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Cameras on Laptops
    #19281776 - 12/15/13 11:21 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'm getting a little suspicious of cameras on laptops.

I've heard that they can be activated without the user's consent.

I've put electrical tape over mine.

Am I being paranoid? :paranoid:

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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
    #19282358 - 12/16/13 03:45 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Slightly. I mean tape on the camera is so easy though, so why not right?

I'm not sure how to check, but I feel it would be hard to activate a camera without the indicator light going on. I mean you can't even disable that light if you wanted to.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: chowster]
    #19282392 - 12/16/13 04:10 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

That's ridiculous.  Coded instructions dictate when the light comes on and when it doesn't.  Cameras don't need an "indicator light" to function, though the image may be less clear without background flash/lighting.


Definitely something to be worried about, especially considering the fix is so simple.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Humility]
    #19283067 - 12/16/13 10:05 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

If someone hacks your laptop they can turn the camera on. 

Whether it is possible to turn it on without the light coming on depends on the design of the camera.

Old laptops are a great source of tiny, cheap usb cameras.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19283740 - 12/16/13 12:46 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

plenty of articles about FBI, NSA and other hackers tapping into all kinds of cameras.

it probly wont happen to you in your life time but that also doesnt mean it wont.

my girlfriend and I threw some tape up and turn the xbox kinect towards the wall when not in use


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Humility]
    #19285914 - 12/16/13 08:42 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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That's ridiculous.  Coded instructions dictate when the light comes on and when it doesn't.  Cameras don't need an "indicator light" to function, though the image may be less clear without background flash/lighting.


Definitely something to be worried about, especially considering the fix is so simple.



Lol per computer model tho?
No one is coding for all the computers models made.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: chowster]
    #19285991 - 12/16/13 09:04 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

my newer computer doesn't have a indicator light been meaning to tape it. going to garage to get tape right now. :paranoid:


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: chowster]
    #19286050 - 12/16/13 09:23 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Lol per computer model tho?
No one is coding for all the computers models made.



Honestly I have several laptops and none of them have indicator lights on the cameras :shrug:

For a hacker probably difficult; for The Man with the cooperation of Apple and Microsoft, I'm sure that it's piece of cake; a simple remote call to turn the camera on, pipe the results back through the 'net, and take a nice little secret peek inside peoples' homes. Mind-bogglingly simple.

I've seen stories about this...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/12/pennsylvania.school.webcams.settlement/



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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
    #19286584 - 12/16/13 11:28 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Funkay, all mine have lights.

Good to know. Maybe I prefer the light.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: chowster]
    #19287907 - 12/17/13 10:25 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Funkay, all mine have lights.

Good to know. Maybe I prefer the light.




Doesn't matter.  They can turn your camera on without any indicator lights turning on if thats what they want


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Herbologist]
    #19289096 - 12/17/13 03:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Doesn't matter.  They can turn your camera on without any indicator lights turning on if thats what they want





Citation needed.

I just looked at a laptop camera circuit board and it looked like it was wired so the LED comes on whenever the camera is activated.  There does not appear to be any way to do it in software; you would have to take apart the laptop if you wanted to make that modification.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Alan Rockefeller] * 2
    #19289363 - 12/17/13 04:21 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

"The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations, said Marcus Thomas, former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational Technology Division in Quantico, now on the advisory board of Subsentio, a firm that helps telecommunications carriers comply with federal wiretap statutes."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Enlil]
    #19290905 - 12/17/13 10:29 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)



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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19292484 - 12/18/13 09:15 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Basically the same concept as turning on a phone's microphone remotely.



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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #19292736 - 12/18/13 10:36 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

If you want to get freaked out, Google "Remote Access Tool"

It's not just the FBI and NSA who can get into computers and control them. Teenagers are doing it for fun. They spam out links that, if clicked, give them access to the user's computer without that user's knowledge. Then they start messing with the person by deleting files, playing scary or obscene videos, etc.

They watch the person's shocked and distressed reactions through the camera and capture the video so they can upload it and share it with friends for the lulz.

A RAT is astonishingly easy to deploy on someone who is not security savvy (i.e., the majority of people). You don't have to be a computer expert to do it, you could learn it in one day. Given that the US government can get a virus into an Iranian nuclear facility, it's a trivial matter for it to use a RAT. The obstacles would not be technical, but rather legal, economic, etc.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: JB76]
    #19292778 - 12/18/13 10:50 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)



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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: JB76]
    #19295192 - 12/18/13 09:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

My camera has been hacked. Whoever hacked it displayed a video of me jacking off on my screen.
I keep a piece of tape over it now. Jacking off knowing someone might be watching  :feelsweirdman:


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19295460 - 12/18/13 10:14 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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luvdemboomers said:
My camera has been hacked. Whoever hacked it displayed a video of me jacking off on my screen.
I keep a piece of tape over it now. Jacking off knowing someone might be watching  :feelsweirdman:



Lol that sucks. They'd have lots of footage of me doing that if my desktop had a cam hooked in.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: chowster]
    #19302117 - 12/20/13 09:55 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Quote:

luvdemboomers said:
My camera has been hacked. Whoever hacked it displayed a video of me jacking off on my screen.
I keep a piece of tape over it now. Jacking off knowing someone might be watching  :feelsweirdman:



Lol that sucks. They'd have lots of footage of me doing that if my desktop had a cam hooked in.



Have we just discovered a new porn category here!?

Hacked webcam vids of people spanking their monkey to porn!!! :awesome:

a.k.a. "Hacking Off" for short--a portmanteau word combining "Squirting," "Hacking," and "Jerking Off!"

Whacking off to a vid of someone whacking off to porn! How ironic... file this one under /gif/ on 4chan!

Anyone here Japanese?

Technically speaking, we could also call it "Recursive masturbation."

Now, that's the value of brainstorming. :wink:

(Maybe I need to get out more...)


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
    #19304386 - 12/20/13 06:27 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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ch1ck3n.s0up said:
Quote:

chowster said:
Quote:

luvdemboomers said:
My camera has been hacked. Whoever hacked it displayed a video of me jacking off on my screen.
I keep a piece of tape over it now. Jacking off knowing someone might be watching  :feelsweirdman:



Lol that sucks. They'd have lots of footage of me doing that if my desktop had a cam hooked in.



Have we just discovered a new porn category here!?

Hacked webcam vids of people spanking their monkey to porn!!! :awesome:

a.k.a. "Hacking Off" for short--a portmanteau word combining "Squirting," "Hacking," and "Jerking Off!"

Whacking off to a vid of someone whacking off to porn! How ironic... file this one under /gif/ on 4chan!

Anyone here Japanese?

Technically speaking, we could also call it "Recursive masturbation."

Now, that's the value of brainstorming. :wink:

(Maybe I need to get out more...)



LOL


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19307673 - 12/21/13 11:56 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

"Hacking off" lol.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up] * 1
    #19310099 - 12/22/13 12:27 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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ch1ck3n.s0up said:
Technically speaking, we could also call it "Recursive masturbation."




A whole new programming technique!

Wacking off to someone wacking off to someone wacking off [...] to someone wacking off to porn.

Each level of recursion gives you more wacking off power.  When you reach level 10 you become a master hackoffer.

LOL


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
    #19314510 - 12/23/13 02:33 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

You've gone tinfoil brother.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
    #19440623 - 01/19/14 12:47 AM (10 years, 12 days ago)

You probably are being a little paranoid, but that depends on your situation. You can have malware that will activate your web cams for example. Or if you're the target of a federal investigation, they could potentially activate it.

Electrical tape just prevents the video from showing up, but the microphone would still be recording :P


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Anonymous #2] * 1
    #19441185 - 01/19/14 05:08 AM (10 years, 12 days ago)

There's been some news stories that the government has been putting actual hardware into computers for spying purposes.  I think that was even on Colbert.

One thing nobody's mentioned is that a speaker works just like a microphone.  So even with no microphone someone could use your speakers as a microphone.  Most audio chips now can route the signals around however they want, so this would be no problem to a skilled programmer.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
    #19445962 - 01/20/14 04:04 AM (10 years, 11 days ago)

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ch1ck3n.s0up said:
I'm getting a little suspicious of cameras on laptops.

I've heard that they can be activated without the user's consent.

I've put electrical tape over mine.

Am I being paranoid? :paranoid:

:feelsparanoidman:



I call that smart, not paranoid.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: FreeTheSoul]
    #19450297 - 01/20/14 10:30 PM (10 years, 10 days ago)

i have tape over my camera and disabled my inbuilt microphone, if someone wanted to they can capture video and audio from a hacked laptop.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up] * 1
    #19506683 - 02/01/14 03:30 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

A little paranoia doesn't hurt. Didn't read thread but it's well documented that the FBI and other agencies have been able to remotely activate your camera/mic without your knowledge or consent.

Also the NSA has been putting backdoor hardware mods and spy malware into new laptops and smartphones. http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-laptop-usb-plant-spy


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    #19506714 - 02/01/14 03:36 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Shroomism]
    #19559997 - 02/13/14 01:35 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

Idk if anyone here has had the cyber security child porn virus but it hacks your web cam and completely locks out your computer. I was using my laptop once when I had the feeling that someone was watching me I went to get tape and came back to a computer that was locked out and my camera was hacked I fixed the virus but since then I've kept 3 layer of masking tape over my web cam I'm not worried about the mic at all though.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up] * 1
    #20418262 - 08/14/14 02:56 PM (9 years, 5 months ago)

I have blue talk over mine


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: brian-trousers]
    #20426335 - 08/16/14 09:10 AM (9 years, 5 months ago)

Why would you tape it?  I want them to see me walking around naked


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #20461669 - 08/22/14 08:17 PM (9 years, 5 months ago)

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Citation needed.




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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: TaiJi]
    #20521649 - 09/04/14 10:13 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

That's OK... this post is still highly relevant.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: ch1ck3n.s0up]
    #20547893 - 09/10/14 12:56 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

As far as the legality goes, the govt does not worry about little stuff like that anymore. They just say the magic words "terrorism investigation" and its all good, no matter how big a lie it is.

I used to read about little old ladies who thought people on tv could see them in their homes. They were just a little ahead of the curve. Now the only ones who trust the govt are fools.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Stonehenge]
    #20566753 - 09/14/14 02:39 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

About 50 bucks can get you a fully undetected (no antiviruses detect them) RAT with abilities to access webcam, stored passwords, anything typed (keylogger), ect. They are incredibly easy to setup. As far as I know, all of the RATs I've seen still trigger the webcam light. However new RATs have been coded in java allowing them to infect mac windows and linux so keep an eye out be careful stay safe!

All that being said it would be entirely illegal for both the government or a civilian to do without the computer owner's consent, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: gardenstate] * 2
    #20567670 - 09/14/14 06:28 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

As if the government gives a shit what's illegal or not, the rules don't apply to them.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Shroomism]
    #20568949 - 09/14/14 10:20 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

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As if the government gives a shit what's illegal or not, the rules don't apply to them.



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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: gardenstate]
    #20571641 - 09/15/14 05:26 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

Seen more an more people do this now, even the oldies are onto it since it came out that smartTVs were spying on people or something, ya know, for 'advertising' purposes...


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: asterical]
    #20681497 - 10/09/14 07:28 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

Nothing is safe.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: DeltaCepheid]
    #20681924 - 10/09/14 09:12 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

My webcam was hacked before. Light kept going on. Eventually I caught on and flipped the camera off, and whomever was watching me proceeded to scare the shit out of my by taking control of my computer and making a scary pop up go onto my computer. I shut my computer off and wiped everything on my hard drive after that without even backing up my stuff. No regrets.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: PatrickKn]
    #20682182 - 10/09/14 10:48 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

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Nothing is safe.





That's not true - lots of things are safe.    People who get hacked have terroribly insecure computers / never run updates, or don't understand computer security.

Regarding cameras on laptops, they can't see anything if you tape over them.

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My webcam was hacked before. Light kept going on. Eventually I caught on and flipped the camera off, and whomever was watching me proceeded to scare the shit out of my by taking control of my computer and making a scary pop up go onto my computer. I shut my computer off and wiped everything on my hard drive after that without even backing up my stuff. No regrets.





You could have just disabled your wireless card / unplugged the network cable, then back everything up and reinstall.    No reason to delete all your data just because someone takes control of your computer.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #20686344 - 10/10/14 10:23 PM (9 years, 3 months ago)

I brake my cameras and so on. I don't use em so why need em?


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #20695737 - 10/13/14 04:43 AM (9 years, 3 months ago)

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DeltaCepheid said:
Nothing is safe.





That's not true - lots of things are safe.    People who get hacked have terroribly insecure computers / never run updates, or don't understand computer security.





That might be true for RAT's but I got the above mentioned "FBI virus", just from going to a single sketchy website. Everything was updated and I didn't download any software. It's like a pop up you can't get rid of. It seizes control of your webcam and you see a picture of yourself fapping, its unnerving. It tries to get you to send money to have your "file closed". I had to do system restore in safe mode to get rid of it. There have been people who turned themselves in thinking the warning was real, that blows my mind. Pretty sure police don't tell you that you are under investigation or ask for fees.
RAT porn videos are a whole genre now. I did a little looking around and they love Acer laptops for the lack of a light. But you still need to click a link for them to get it on your PC, they don't actually do any real "hacking". The government OTH probably just has stuff installed when the thing is made.
I heard a rumor about pedos driving around hacking wi fi's and watching kids webcams, but that sounds like a urban legend.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Anonymous #4]
    #20696206 - 10/13/14 09:53 AM (9 years, 3 months ago)

If everything was updated, you wouldn't get hacked by just going to a website unless it was using a zero day vulnerability, which is extremely rare.  No one is going to waste a zero day vulnerability on something like that.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #20790778 - 11/04/14 12:03 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

Good to know I'm not the only paranoid one when it comes to taping over the camera.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Anonymous #4]
    #20800327 - 11/06/14 07:24 AM (9 years, 2 months ago)

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Anonymous said:
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Alan Rockefeller said:
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DeltaCepheid said:
Nothing is safe.





That's not true - lots of things are safe.    People who get hacked have terroribly insecure computers / never run updates, or don't understand computer security.





That might be true for RAT's but I got the above mentioned "FBI virus", just from going to a single sketchy website. Everything was updated and I didn't download any software. It's like a pop up you can't get rid of. It seizes control of your webcam and you see a picture of yourself fapping, its unnerving. It tries to get you to send money to have your "file closed". I had to do system restore in safe mode to get rid of it. There have been people who turned themselves in thinking the warning was real, that blows my mind. Pretty sure police don't tell you that you are under investigation or ask for fees.
RAT porn videos are a whole genre now. I did a little looking around and they love Acer laptops for the lack of a light. But you still need to click a link for them to get it on your PC, they don't actually do any real "hacking". The government OTH probably just has stuff installed when the thing is made.
I heard a rumor about pedos driving around hacking wi fi's and watching kids webcams, but that sounds like a urban legend.




    I read a story about some guy who got hacked by the fake FBI site. He freaked out and killed himself and his son.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #21055951 - 01/02/15 10:01 AM (9 years, 29 days ago)

Just make sure you also disable it and the microphone in the system settings along with the tape :thumbup:


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: JohnTheRipper]
    #21056256 - 01/02/15 11:07 AM (9 years, 28 days ago)

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Just make sure you also disable it and the microphone in the system settings along with the tape :thumbup:




I had mine disabled (and software for it removed) and it was still hijacked. Pretty sure the only way to ensure your webcam can't be used is to disable it in bios. Someone put an admin password on my bios so I can't even do that. Tape works.


Edited by luvdemboomers (01/02/15 11:07 AM)


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #21057756 - 01/02/15 06:11 PM (9 years, 28 days ago)

No need to stick tape on your computer to cover the camera, that's like building a wall to keep your car in... lol

Just un-install the drivers for it.

PS: webcam cannot be disabled in BIOS. It's not a system device, it's a peripheral like a mouse or keyboard.


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: Northerner]
    #21057839 - 01/02/15 06:31 PM (9 years, 28 days ago)

it can... er could on my hp laptop


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Re: Cameras on Laptops [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #21057921 - 01/02/15 06:59 PM (9 years, 28 days ago)

Must be a OEM BIOS... fair enough.

If you want to remove that password from your BIOS you just eed to remove the CMOS battery for 30 secs and put it back. Will reset the BIOS.


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