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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by sillysaurus3 on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:30PM (#12503185)
Interesting technique. This requires 60fps 1280x720 video. People would surely notice the slowdown. I wonder if it's possible to improve on this?
Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by willvarfar on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:25AM (#12503649)
The saying is "attacks only get better". Its likely that more can be done with less pixels but more software.

But hardware can also get better. Surely the next-gen of laptops have depth-sensing cameras too? Its becoming an integral part of game console motion detection, and normal smartphones will have them too e.g. hype I found by googling: https://3dprint.com/117809/depth-sensing-phone-cameras/

Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by sllabres on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:06AM (#12503571)
This was an interesting thing to see when it came out and keep people aware what is possible. Maybe there is even more possible using this technique.

But Nevertheless activating one of the many microphones around (mobile phones, phones, laptops, "echo" like devices, speech controlled televison) would concern me much more then.