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What are y'alls thoughts on putting tape over a webcam? Silly or not?
Posted on 1/31/16 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 1/31/16 at 2:03 pm
For those that do it, why do you do it? Also, what other privacy practices do you follow?
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Posted on 1/31/16 at 2:07 pm to LSUlunatic
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Silly
Posted on 1/31/16 at 2:16 pm to LSUlunatic
The one on my desktop gets put up when I'm not using it. Laptop one doesn't get tape or anything because, frankly, IDGAF
Posted on 1/31/16 at 2:21 pm to LSUlunatic
I put tape on my laptop, but only because it would glare in my eye every afternoon. If some CIA idiot wants to watch me walk around in my underwear scratching my hairy beer gut, they can let me know and I'll take it off.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 5:19 pm to LSUlunatic
Postage stamp over mine.
Can't have a dark web'r recording me while I'm researching porn. Then blackmail me by threatening to show my FB friends/family.
I'd pay too. My grandmother is on there. And my super christian side of the family.
Holy cow would I pay.
Can't have a dark web'r recording me while I'm researching porn. Then blackmail me by threatening to show my FB friends/family.
I'd pay too. My grandmother is on there. And my super christian side of the family.
Holy cow would I pay.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 6:28 pm to Chuker
On the surface, that sounds a little ridiculous. However, if there's a non-zero probability of something like that ever happening, it's rational IMO. Has anything liked you described ever happened? What about your phone?
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:00 pm to LSUlunatic
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Has anything liked you described ever happened?
Have no idea. The thought just came to me one day when I was "researching". I certainly don't consider it out of the realm of possibilities though. If someone can hack your webcam then I'm sure they can record it as well. Talk about being in a compromised position though....face clearly visible and this and that...yeesh.
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What about your phone?
Nah. Don't care if someone records anything on there.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 8:07 pm to LSUlunatic
yup
white electrical
I have more than one, and they're all taped up
white electrical
I have more than one, and they're all taped up
This post was edited on 1/31/16 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 1/31/16 at 9:38 pm to LSUlunatic
I do not put tape on my cam. But I also don't even have the drivers installed for the cam.
Posted on 1/31/16 at 10:11 pm to LSUlunatic
I recently witnessed a 50-something year old Co worker sit shirtless and pick his nose for a solid 15 minutes while his Webcam was inadvertently turned on during a conference call (we all wfh). So yeah, I have my cam covered.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 9:19 am to AnonymousTiger
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So yeah, I have my cam covered.
would you really want to take a chance & find out a month later there was a security hole that hackers had taken advantage of to turn on your cam? its happened several times in the past.
just ask the fappening celebrities how they feel about how secure their cloud solutions were.
This post was edited on 2/1/16 at 9:20 am
Posted on 2/1/16 at 9:21 am to CAD703X
Posted on 2/1/16 at 9:35 am to LSUlunatic
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On the surface, that sounds a little ridiculous. However, if there's a non-zero probability of something like that ever happening, it's rational IMO. Has anything liked you described ever happened? What about your phone?
How so? Even major organizations with some of the most secure networks in the world get compromised. The latest example is NASA:
LINK
This post was edited on 2/1/16 at 9:37 am
Posted on 2/1/16 at 1:33 pm to LSUlunatic
If you download a lot of torrents, I would recommend it. Some of those files apparently have malware installed that allow the tPOS's to see you.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 1:51 pm to idlewatcher
this is why i opt for streaming movies from my android to my chromecast instead of grabbing random russian torrents.
having said that, if you don't know the difference between a media file and an EXE posing as a media file..you have no business on some sketchy-arse website downloading Frozen.
having said that, if you don't know the difference between a media file and an EXE posing as a media file..you have no business on some sketchy-arse website downloading Frozen.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 7:39 pm to LSUlunatic
I do it, better safe than sorry.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 11:54 am to CAD703X
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downloading Frozen.
You got me! lmao
Posted on 2/2/16 at 1:35 pm to LSUlunatic
Years ago I got a new company laptop. That night at home it was dark and I was working and notice a Webcam. I got some tape and covered it. Months later while opening the laptop, the tape fell off. After closer inspection, I was a hole for a screw, not a Web cam
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