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The article doesn't say why but it's because your webcam could be switched on remotely:
http://mashable.com/2016/09/15/fbi-direc...yERIvKKiqf
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I've been doing this since my very first laptop
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09-17-2016, 11:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-17-2016, 11:54 AM by meridannight.)
Yeah, I've been doing this with all my laptops since the first one as well. It's not just that it can be 'hacked', different websites actually try to activate your camera and microphone on a daily basis (you should get the internal microphone of the laptop disabled while you're at it as well).
I don't get it why it's in there in the first place. If you want to input a video separate webcams exist for that purpose to plug into the computer.
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This advice was also given in a news segment yesterday on BBC Radio Four. I have covered my cam up too. You never know.
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And [MENTION=18457]LONDONER[/MENTION], thanks for the tip / reminder.
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You mean complete strangers have been watching me jack off in front of my laptop?? That's hot.
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princealbertofb Wrote:and a lot of tap tap tapping.
What is that?
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