This is a long, but to me fascinating, story about a man who criminally took remote control of his victim's computers to spy on them 24/7 via their connected computer cameras, which he modified so that the camara on light was off, even when the camera was on! As the article suggests, to be sure that your camera won't work when you don't want it to, you can put a sticker over the lens.
This story makes me think about the hidden microphones on Baltimore buses and cameras on streetlights, all for your protection of course.
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Bruce
"The more ubiquitous cameras become, the less we're aware they're even there. They stare out at us blankly from our phones and laptops, our Xboxes and iPads, a billion eyes and ears just waiting to be turned on. But what if they were switched on—by someone else—when you least expected it? How would you feel, how would you behave, if the devices that surround your life were suddenly turned against you?
It's a question that James Kelly and his girlfriend, Amy Wright, never thought they'd have to entertain. But one instant message changed everything. Amy, a 20-year-old brunette at the University of California at Irvine, was on her laptop when she got an IM from a random guy nicknamed mistahxxxrightme, asking her for webcam sex. Out of the blue, like that. Amy told the guy off, but he IM'd again, saying he knew all about her, and to prove it he started describing her dorm room, the color of her walls, the pattern on her sheets, the pictures on her walls. "You have a pink vibrator," he said. It was like Amy'd slipped into a stalker movie. Then he sent her an image file. Amy watched in horror as the picture materialized on the screen: a shot of her in that very room, naked on the bed, having webcam sex with James."
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