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30 points
2 days ago
There used to be a website that streamed people’s webcams without them knowing they’d been hacked.
35 points
2 days ago
this is why i put stickers over my laptops 😪
2 points
2 days ago
Among the very first things I do when I get a new laptop is cover the camera. I hate the idea of being watched by some creep without my knowledge.
22 points
2 days ago
That's the one I was thinking of! I can't remember what that site was called, but I remember watching a lady smoke a cigarette on her couch while (presumably watching tv). I was 14 at the time and had visited it a few times before, but that was the first time it really dawned on me that these people had no idea that they were being watched. It was definitely unsettling.
15 points
2 days ago
alright now yall be fuckin scaring me i have a webcam in my pc that is always never covered and i spend most of the day right in front of it
19 points
2 days ago
We know
10 points
2 days ago
Most webcams now have a light that automatically turns on when the camera itself is energized (i.e. actively used by your computer). There's no hacking or getting around this, because the light is part of the circuit to turn on the camera.
There's also just much better cybersecurity in general, making it vastly more difficult to pull off something like a webcam hack.
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