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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: GCHQ hacking webcams |
| Date | 2014-02-28 15:38 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <20140228153834.89f4854f.rsw@therandymon.com> (permalink) |
| References | <lenv09$1j4$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:09:17 +0000 Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> wrote: > GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a > surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of > Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, > regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not. > > In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam > imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit > communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts > globally. [...]" This is pretty awful, so I'm glad it's getting picked up by the mainstream press (it was on freaking Yahoo the other day, how much more mainstream can it go?) The world being what it is, I assume the American government is probably doing the same and just hasn't gotten busted yet? I mean, what are the odds the NSA hasn't also been watching you like a ceiling cat? 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? One more reason to buy a desktop and monitor - doesn't come with an integrated webcam, unlike some laptops (most laptops?).
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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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