Covering Your Webcam
The director of the FBI said that he covers his webcam at a conference this week. Others do it as well. People like the CEO of facebook and a multitude of IT people known to me.Some even go as far as to place a piece of tape over the embedded lenses on notebooks just to keep prying eyes away ...
They even make a lovely set of self-adhesive sliding covers in a variety of colors ready to attach to your device !
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But as I became more aware of the possibilities I began covering various web cameras throughout my home and even rewired the router and reconfigured the webcam server so as not to have any of the redundant utilization of which I used to be so fond.
While I don't think that anyone can get past my firewall to access a webcam on my network ... I am quite sure that I could inadvertently mess around in front of one unaware so now I just make like Barney Fife and nip it in the bud.
So if you have a web cam that remains attached to something likely to provide surreptitious access under the right conditions ... be it an infrastructure, notebook, USB, or smartphone web cam — you would do well to cover that lens.
Federal machines with web cams have built in covers at the ready.
I have always felt that we overshare nowadays and that privacy is a boon commodity anymore to be sure.
No need to provide any shows to the masses just because they may seek one.