Covering your laptop camera: would you do it?

Dial Hard · 23-06-2016 12:10PM

aphex™ wrote: »

Its that people can blackmail others (mostly happens to teenagers) and threaten them to send the stuff to family/ friends on facebook etc. Could just be images of people getting changed.

Yeah, well as I said, I'm not in the habit of getting changed in front of my open and on laptop.

In fact now that I think of it, my laptop has never even been in my bedroom.

Letree · 23-06-2016 12:14PM

No

I've had mine covered for years, i don't ever use it.

Winterlong · 23-06-2016 12:15PM

My dashcam has just been returned to me by the Nextbase service department. They left a memory card in it.
Loads of videos of them working in their workshop. There are 3 male employees and 1 female.
There is one particularly good video that has a soldering iron plugged in.
Will sell to highest bidder.

Gatling · 23-06-2016 12:15PM

It was a big problem a few years ago when sickos were targeting young girls and blackmailing them to perform shows of s sexual nature

smash · 23-06-2016 12:16PM

McGruber wrote: »

Just the same with the cameras on your phone.

Careful with the apps you download.

<tinfoil hat>
Every time you open snapchat it takes a photo of your face and sends it to the FBI!
</tinfoil hat>

AnonoBoy · 23-06-2016 12:17PM

Hey - if someone wants to spy on the boring old orgies I'm throwing then I'm ok with that as along as they give us their credit card details as per the site rules.

Barry Badrinath · 23-06-2016 12:21PM

No

smash wrote: »

<tinfoil hat>
Every time you open snapchat it takes a photo of your face and sends it to the FBI!
</tinfoil hat>

Ehrmaigawd!

The FBI are perverts!!!!

Boom_Bap · 23-06-2016 12:21PM

We have a high ranking guy in work who regularly drags me into meetings in his office with a few others. He's have is web cam turned on and spends his time rotating and focusing it on the person in the room who is talking so the meeting on the other side can see who's talking.

Funny thing is that where I sit in his office, the camera can only pick up the side/back of my head.

Anytime I cover mine at home, its ripped off by the missus, she uses video chat quite a bit.

23-06-2016 01:16PM

There is not that much I would be getting up to in my house that anyone would want to watch. If they go to all that trouble to access my domestic life then they are welcome to watch it.

I did drive one of those cars with the "Emergency Radio" that connects you to the call centre if the car does something like registers a crash or some other issues or distress.

I always thought that if I was working in that call centre job I would probably pass the boring moments just randomly tuning into cars to see what they were doing or saying.

I found I did not sing as loud or as crazily while driving that car alone as I do when alone in my own.

RayM · 23-06-2016 01:29PM

You're all looking very well today.

Irish Guitarist · 23-06-2016 01:33PM

I used to disable it in my settings and turn it on when I needed to, which wasn't very often. If you're that worried about people spying on you covering it up won't stop them hearing you through the microphone.

Now I'm using Linux instead of Windows and I think the webcam might be turned off by default. I'm not entirely sure but I'm not paranoid enough to worry about it.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 23-06-2016 01:42PM

No

About a year ago I was browsing through some asian selling site (ala Aliexpress DH-Gate etc) and I got a pop up message from some asian girl telling me she could see me. I closed down the lap top and covered the webcam with black electrical tape. Its been taped up ever since. It freaked me out.

Covering your laptop camera: would you do it?

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