From phones to laptops to desktops ( with usb webcams) I have always used black electrical tape over the lens with a piece of white paper on the lens as not to get the sticky glue from the tape on the lens.

Do not know why a slide plastic protector cover was never added to USB webcams or Laptops since this would of been trivial to add. On smart phones would be harder of course.

 

Yeah but you should as worried,
if not more, about what your phone is doing.

 

no

 

who use a webcam, unless you on adult sites wanking lol

 

watch this please

 

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How many man hours would it take for everyone, everywhere to be monitored all the time?

I sometimes wonder what entire planet of peeps would be employed to do this monitoring, and then what planet of peeps would be employed to monitor them and what planet of....

Wouldn't be much time for anything else I'd guess, not even the time to tell someone else what they'd seen or heard so maybe another entire planet of peeps for that job and then maybe another to decide what if anything to do about what they've seen heard and maybe another to act and maybe another to...

Wouldn't it be easier just to install the fear of such things into the sheeple and let them regulate themselves at minimum cost?

Besides, the human resources that would be required and expended would detract and frustrate those whose sole purpose in life is the accumulation of the green folding tree bark that our species reveres above all else.......and this accumulation of wealth depends on the sheeple to generate it by buying shiny things that they're told they need

So if there's no money in it.........

But just to be on the safe side........yes

 

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you can only try and hope everybody is producing so many data they wont be able to handle it all, so point your cams at the tv and keep it running at all times, get extra cams and tellys to beat the system. download things twice to confuse them.

 

No, because I have a small LED next to the cam and it shares the same power rail as the cam itself, meaning if there's power to the cam, the LED turns on, no sneaky/hackery way around it.

As for mobile, I'm running custom ROMs which usually do not contain backdoors. Plus Android (without google apps) is open source, so any backdoors would have been found out during security audit. So it's perfectly safe (*cough *cough heartbleed bug....)

 

You think so?

 

Those collecting and collating data reap it using intelligent software programs that easily sort your words, be it on the page or what is spoken and categorize you. If you pass a certain threshold of relevance you can very easily also be physically surveilled and monitored on the cameras and microphones of your devices, by satellite, by a tail, or if in a city like London, by cameras everywhere in the city. It takes lots of man hours to do this and only is resorted to if you are on a watch list of probable or known terrorists, extremists or in opposition to your local regime. Whoever owns the definition wins the debate, and if you are on a certain list in a certain nation you might not be given the chance of rebuttal.

 

ok for the the cam LED....but mobiles are not safe
The system is open source BUT !!!!!!!
what about the baseband chip ?????
Aside from the operating system that we as end-users see (Android, iOS, PalmOS),
it also runs a small operating system that manages everything related to radio.
Since this functionality is highly timing-dependent, a real-time operating system is required.
This operating system is stored in firmware, and runs on the baseband processor.
As far as I know, this baseband RTOS is always entirely proprietary
So we don't know what it sending or not
read that if you're interested ...
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone

 

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How does that famous quote go?

Safe as houses? Bombed houses!

 

I'm curious about what people that cover their webcam and disable mid do with their phone.
Let me guess, everyone's using old nokia and motorola phones.

 

If someone got to the point he can monitor your webcam, you have a way worst problem

 

Yes. And I use Signal + Microphone Block.

 

People don't sit around looking through data like that. LOL It's automated. There are entire data centers doing it, then it's sent for further analysis and/or investigation. They monitor areas of interest, such as forums, social media, shopping sites. The data is sifted through by computers first to look for patterns, keywords, and important data/records. They look at unusual financial activity and other unusual behavior, or they can do custom searches; for instance find everyone who had anything to do with Antifa, or everyone who traveled to Canada last month, or everyone who bought a dildo from Amazon. Software like Palantir sifts through gigabytes of data per second, linking various connections into a database, creating a web of people and their contacts, locations, jobs, political affiliation, accounts, photos, etc. They can find you through facial recognition these days, and they've even started collecting DNA. When something from the database triggers an alert (e.g. an email you sent mentioned nuking California) the people involved and all their related connections are then investigated. If anything at that stage triggers more warnings the investigation is escalated to a higher level when agents become actively involved. A "file" is then created on you and nothing may come of it until years later when something unexpectedly becomes relevant to something you once did. Or if it's bad enough they might start hacking you, such as if you've been involved in organized crime or work for a politician, etc.

Meanwhile the tech companies, scammers, and hackers are trying to get your data for simpler reasons. They are more likely to personally target you, and they might already have some info on you from sites that were collecting your data that were previously hacked like Equifax, etc. At the very least it's a PITA to repair all your financial and identity info after a hack, and possibly have to deal with legal issues because your leaked data falsely associated you with something or was used in a crime.

 

Really! I never would have guessed.......

btw the humour gland removal operation is reversible.

 

I cover mine with a little tin foil hat I made for it.

 

Yes always got my webcam covered. No way you can cover people taking pics of your desktop though, here is a example of a software company called one small cue which releases freeware, Grace and also paidware called Poise (is on siter site). They are taking pics of your desktop. I bet other software companys do this aswel, or perhaps even bigger companies, like Windows 10.http://www.forum.onesmallclue.com/viewtopic.php?id=79