Allegedly, on or about 29 June 2017, stan sent: > after the comments in this thread, I think maybe I'm not paranoid > enough. That the IT security professionals are paranoid enough to > cover their cameras? If they're that worried they're vulnerable, it's > a good bet I should be. :-) It's not as far-fetched as you might think. One day I noticed, while in the middle of browsing, that the "camera is on" LED had lit up, though not noticing *when* it came on. I wasn't doing anything nefarious, so somewhere in the midst of a pile of ordinary websites I'd browsed through, one of them was a nosey parker. The galling thing is that at no time was I asked to permit it to happen, and my browser was set up so that it should. So, my laptop's built in camera is taped over, too. If it weren't such a near-impossible task, I'd unplug the damn thing. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 (always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on) Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. A positive attitude is worth the effort if it annoys enough people. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
