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Webcams may give you a window on the world, but they also offer criminals a view into your private life. Here’s what you can do to stop yours being hijacked.  The picture of tape covering the web cam on what’s believed to be Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s computer sparked lots of debate about the safety of personal webcams. You may not use the webcam built into the top edge of your laptop screen, but how do you know someone else isn’t secretly using it to spy on you? It may sound far-fetched, but in 2014 a Russian website carrying video captured illegally from 500 UK webcams was exposed, while in 2015, a British hacker was convicted of spending up to 12 hours a day spying on people by hacking their webcams. Fortunately, there are some simple steps you can take to make sure your webcam can’t be hacked in this way.
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2/7/2019 04:16:07 am
This must be stopped. Users have trusted the internet that the use of webcam can be personal and private, but there are also huge companies, or safe to say "hackers" that are taking advantage of this. If this is the matter right now, it would be better if we will not use technology anymore! Everything is making us feel unsafe. Nowadays, putting up too much information online can be a way of sending yourself to danger. Of course, this is sad and I hope that there are still ways on how to prevent it. Leave a Reply. |
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