information is useful to them is no longer our decision. It is their decision.

We are being experimented on without our direct knowledge. The information package they can put together without our consent becomes part of these mass experiments. Individuality also becomes source material for all manner of variable studies and modeling probabilities.

What we have now is a momentary place on an increasing continuum.
 
Unfortunately there is more at risk than simply being seen. The cell phone can listen to you as well as track you. The trail we leave on the internet has been easy pickings for a long time. The number of cameras everywhere combined with satellite and drones is on the increase by the minute. It is easiest for our own government to spy on us but there are others loving it as well.
Whether or not our information is useful to them is no longer our decision. It is their decision.

We are being experimented on without our direct knowledge. The information package they can put together without our consent becomes part of these mass experiments. Individuality also becomes source material for all manner of variable studies and modeling probabilities.

What we have now is a momentary place on an increasing continuum.

Yeah, this and now the increasing presence of those drones. What are we gonna do now?
 
It looks like we need "Government Book" to believe in government.

Watch South Park - Let Go, Let Gov episode - closed captioning included.
http://beta.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/season-17?view=grid&sort=airdate

Let praying to government.

"Hello President Obama and Governor Bentley, I hopefully that you save our life and I admitted that I was speeding by 5 MPH over speed limit on highway today because I don't pay attention to speedometer. I noticed that state trooper is behind of me and they don't bother to pull me over. Please could you forgive me and I'm being thankful to FBI and state trooper."

:lol: :lol: :lol:
 
not, if you put a small piece of brown paper then tape that on top.
Right, if something other than the tape is touching the lens. But just a piece of tape by itself will gunk up the lens. That's why the article suggested a Post-It note. Put the sticky part on the case, and the paper part covering the lens.

I'm waiting for some entrepreneur to invent a lens cover that is stylish and easy to use--the market is available.
 
Right, if something other than the tape is touching the lens. But just a piece of tape by itself will gunk up the lens. That's why the article suggested a Post-It note. Put the sticky part on the case, and the paper part covering the lens.

I'm waiting for some entrepreneur to invent a lens cover that is stylish and easy to use--the market is available.

Hmmmm. What would you call it, though? SnoopBlock? ;)
 
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