GCHQ hacking webcams

From	Hils <hils@saynotospam.net>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	GCHQ hacking webcams
Date	2014-02-27 18:09 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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"Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National
Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of
internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.

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. [...]"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

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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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