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Re: GCHQ hacking webcams

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On 2014-02-28 15:38, RS Wood wrote:
> I'm imagining this is like a weirdo version of chatroulette where it's
> just you, the other interlocutor, and some creepy government perv
> watching you do nasty things.  How sexy.  Remember when some people
> made an issue out of putting black tape over their web cam, and
> everyone laughed at them for being paranoid maniacs?  Who's laughing
> now, folks?

Ethically it's no different from upskirt cameras and the like, but as
it's being done by agents of the oligarchy, they get away with it. I
wonder if the spooks are building a library of compromising pictures for
later use if they want to discredit potential political opponents.

> One more reason to buy a desktop and monitor - doesn't come with an
> integrated webcam, unlike some laptops (most laptops?).

I run Debian, and the webcam on my laptop is of very poor quality. Next
time I take it on the train, I may stick some bright red opaque tape
over the camera as a kind of mission statement. :-)

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GCHQ hacking webcams Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-27 18:09 +0000
  Re: GCHQ hacking webcams RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-28 15:38 +0000
    Re: GCHQ hacking webcams Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-01 17:39 +0000
      Re: GCHQ hacking webcams Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-01 19:06 +0100

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