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EX-OFFICIAL SAYS FBI CAN SECRETLY ACTIVATE AN INDIVIDUAL’S WEBCAM WITHOUT THE INDICATOR LIGHT...
Blaze ^ | Dec 7, 2013 | By Oliver Darcy

Posted on 12/07/2013 12:48:49 PM PST by Jim Robinson

EX-OFFICIAL SAYS FBI CAN SECRETLY ACTIVATE AN INDIVIDUAL’S WEBCAM WITHOUT THE INDICATOR LIGHT TURNING ON

The FBI can secretly activate a computer’s webcam to spy on an individual without turning on the indicator light, a former official revealed to the Washington Post in an article published Friday.

According to the Washington Post’s account of what Marcus Thomas — former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational Technology Division in Quantico — said, “The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; govtabuse; surveillance; tyranny; webcam
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To: ToastedHead

Guess I should shave as well.


121 posted on 12/07/2013 3:13:04 PM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: usconservative

Yup I got a pretty good take on what the rest of the world thinks of Obama, the truth has leaked out...

Cool you still do paltalk.

Amateur radio...gonna be the last bastion of freedom communications.


122 posted on 12/07/2013 3:42:30 PM PST by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 to Mar 1, 2012)
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To: Yorlik803

Yes! Don’t forget that the new thing is that facial hair is a sign of wealth and elitism. Your images will be targeted for distribution.


123 posted on 12/07/2013 3:50:19 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: GeronL

124 posted on 12/07/2013 4:00:53 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Syncro
Amateur radio...gonna be the last bastion of freedom communications.

It does have it's share of anti-free speech nazi's that complain anytime someone talks about politics or religion. Still I've said for a number of years now that when the revolution starts, the liberal lamestream media simply must be the first casualty, otherwise the truth will never get out.

And therein lay the reason why I got my license and got on the air. Someone's gotta tell the truth about the revolution and what better way than a couple of big antenna's, big radio's and big amplifiers that make sure I'm heard around the world?


125 posted on 12/07/2013 4:04:17 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Very cool!

At the ready...


126 posted on 12/07/2013 4:09:26 PM PST by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 to Mar 1, 2012)
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To: Jim Robinson

Mine is hardwired to a gif file of a recent colonoscopy.


127 posted on 12/07/2013 4:25:44 PM PST by Einherjar
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To: Jim Robinson
Jim, The Left and their corrupt accomplices in the (as Sarah Palin calls them) Lame Stream Media, are taking a free people into a totalitarian world. They know they are doing it. They think with the miracle of the computer they can do it better (and easier) than the tyrants of the past. They are control freaks no different than geeks who,with a few pages of code and a click of the mouse, send a new virus into the WebSphere to create Blue Screen. They are addicted to Hope-ium, the quest for power and a Utopian world where the chosen have the power to do whatever they want without the rule of law or the constraints of God.

When they are all through, America will be a back water nation of slaves to a system of high tech computer systems designed to control human beings from cradle to grave. The HAL 9000 of Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey will be a piker compared to what is in store for the citizens of America.

128 posted on 12/07/2013 4:29:27 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Syncro

> Who wants all their computer info on someone else’s server/computer. Or cloud...

I asked a friend a while back if he has enough storage on his phone for all the pics he takes.

He said all his stuff is in the cloud.

The Feds probably invented the Cloud. Have never put my data in the Cloud either. You’re just begging to get hacked when you do.


129 posted on 12/07/2013 4:36:34 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: I want the USA back

A- It becomes “legal” through some perversion of the Patriot Act.


130 posted on 12/07/2013 5:02:13 PM PST by batterycommander (a little more rubble, a lot less trouble)
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To: Jim Robinson

Maybe they can read FR while we do!


131 posted on 12/07/2013 5:52:36 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Jim Robinson

Interesting. They’d be pretty bored watching me hunched over the keyboard. Maybe I’ll start putting on tape or mount a shutter over it.


132 posted on 12/07/2013 6:09:58 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Innovative

“...install Mobistealth Cell Phone Spy Software and begin monitoring with these advanced monitoring features:

Real-Time and Historical Location Tracking
Call Recording
Spy Call (listen live to cell phone surroundings)
Video, Picture, Email and Text Message Log
Web History and Contact Details”

Sheesh.....I need to dump the smart phone and go back to a pager.


133 posted on 12/07/2013 6:34:24 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: usconservative
big antenna's, big radio's and big amplifiers

You forgot an apostrophe :-)

134 posted on 12/07/2013 6:42:31 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Everyone’s a critic ...... ;-)


135 posted on 12/07/2013 6:49:25 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Windflier
Sheesh.....I need to dump the smart phone and go back to a pager.

Or you can do like I do: no "smartphone" here ... I have what they call a "feature" phone.

It makes PHONE CALLS (imagine that) and can send an occasional text message. Other than that, no data plan, no internet access from the phone, no watching video's or listening to MP3's. It just makes phone calls and sends an occasional text.

That's it.

BTW: My cellphone service costs me about $100/year that way. I buy 1,000 minutes for $100 and load them on my phone. I've done that the last 4 years now and NEVER have I gone over 1,000 minutes in a year.

Can't beat that deal with a stick.

136 posted on 12/07/2013 6:53:52 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

I’ve still got a couple of those ‘dumb’ phones laying around. I’ve often thought about re-activating one of them with Boost Mobile or a similar pay-as-you-go plan.

I was actually pretty resistant to moving to a smart phone in the first place, but the wife convinced me to let go and move on, partially for business reasons.


137 posted on 12/07/2013 7:02:44 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: usconservative
Everyone’s a critic ...... ;-)

I tell you, it's an epidemic. I've caught myself doing the same thing lately, but caught it before I posted. When I was a kid, we'd laugh when we saw others doing that.

Man.......another time and place.

138 posted on 12/07/2013 7:05:11 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
I'm usually much better with spelling and proper punctuation .... I'm getting old though so I no longer give a shit crap. Well, most of the time I don't.
139 posted on 12/07/2013 7:09:19 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Innovative
>...if some random hackers can do it, I am sure the FBI can too.

They're probably lying. Anyone know when the FBI's going to start investigating the IRS? First day after eternity right?

140 posted on 12/07/2013 7:24:27 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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