Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam
by pseudonymcoward on Thursday September 15, 2016 @03:48AM
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This is only idle speculation but:
A web cam resembles an eye staring at you all the time. This makes people feel weird, like something is staring at them. The threat to privacy is right in their face and on a gut level.
That's the reason so many people cover them even when they won't take other basic online privacy precautions.
Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam
by Sylos on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:26AM
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Also just in general, people understand what a camera does. It's much harder to understand the implications of abstract "data" going off onto the internet.
A web cam resembles an eye staring at you all the time. This makes people feel weird, like something is staring at them. The threat to privacy is right in their face and on a gut level.
That's the reason so many people cover them even when they won't take other basic online privacy precautions.