You Should Never, Ever Leave Your Webcam Uncovered When You Aren't Using It

Is your webcam recording you right now? If that little green light is off, you’d probably think the camera is, too. But think again. Wednesday, the Washington Post highlighted an unnerving study published at Johns Hopkins University which found that a laptop webcam can function in relative secrecy—a slightly subtler Eye of Sauron. Matthew Brocker and Stephen Checkoway’s paper, regrettably (though inevitably) titled “iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED,”...
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