Iz the webcam on yer computer being hacked?

[Norris Vulcan]

It's not your paranoias, @24 track , it's just business. These companies make money from selling data, and most folks provide it for free.
Paying Amazon for an Alexa ? That's the best one yet.

All this surveillance malarkey is easily woven into conspiracy theories but the real profiteers are the tech companies offering their services for free in return for your data. And that of the folks in your contacts.

 

[muscmp]

i hope so! at least someone may be watching me!

play music!

 

[magicfingers99]

It's not your paranoias, @24 track , it's just business. These companies make money from selling data, and most folks provide it for free.
Paying Amazon for an Alexa ? That's the best one yet.

All this surveillance malarkey is easily woven into conspiracy theories but the real profiteers are the tech companies offering their services for free in return for your data. And that of the folks in your contacts.

you are naive and you are not knowledgable enough to speak with such certainty about something which you know so little about.

I would advise you to read up, starting with Edward Snowden






and expanding from there to Surviellance Capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

 

[24 track]

what i meant by my paranoia was the fact my computer is idle , yet some how there are programs i have not activated running in the background , preventing me from restarting or shutting down my system , that indicates some one is accessing my computer remotely and i will force quit if necessary.

 

[fnkmstr]

That question came up from my anti-virus provider. I did the check they had and sure nuff- they got into my webcam. I usually have my puter facing up so it's pointed to the ceiling. I stuck my hand if front of the cam and there it was.

Someone may be watching you....

Who is your AV provider?

 

[fnkmstr]

Break out your ass-less chaps.

All chaps are ass-less.

 

[8trackmind]

Sounds like a few of you were wearing tin foil hats before the web cams came around.

 

[imwjl]

Come on. Give the moderators a break. Security is an important topic worth discussing. Keep opinion writers, pundits, controversial people and social science lecturers out of it.

BTW, I still don't believe the OP has said what software product. That would go a long way to help qualified TDPRI members understand.

 

[Art VanDelay]

They can hack my webcam all they want, but they're not going to see anything except the sliding black plastic cover that conceals it just in case something like this does happen.

+1

 

[KG7IL]

I believe most machines that come equipped with
a camera now, have sliders so you can close
off any capture or view activity.

And I believe there are still many that don't....
Walmart has 3 sliders for a few bucks...

Two sided tablets and phones I've seen don't have them....
.
OK GOOGLE is always listening.
My test two days ago was to say to my wife..... I need to get some leather boots in Yuma this year...
When I got home, I had a very nice advertisement for hand-stitched leather boots.
Mind you.. I picked the most unlikely and obscure subject that I haven't talked about in years...

Most email today, clearly says it will read your email and target... we know that Amazon and Google are in it together... but I'm not sure Anyone wants the phone listening all the time....

 

[awasson]

”Iz the webcam on yer computer being hacked?”

Probably...even Steve can hack it

Are you ready Steve...

 

[Frank'n'censed]

Are you ready Steve...

Uh-huh Andy? Yeah Mick? Okay Alright fellas, let's go!

 

[Lonn]

"I got an email from someone who claimed he hacked my computer and had a video of me "pleasuring myself." If I didn't pay him $1000, he was going to send the pics to everyone on my email list."

I got a similar email about a year ago. The only thing that concerned me about it was that they used an old password I had used on my Yahoo email account about 10 years ago. I remembered Yahoo had been hacked so that's probably where they got it and why I never used that password again.

 

[guitarmikey]

Calm down... they mounted mics&camera even int smart TV's and cabletop boxes, and yes, they can be remote-activated. So... one more, who cares... (or should I spell it hoo-kersss)... no more privacy for private people

 

[imwjl]

Calm down... they mounted mics&camera even int smart TV's and cabletop boxes, and yes, they can be remote-activated. So... one more, who cares... (or should I spell it hoo-kersss)... no more privacy for private people

And those things like many security cameras and IoT devices are on the whole not patched well.

 

[Preacher]

"I got an email from someone who claimed he hacked my computer and had a video of me "pleasuring myself." If I didn't pay him $1000, he was going to send the pics to everyone on my email list."

I got a similar email about a year ago. The only thing that concerned me about it was that they used an old password I had used on my Yahoo email account about 10 years ago. I remembered Yahoo had been hacked so that's probably where they got it and why I never used that password again.

My wife had the same issue a few months back. She got an email on her Mac with an old password that said they had hacked her web cam and had videos and pictures of her doing dirty things and they were going to send the pics and videos to all of her email contacts unless she paid $1900.
She was a little nervous as they did have an old password. With a little internet sleuthing I found it was a scam and calmed her down. I then told her I wanted to contact the person who had the video of her doing the dirty things, I told her I might pay $1900 to have that on file... lol.

 

[awasson]

"I got an email from someone who claimed he hacked my computer and had a video of me "pleasuring myself." If I didn't pay him $1000, he was going to send the pics to everyone on my email list."

I got a similar email about a year ago. The only thing that concerned me about it was that they used an old password I had used on my Yahoo email account about 10 years ago. I remembered Yahoo had been hacked so that's probably where they got it and why I never used that password again.

Yes, that is exactly what they've done. Literally hundreds of large networks have been hacked and your email and mine with various old passwords are traded on the darkweb. I've received that email about 100 times and the claims are ludicrous because the emails they claim I'm using are dummy emails I use for testing (I'm in IT).

A friend called me a year ago quite concerned about one of these emails so I told him to calm down and asked him a couple of questions:

1) Did they send you a screenshot of the alleged pleasuring? (No they did not)

2) Is this your work computer? (Yes it is)

3) Are you in the habit of pleasuring yourself on the work computer? (No... No he definitely does not)

Case closed and then I tracked the email path back to an origin in eastern Europe.

 

[DrPepper]

I don't care, I'm wearing a tinfoil hat and clean underwear...

 

[imwjl]

I don't care, I'm wearing a tinfoil hat and clean underwear...

That's good to know. I've long thought something with the underwear was wrong with most I know who wear those hats.