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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
ping
bet pervs know how to do that.........
So Big Brother can/is watching.
That is just Super Duper.
It would be extremely difficult for them to do that on mine since it stays unplugged from the USB until I need it.
This is why I don’t have a web cam.
Electric Tape.
Give them an eye full of it. This government is totally out of control. Stazi? KGB? Gestapo? When will the end begin?
Mainly. Not "exclusively," mind you, but, "mainly."
I saw something on TV a while ago that so can hackers — they demonstrated it, they can even hack into baby monitors and see and hear everything that is going on.
So if some random hackers can do it, I am sure the FBI can too.
Translation:
serious criminal investigations = thoughtcrime supression
bet pervs want them to do that on their computers . . .
Who’duh thunk it.
That’s probably where the FBI learned it from. I just don’t have mine connected.
The era of Topless Freeping is over.
(Typed from a computer that has had a piece of tape over the webcam since the day I bought it)
Post-it note.
This is from 2006:
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
“The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone’s microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
The technique is called a “roving bug,” and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him. “
Always Great to see you on the forum, Jim. Tells me that our General is healing nicely.
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