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Aix posted:if you cover your notebook webcam im going to assume you masturbate in front of the computer and touch it without washing your hands afterwards so dont do that you gross freak. nobody covers their phone front camera either so get real You'd be surprised, I've seen at least 3 people cover their work laptop and/or phone cameras. In some companies it's seal the camera or hand over the phone for later retrieval when going into secure areas.
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gschmidl posted:You'd be surprised, I've seen at least 3 people cover their work laptop and/or phone cameras. Some computers even have a built in piece of plastic you can slide for coverage/uncoverage
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Dec 18, 2017 11:40
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Covering the camera is the dumbest loving thing to do. Hackers can listen to your microphone, see what's on your screen, track your position, intercept your network traffic and browse your files to steal them on your PC, your mobile devices and your cloud accounts. No hackers but the most basic of bitches would care what's in front of your camera.
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Dec 18, 2017 14:25
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Jokes on them for having to watch me staring at a screen doing nothing for 9 hours a day every day only to find out I don't jack off standing up in front of my laptop like a moron
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Dec 18, 2017 14:33
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There's been some cases of hackers perving on teenage girls undressing in their rooms, so if you tend to have your laptop open in the room where also your wardrobe and bed is (as I guess plenty of teenagers/college students do) and don't want to unknowingly become a camgirl, then I guess it's a legit enough reason to cover it up 
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Dec 18, 2017 15:03
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That whole exchange was definitely "this is what I would say to justify covering my webcam if someone were to call me out on it" but then it never happens so they dump it on the internet instead
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Dec 18, 2017 15:07
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evobatman posted:Covering the camera is the dumbest loving thing to do. Hackers can listen to your microphone, see what's on your screen, track your position, intercept your network traffic and browse your files to steal them on your PC, your mobile devices and your cloud accounts. No hackers but the most basic of bitches would care what's in front of your camera. Yeah but if I'm working at home I don't want to accidentally send a pic of my balls to the company Yammer or something.
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Dec 18, 2017 15:29
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Zuckerberg, Mueller, and the everyone at the nsa cover their cameras so it seems like a decent idea
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The thing where some high school IT security department took a bunch of pictures of some kid in his underwear while in his bedroom kind of makes it a good idea too.
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There's also the fact that it's really easy to do and undo so why the hell not.
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evobatman posted:Covering the camera is the dumbest loving thing to do. Hackers can listen to your microphone, see what's on your screen, track your position, intercept your network traffic and browse your files to steal them on your PC, your mobile devices and your cloud accounts. No hackers but the most basic of bitches would care what's in front of your camera. "Locking your door is the dumbest loving thing to do. Burglars can break your windows, smash the door down with a ram, impersonate a police officer and con their way inside and forge your signature to steal money straight from your bank. No burglars but the most basic of bitches would care whether your door was locked or not." 
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Dec 18, 2017 21:24
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Why would you also want to give a hacker full HD video of you jackin' it if they've already compromised your household accounts? You've got enough problems at that point.
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The_White_Crane posted:"Locking your door is the dumbest loving thing to do. Burglars can break your windows, smash the door down with a ram, impersonate a police officer and con their way inside and forge your signature to steal money straight from your bank. No burglars but the most basic of bitches would care whether your door was locked or not." yah that's a terrible analogy, online security and physical security aren't remotely same in execution.
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Dec 18, 2017 22:44
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A compromised webcam can easily generate blackmail material. Any decent exploit kit includes modules to make it super easy including turning off the activity light. One topless (or bottomless) shot could be used in so many ways. If the victim is a teenage, it can be even worse (and they are more likely to be targets of just-smart-enough-to-be-dangerous hacker / bullies, too). An open mic? What are they going to get? The sound of me typing and listening to Christmas music?
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As far as concerned you can all have a video of me jacking it. Check your inbox 
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NAR posted:(The first day of kindergarten, we get to choose anywhere we want to sit. Unknown to us, these seats are put on the seating chart. The next time, I want to sit somewhere different.) These are... 5 and 6 year olds, right? That's kindergarten age? I've worked with kids of that age and yeah no, what?
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Dec 18, 2017 23:13
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"That's against the constitution!" said the five year old child
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"are you in your seats from last week?" says the teacher, on my second day in this place
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Furia posted:"That's against the constitution!" said the five year old child In all fairness, kindergartners are the original sovereign citizens. "Nuh uh, you can't give me timeout! You're a maritime jurisdiction!" *gets put in timeout anyways* "Buh-but you're a maritime jurisdiction!" 
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Dec 19, 2017 01:30
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If it turned out that kid was Albert Einstein who turned into an American eagle and flew away shedding a silent tear for liberty, that would be the most stdh that ever didn't happen. 
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:If it turned out that kid was Albert Einstein who turned into an American eagle and flew away shedding a silent tear for liberty, that would be the most stdh that ever didn't happen. Only if someone also yelled out "i volunteer as tribute"/"troll in the dungeon" and someone turned purple and their jaw hit the floor, and then someone's phone went off and the ringtone was the tardis noise and they married a girl who recognized it.
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https://www.theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149
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evobatman posted:Covering the camera is the dumbest loving thing to do. Hackers can listen to your microphone, see what's on your screen, track your position, intercept your network traffic and browse your files to steal them on your PC, your mobile devices and your cloud accounts. No hackers but the most basic of bitches would care what's in front of your camera. You know, the average person can take ONE step by taping over their camera. They are not going to singlehandedly defeat the digital underworld in daily hacking. So why not let them take that one step that makes them feel better? Besides, there have been more than a few cases of RAT-based sextortion...
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Dec 19, 2017 03:35
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I am like 98% sure a high school or college over in the ol US of A used the webcams on their school laptops to view and take photos of their students. What possible reason could you have to not cover the camera on your laptop at this point is my thinking.
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eating only apples posted:Teacher: “Now, listen: there will be no uprisings in my class this year!” Is she saying she's had kindergarten uprisings before?
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Biplane posted:I am like 98% sure a high school or college over in the ol US of A used the webcams on their school laptops to view and take photos of their students. What possible reason could you have to not cover the camera on your laptop at this point is my thinking. Oh it's happened.
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I, too, remember pretty much all of kindergarten word-for-word and was the most precocious kindergartener ever
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Elizabethan Error posted:yah that's a terrible analogy, online security and physical security aren't remotely same in execution. It's a great analogy. Most door locks are one step up from useless, and even if they're not, there's dozens of other ways to break into a house. But it keeps out the opportunist criminal who is going through a neighbourhood checking doors to see if they were left unlocked. Same thing with covering your webcam: there's a dozen other ways you can get hacked, sure, but it will stop some random anon from grabbing at low hanging fruit. Samizdata posted:You know, the average person can take ONE step by taping over their camera. They are not going to singlehandedly defeat the digital underworld in daily hacking. So why not let them take that one step that makes them feel better? Besides, there have been more than a few cases of RAT-based sextortion... Exactly. If your poo poo gets hacked, then yeah, your identity gets stolen and it sucks rear end. But if you didn't cover up your webcam, then your poo poo gets hacked, your identity gets stolen, it sucks rear end, and also dozens of videos of you masturbating get uploaded to 4chan.
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eating only apples posted:These are... 5 and 6 year olds, right? That's kindergarten age? I've worked with kids of that age and yeah no, what? That's where you call shenanigans? Not that someone can remember that much of kindergarten? I don't even remember what the room of my kindergarten looked like or the teacher or if I ever got in trouble? I do believe the kid would think his parents would be pissed if he went home with the word "fail" on his forehead though. Only if I were a parent it wouldn't be the kid I'd be mad at but the teacher because 
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EKDS5k posted:It's a great analogy. Most door locks are one step up from useless, and even if they're not, there's dozens of other ways to break into a house. But it keeps out the opportunist criminal who is going through a neighbourhood checking doors to see if they were left unlocked. Same thing with covering your webcam: there's a dozen other ways you can get hacked, sure, but it will stop some random anon from grabbing at low hanging fruit. Right. And I don't want any lamefags watching me wank.
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There was a thing recently in the middle east of people getting blackmailed from being conned into jerking off over webcam via a fake profile on Facebook with a prerecorded video. This gets recorded then threatened to have it shown to all if they don't pay up. In this case they play up heavily on the amount of shame most Arab blokes would feel if their family saw them doing this. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37735369
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Biplane posted:I am like 98% sure a high school or college over in the ol US of A used the webcams on their school laptops to view and take photos of their students. What possible reason could you have to not cover the camera on your laptop at this point is my thinking. There was a scumbag hacker who would leave this error message on young women's macbooks " "You should fix your internal sensor soon. If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor."" He apparently was quite successful at getting naked pictures, since his victims would just leave the laptop in the bathroom while showering
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Tunicate posted:There was a scumbag hacker who would leave this error message on young women's macbooks The thing I don't get is that people think 'hmm yeah gonna leave my electronics running next to a hot shower, this is a good idea.' Why not boil the kettle and leave it next to a cup of hot water or something.
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EKDS5k posted:. Same thing with covering your webcam: there's a dozen other ways you can get hacked, sure, but it will stop some random anon from grabbing at low hanging fruit. In this situation, the low hanging fruit is an analogy for your nuts.
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   Random dog laxatives in the company break room fridge   Nerd power fantasy.  Muhahaha 600 calories. Count yourself vanquished, girl. 
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Why did that last person use a bandaid to stick their message to the wall? Did they not have sellotape?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402502/Vancouver-woman-Kayla-Smith-gets-stolen-bike-seeing-sale-Craigslist.html
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EKDS5k posted:It's a great analogy. Most door locks are one step up from useless, and even if they're not, there's dozens of other ways to break into a house. But it keeps out the opportunist criminal who is going through a neighbourhood checking doors to see if they were left unlocked. Same thing with covering your webcam: there's a dozen other ways you can get hacked, sure, but it will stop some random anon from grabbing at low hanging fruit.
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Elizabethan Error posted:it's still a terrible analogy(webcams don't provide entry to anything) and you're missing the point: if they can see your webcam, they're ALREADY INSIDE your computer and can access more damaging info(like login info, banking info etc.) Banking info, piffle. They might see my peener!
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Indolent Bastard posted:Banking info, piffle. They might see my peener! I mean, what if your bank uses dick prints to validate transactions?
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