On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 20:54 -0500, Christopher Beland wrote: >> * Accessing a webcam or microphone remotely and unexpectedly viewing >> or >> listening to a local user. > > This seems quite tricky to formulate to me; I can certainly see all > sorts of legitimate scenarios for remote access to such devices which > you wouldn't want to do as root. I'm not sure if we can really include > this as-is. Yes.. but I can't see many that would be allowed by default. The issue in writing a policy is looking at what is set by default. Yes you can set up ways and have business reasons for doing so.. but I can't come up with one where by default someone can come into a computer and turn on the camera... In all cases, its where someone has made a decision that this is how things should be and should change the settings to do so. There are quite a few videos of hackers breaking into systems and turning on cameras and videos for their 'pleasure'. Also cases of blackmail where some kid has been asked for more compromising pictures. -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
