Is NSA Watching Us Through OUr WEbcams?

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I read they were doing this somewhere, can't even remember where.
Years ago, I would have scoffed that off, but now I'm creeped out by it. It was said they could do it without turning the light on, so you would never even know.

(They're probably turning to each other right now going, OMG SHe's ON TO US!")

Put a piece of tape over your web cam, either that or dance seductively and see if you get asked out on a date! =D

They are not watching me unless they can see through three layers of duct tape. I don't know about the drone insects flying around outside my window or buzzing my lampshades.

Surely they would have much better (and more important) things to do with their time, money and resources, which are by no means unlimited.

They're only looking at each person's webcam long enough to get video of him w*king, or picking his nose or something else embarrassing. Then they file that and move on. In the future, whenever there's a politician or journalist or somebody they want to discredit, they'll release a couple choice videos to YouTube and the press, and we'll never look at that person the same way again.

Occams Razor is my weapon of choice. Sure they're able to pull it off but it's far too much effort for far too little gain. Having an entire department watch hundreds of million people jacking off and mooning the cam while dressing is simply uneconomic. Also wouldn't terrorists suspect their webcams in the first place (paranoid as they are) and thus not act suspiciously in any room in which a webcam is installed?

I rarely wear clothes when I'm on my computer (Or any time I don't have to walk outside for that matter) So unless they like seeing a half-naked 18 year old guy I think I'm probably safe.

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You should keep your webcam covered up. Mine is always covered.

The best way to cover a Macbook webcam in a stylish fashion is as follows:

Get some black PVC sticky tape.

Stick a piece of the tape onto some silicone coated backing paper (of the kind on which stickers are supplied).

Get a hole punch and cut out some little round holes from the black tape once you have applied it to the backing paper.

Now peel off one of the little black stickers you just made, and stick it over your webcam.

Voilà.

Now nobody is watching (or if they are, all they're seeing is black).



This method would work for any in-built webcam with a lens roughly the same size as the circles produced by a hole punch.

It looks much neater than just sticking an untidy piece of paper or a messy strip of tape over your camera (and, of course, you can use any colour tape you want. You don't have to use black).

Either stick a wad of chewing gum on that little thing.

Or...just dont ever bow to Mecca in prayer while in front of your Mac, or PC, ! !! !

Even when you tape up your webcam, they can still listen to you, read what you type, view your desktop, and best yet: they can still see you and your movements through your wifi.

How can they see you with out a lens and aperture?