FBI director: Cover up your webcam

Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by stinkytaco on Thursday September 15, 2016 @09:38AM (#12505983)

But that at least requires some human investment of time and movement. Someone has to case your house and sit there for however long it takes, risking discovery, boredom, opportunity cost, etc.

Wholesale information theft is another level. Someone in a different state or country has access not only to me, but potentially hundreds of people's details, without ever leaving their home. And then they can leverage a whole community that is doing the same. This is how "The Fappening" occurred. This sort of crowdsourced stalking would be impossible pre-internet.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by Bartweiss on Thursday September 15, 2016 @09:55AM (#12506118)

Surely it's at least as much human effort to compromise a specific webcam, identify the house it's tied to, monitor it extensively, and then rob/assault the owners?

Obviously there are other reasons to worry about webcam access, but "they could spy on me to set up a robbery" is exceedingly low on my list since it just recreates a pattern that doesn't involve a computer.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by stinkytaco on Thursday September 15, 2016 @10:04AM (#12506195)

I think it's more about the mass dissemination of that information. We've seen how easy it is to "Dox" someone without much information. One person might not be able to glean much, but what happens if 4Chan gets a hold of that data and has decided they don't like me?

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