>that guy who puts tape over his laptop's webcam
> that girl who got her webcam masturbation vids leaked
I find it kind of funny when people who claim to be really privacy conscious put something over their webcam. like a video of you naked, changing, masturbating, etc... is anything compared to the fact that the hypothetical intruder can monitor all the business you conduct on your computer, which is basically all the business you conduct.
>>52987555
no offense but that was a really fucking awful post
>>52987640
He's right though.
People are really paranoid with sharing their faces though, it's fucking weird.
>>52987525
>that guy who doesn't
>>52987640
If you don't see the bigger threat being the activity on your computer (compared to exposing yourself/your face), then you're an idiot. I'm not hugely concerned with what you think of my post.
>>52988477
Maybe we all do innocent things on the computer like browse youtube for cat vids.
>owning a device that can potentially spy on you 24/7
>>52988492
I'm not talking about incriminating activities like running Silk Road. I'm talking about checking your bank account, browsing facebook, and accessing your email. If someone got access to any of those three things, they could easily steal money from you directly (in the case of the bank account) or scam friends into sending them money thinking they're sending you money (the "help i'm a friend and i'm trapped in another country please wire me money" scam is about as old as they get, and usually those don't have the benefit of using a totally legitimate account to send from).
>>52987555
It's one layer of protection. The more you have, the better, no? Videos of you doing weird shit can easily put you in incredibly shit situations.
Thinking that a pirate is watching me when I fap make me horny.
>mfw I used to be afraid of using a calculator for simple additions because I thought the calculator makers might have installed a spying chip to see what calculations I made, so they could laugh at my math skills.
>mfw I was a tinfoil hatter when my age was in the single digit.
>>52990081
What you're saying is like arguing for drawing the blinds to prevent anyone from looking into your home after someone has kicked the front door off its hinges.
On the richter scale of "incredibly shit situations", videos of you doing anything that's not a crime is a mild tremor compared to the catastrophe that identity theft represents.
If someone steals your identity, you'll be cleaning up that mess for years, and it's not like something you can just throw your hands up and say "fuck it" about either - proof of identity is fundamentally what everything financial in your life is predicated upon.
If someone can see what's *on* your screen, the shit that's *in front of* it is potentially amusing but ultimately worthless by comparison.
>>52988514
>>>52988492
>If someone got access to any of those three things, they could easily steal money
Priorities, dude. How much of that all-important money would you pay to prevent your mom from seeing you fuck a fleshlight while you tweak your own nipples?
>>52990167
>What you're saying is like arguing for drawing the blinds to prevent anyone from looking into your home after someone has kicked the front door off its hinges.
No it is not, it's like keeping certain valuables in a safe when someone has kicked the front door of it's hinges. It's not like a hacker can see through the tape just because he hacked into the computer.
>>52990167
>If someone can see what's *on* your screen, the shit that's *in front of* it is... ultimately worthless
Prove it with a pic. You know what to do with the sharpie. Dont forget real name and timestamp.
>>52990279
If he can activate the webcam without you knowing, you need to assume he can monitor the activity on the screen as well as keystrokes. Those are trivial in the context of activating a webcam surreptitiously.
Assuming that an intruder hasn't taken the opportunity to do the most damage possible is preposterously - and maybe even dangerously - naive.
>That guy who disregards the safety his data but is paranoid that a low quality picture of his face on the internet somewhere
>>52990167
Perhaps so. But say you manage to find the virus before you have logged in to your bank etc, meaning no identity theft can take place. At that point, some tape over your webcam might have saved you from getting humiliated in front of your friends and family, essentially saving your personal life.
>>52990310
>Assuming that an intruder hasn't taken the opportunity to do the most damage possible is preposterously - and maybe even dangerously - naive.
This would be assuming a targeted attack, which isn't really likely in most cases.
They aren't going to be monitoring every person for hours a day to check their screen and webcam. They'll just be saving the data they specifically need and transmitting it.
>tape over your cam
>use Windows 10
>use Facebook
>use Android with Google stuff all enabled
>use messaging apps that scan your contacts
But good thing you taped off that camera!
>>52990360
>But good thing you taped off that camera!
Now they can't send pics of you with a dragon dildo up your ass to all those contacts of yours, checkmate.
>>52990322
>But say you manage to find the virus before you have logged in to your bank etc, meaning no identity theft can take place.
You have no reason to conclude that you can safely make this assumption unless you know with absolute certainty when the malware got on your system. I don't know if you're honestly trying to convince me that this is a plausible scenario or if you're trying to draw me into a contrived thought experiment. Either way, my answer is no.
>At that point, some tape over your webcam might have saved you from getting humiliated in front of your friends and family, essentially saving your personal life.
Precisely what are you concerned about? Take the rest of today to audit the sort of stuff you do in front of your webcam. You're mostly staring at the screen with a mostly emotionless face and occasionally laughing. You masturbate occasionally and maybe - MAYBE - you change in front of the screen.
None of that is particularly incriminating for a man under 35 years old. Even if someone decided to blackmail you, and even if you told him to go ahead and dump all that data on your family's lap, you could just say "i got a virus, someone has been stalking me, i'm really sorry about all this" and that would be the end of it.
Literally the only reason you would need to be more concerned would be if you staged a crime in front of your laptop - like you molested a child or killed someone and the blackmailer was threatening to turn you in to the police. Short of that, you're stressing about perhaps the most visible but certainly one of the least important aspects of having this kind of intrusion on your machine.
>>52990407
this desu
>Blatantly candid video gets released of you masturbating(at worst)
>No one thinks anything bad about you because it's obvious this was taken without your consent and that this could have happened to anyone including themselves which would be no better
when I still repaired laptops I saw a lot of people come in with their webcam taped off.
Every single one of them was ugly.
>having a laptop with a webcam
Why would I care someone if someone is watching the blank expression on my face?
>>52990338
Your argument seems to be agreeing with me but then you take a left turn at the end.
If someone's committing to a non-targeted attack, they'll probably skim some video footage from the hundreds of people they infect, but more likely than anything else is they'll quickly parse through whatever input and network traffic has been logged. Text is much easier to parse automatically, so they can pore over every website you visit, every form you type into, and figure out what banking system you use and what your password is - and possibly the answers to "security questions" if they need to pretend to be you.
you're actually more likely to want to cover your webcam if the attack is targeted at you. In that case, someone has an axe to grind, and they'll be looking for something embarrassing (but not necessarily looking for evidence of a crime or to commit a crime that could land them in prison, like fraud).
>>52990360
People don't care about corporations having information about them in some database no one looks at.
They care about actual people looking at them through a webcam because they're real people personally watching with their eyes, and not some computer database.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/04/10/israeli-hackers-strike-back-at-anonymous-opisrael-expose-participants-with-their-own-webcams-photos/
>>52990549
why does none of this surprise me at all?
Thanks for reminding me OP. I took it off a while ago. Now it's back on.
>>52990569
>his face
>>52987525
I've seen more girls than anything else do this, actually.
>>52987525
My friend saw me masturbating while wearing a dress so I never want to come across an embarrassing moment like that again so I tape over it.
>>52990767
does making fun of people less fortunate than you make you feel fulfilled?
>>52990549
>>52990569
Does anybody have that image of the shirtless guy with his girlfriend on the bed behind him, receiving a message from the hacker who was watching him?
I put tape over my laptop webcam and disabled the drivers in device manager, can someone still be watching me through my webcam?
>>52988511
>sent from my tablet (stone tablet) on an entirely new, unmapped island in the Pacific Ocean using smoke signals.
>desktop
Have webcam that only works half the time and if it does, it shows a light. I doubt someone would go through the trouble to rewrite the drivers so the light wouldn't turn on.
>desktop
Sure, the webcam works, but who would give a fuck about a picture of me staring blankly at my screen?
Both computers have been scanned without any positives by MBAM recently.
>>52990820
SJW spotted
>>52990850
Yes. RMS ca and is recording you..
one day, he will show up on your doorstep and bully you into installing an os that respects your freedom
>>52990850
No.
They can still listen and see everything you
are doing on your screen though and access your computer just same as you can with a VNC client.
If you don't download pirated games and other software the chances are minute though that anyone but Microsoft is spying on your machine directly.
If you use Linux it's almost to nil.
>>52990820
>>>52990767
>does making fun of people less fortunate than you make you feel fulfilled?
Of course dumbass. Thats like, making-fun-of-people 101. If you make fun of someone more fortunate it makes you look like a jealous loser.
>>52990164
kek
>>52990881
>tfw you're so off the grid you can't even see the grid
>>52990310
> If he can activate the webcam without you knowing, you need to assume he can monitor the activity on the screen as well as keystrokes. Those are trivial in the context of activating a webcam surreptitiously.
No it is not, not everyone views child porn snuff like you do. If it comes out that I look at regular porn, then that's no biggie. If there is a video of me jerking off on the other hand, that is serious.
Activating a webcam is way more serious than looking at keystrokes and Activity.
>>52987525
But my job requires it :/
>>52990262
Im pretty sure you're the only one around here that do perverted shit like that anon, please don't assume anybody else is a weirdo like you.
>implying the intruder cares about ur body and not the fact he can blackmail you over your scat fetish
>>52990164
I don't remember anything from /g/ this year making me laugh like that. Thanks, anon.
>>52987525
Stay unaware kid
I'm taking a shit right now and have the front camera on my phone taped over
>>52990950
Yup, you remember all those stories about Windows users constantly getting their personal info sold online, or getting kidnapped because people know their bank details, or basically having all their personal details stolen.
Sometimes even sitting next to someone who has ever used Windows is bad enough. They can osmosis your personal info.
You fucking tinfoil hat wearing faggots.
>>52987525
Haha, isn't it funny how a $0.01 piece of tape easily counters webcam spying?
Doesn't matter how smart or rich you are; With that little piece of tape there is nothing anyone can do about it short of sneaking into your house if they want to creep on you.
Sucks, don't it?
>>52991386
It's the unaware kids doing it.
People who don't have anything of value on their computer.
If someone gets that level of access to my computer they can take my private SSL keys, take my money, take sensitive company information, commit fraud or some other crime using my IP/domain etc.
I'd very much like for a hacker to waste time oggling me stroking my dick rather than doing anything harmful. Not that that could happen since I only have the laptop lid open at uni or work. At home it's sitting on a docking station with the lid closed.
It's not like some neet hacker from Japan is going to be able to identify you by seeing your emotionless face through your webcam, if he even picks you to spy on out of the probably 1000+ people that got infected with the virus he injected to his anime loli pictures that he put on some weird ass hentai sharing board.
>>52991125
>>52991125
>Activating a webcam is way more serious than looking at keystrokes and Activity.
Brb, logging keystrokes of your preferred bank, facebook, and main email. After all, these are trivial in comparison to leaking a video to you lathering your snake.
>>52990164
Are you me? I remember being afraid of my cats spying on me.
>>52991829
Yes he is!
In fact, you wrote that post a few hours ago and then forgot about it.
>>52990834
I know exactly which one but I don't have it. Seconding the request.
>>52991829
Why is it that my dogs always bother me when I want to fap. Like fuck off stop looking at me, go somewhere else
>>52990164
Wow, I used to be afraid of keyholes hving cameras when I was a kid.
>>52990527
This apparently is common. I asked a guy at work if he tapes his and he said yes. However, he's also one who holds to the old, "nothing to hide, nothing to fear' adage. Wierd.
Wtf do you weirdos do in front if your webcams? Jesus fucking Christ
>>52987525
About 70% of the computers in my office have tape over the webcams.
>>52992270
I'm still paranoid about people watching me through keyholes.
Actually I'm paranoid about everything that could have people watching me through, even if it would take them a lot of effort.
For example I'm very uncomfortable and feel watched every time my blinds aren't completely shut because I'm afraid someone on the other side (I live in front of a park and the closest homes are 1km away) could use a telescope to watch me.
I'm also uncomfortable fapping with the window open, even if I'm under the level of the windowsill, because someone on the street could use a telescope to watch me in the reflection of the ceiling lamp.
I know perfectly well that this is incredibly unlikely, but just thinking that there's a remota chance of someone being crazy enough to do it makes me very uncomfortable.
Am I crazy /g/?
>>52992395
>Am I crazy /g/?
Probably, but that makes the best of us
>>52992395
You think that's bad? I think people are watching me in public.
Stupid NSA niggers leave me alone.
>>52987525
I do this to keep creeps like in that /jp/ thread where they tapped into unsecured security cameras in japanese daycares from watching me
