Is Your Webcam Off? Not If The FBI Is Watching

"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," exposes the flaw in many Apple laptops built before 2008. But PC users shouldn't rejoice—MacBooks are not the only devices at risk.

Webcam-spying—particularly the variant that involves disabling LED indicator lights—takes quite a bit of effort, but the practice isn't limited to the realm of benevolent academics."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Tyler Lopez / Slate:


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