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Re: GCHQ hacking webcams

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On Saturday 01 March 2014 18:39, Hils conveyed the following to 
comp.misc...

> 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.

I don't know whether the GCHQ are doing that, but the NSA certainly are, 
and that's a given.  The NSA use backdoors in Microsoft Windows to put 
objectionable pornography onto the computers of suspected dissidents of 
the oligarchy.  

Considering the similarities in lack of ethics between both alphabet 
soup agencies, I would imagine that the GCHQ might possibly be doing the 
same thing.

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= Aragorn =

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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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