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Warning: Cover Up Your Webcam When Not In Use

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By Fox Van Allen 

Childnet International, a non-profit working to keep kids safe on the Internet, has issued a stern warning to computer owners today: Hackers can take over webcams without your knowledge, so keep them covered up when not in use.

Once your computer is infected by a Trojan virus – often acquired by visiting the wrong website or by opening malicious email attachments – criminals can control your webcam without your knowledge. These types of hackings are rapidly becoming big business: The BBC has uncovered an entire industry centering on the buying and selling of access to compromised webcams, especially those owned by women.

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    • Confederate

      The 1 in 40 articles posted on BIN that tells the truth & not a bunch of fear mongering! This is true & I have been telling this to people for years now & this should be a no brainer, but most people have no brains so…… It’s not just hackers doing this (though they are the most prolific) but the government does it as well!

      • DIgnified

        This probably goes without saying at this point, but this applies to cell phones as well. Most new phones have at least 2 cameras, one or more on reach side, and a microphone.

        It’s not a Brave New World we’re in, it’s a effed up world. :neutral:

      • The Secret Behind Communism

        I like BIN. They aren’t state-run, that’s for sure. I’d have been banned by now. Nothing else matters to me other than that they are not compromised. There are two other sites similar in subject matter and activity: they are both compromised, and one of them literally assumes visitors going there for the first time comply to a one time port scan. In any forum in which there isn’t heavy handed moderation that serves some biased interests, you get some fluff.

        • Boxed in Freight

          Why, all of the new game consoles have a camera system that records everything in the room where you have it, family, friends, everyone. Worst of all, every console is always on the Web always live. :lol: :lol: :lol:

    • LightandLife

      this is nonsense

    • iamamerican

      My pc camera was covered up 4 years ago and still is.

    • thepatriot

      Abraham Lincoln once said “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.” My fellow patriots that day has past and we know his suspicions were correct. We have lost our liberties one by one, our government is ruled by the corporations, Prisons are full of people that are no danger to society with some individuals locked up with no trial or an unfair trial because they do not have money to mount a proper defense in court and people are suffering. We are now forced to rely on the government to keep us fed, warm at night, money in our pockets, to get us jobs and the list goes on. we are disabled by the government. we don’t have liberty. we have a government that has false pretenses of loving liberty. our move as patriots needs to begin now we need to come together now. we need to have meetings in every town across America. every man and women needs to do there part to change our government back to for the people and by the people. we the people need to write ourselves into history for changing our government to being for the people or we the people have no future at all. the entire tax code is corrupt and needs to be re-written and equal for every person regardless of business, corporation, individual origin. it needs to be clear and short with something that is readable by 1 person(100 pages or less) not 97,000 pages. currently it is full of loopholes that were bribed into our governments tax pages. corporation have have exploited our tax code using lobbyists to buy politicians. currently these corporations are guilty of using this corrupt tax code to funnel money into offshore corporations then funnel it to a tertiary offshore business or just a P.O. box to make gains and not pay taxes. this is done with billions of dollars. this is what is causing economic turmoil for example, schools keep loosing funding, lost jobs, foreclosed homes high medicine prices, grater inflation (the hidden tax). the stock market has been taken over by the top 1%. The government spies on everyone. Almost all land in the US is partially owned or owned by banks or the top 1% not the people. These banks use the tax code to not pay their taxes. how do we stop this treason at the highest levels. we have a lot of work ahead of us. It has gone on way to long.

    • Drew B

      Small spot band-aids work very well. Mine has been covered for several years now by the same band-aid.

      • simplelifecreations

        I covered mine with a tiny picture of an ass.

    • judas iscariot

      I wonder if this applies to iPhones. Is the NSA watching me text n drive?

      • judas iscariot

        :lol:

    • Anonymous

      I really do not care if the perverts are watching me.

    • Manny

      Don’t masturbate in front of the computer anymore, got it :P

    • Apollon

      I just put a photo of my dogs ass in front of cam. Oh boy :mrgreen:

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