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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: Jim Robinson

I Love You, Jim. You are one of my inspiration points and our (this forum’s) inspiration point. Prayers going up daily Jim, for you, yours and us (All of us). Those seeking to destroy US and this precious land, have no idea of the fight each of us has and how far each of us will go to keep our enemies on the other side of the divide. God’s Speed, Jim.


41 posted on 12/07/2013 1:08:35 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Jim Robinson

If it doesn’t light and should. . . DUCT TAPE!


42 posted on 12/07/2013 1:08:52 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Jim Robinson

I already guessed they could do that. The rumor is that with a new flat screen TV they can watch you while you watch it.


43 posted on 12/07/2013 1:09:20 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Jim Robinson

no webcam on my old lappy


44 posted on 12/07/2013 1:09:33 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: diverteach

see my post 19


45 posted on 12/07/2013 1:09:35 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Jim Robinson

and see what? the backside of a piece of black tape?

I don’t talk much anyway.


46 posted on 12/07/2013 1:10:53 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Joe 6-pack; All
Keep in mind that the government has declared conservatives and tea partiers terrorists.

...I believe we are witnessing the stage being set for the criminalization and elimination by force, of Conservative Americans who ally themselves with the TEA Party.

Obama began to prep the government itself for whom he will declare to be enemies of the state, in the April 2009 DHS Terror Assessment. That assessment, right after Obama took office – classified Conservatives, veterans and other anti-tax, pro-Christian, anti-abortion groups as potential mass terrorists.  In that assessment, not one mention of Islamic terrorism – all classifications were of domestic Americans who would be allied with a conservative viewpoint.

From As Conservatives Are Called “Terrorists” – Obama Outlines New Program To “Fight Violent Extremism”

47 posted on 12/07/2013 1:11:31 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: USNBandit
"Should I tape over my camera if I am part of a radical home schooling cell or raw milk faction?"

No way I'm going to answer that. You want me to get charged with conspiracy?

48 posted on 12/07/2013 1:11:56 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Jim Robinson

“I’m now able to do most things I used to”

God bless you!

I admire you for your wonderful positive attitude in the face of adversity and that you don’t let things slow you down.


49 posted on 12/07/2013 1:11:59 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: humblegunner

see my post 19 — if they can turn on the mic of your mobile phone, I am sure they can turn on its camera too...


50 posted on 12/07/2013 1:13:03 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Jim Robinson

I live next to a spy school and an expensive NWO grad school very heavily into international stuff; translation, economic development, and “counter terror/non proliferation”.

And ALL the people studying the spooky stuff have their cams TAPED OVER, just like me.


51 posted on 12/07/2013 1:13:25 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Jim Robinson

Not if you don’t have a WebCam.


52 posted on 12/07/2013 1:15:13 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Innovative

The have been able to listen in to anyone in a car equipped with OnStar for years.


53 posted on 12/07/2013 1:15:42 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

If they’ll activate the camera around, oh say, around O dawn thirty, they’ll get a good shot of me on the porcelain recliner in my “office”...reading Free Republic on my smart phone.


54 posted on 12/07/2013 1:17:36 PM PST by moovova
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To: The Cajun

Ha! You went high tech, I just use masking tape. :)


55 posted on 12/07/2013 1:18:39 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: Innovative

There are commercial spy programs anyone can can buy that will allow you to do the same though you to have to install a program on the target computer to do it. What this tidbit tells me is that Apple and Microsoft have some trojan programs / back doors programmed into their software that they haven’t told us about. I would think it would have to be an intentional exploit installed by the software companies themselves.


56 posted on 12/07/2013 1:19:40 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Jim Robinson

Creepy is as creepy does.


57 posted on 12/07/2013 1:20:20 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Syncro

“The have been able to listen in to anyone in a car equipped with OnStar for years.”

Privacy has been an illusion for quite a while now.


58 posted on 12/07/2013 1:22:29 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Sacajaweau

Pervs have indeed been doing that for years. It’d be a shame if the FBI lacked the technical know-how to do the same.


59 posted on 12/07/2013 1:22:51 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: centurion316

Electric Tape.

My liberal lesbian bookkeeper showed me the electric tape over her webcam on the laptop she brings to my office.

She said her “wife” - apparently they are both wives now -
insisted months ago on taping all the household webcams. That wife an administrative assistant at our liberal University of Washington, which leads me to believe that the
libs have known about this.


60 posted on 12/07/2013 1:25:02 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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