Do you cover up your laptop webcam?

No, because I don't let my laptop get hacked in the first place.

yessir - makes me wonder why they are still being put in computers if everyone blocks them

my laptop doesn't have a webcam or a microphone

No. I have nothing to hide.

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>>61044580
Oh my sweet summer child.

I did put tape over it, but when I wanted to use it later it didn't work anymore :(

>>61044440
I'm an exhibitionist, so no. I'm also always naked when at the computer. Yes I'm a grill.

>>61044580
post dick

>>61044440
lmao, implying that will help

https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1le3if/so_i_discovered_that_my_hp_laptop_leakstransmits/

>I accidentally stumbled upon a signal in the 24MHz range, appearing to be 4 carriers. I tuned to it and heard silence, then someone came into my office and started talking and I could hear them speak. The signal appeared to be coming from my other laptop (not the one running the SDR) and was pretty weak (my antenna, the crappy one that comes with the dongle, stuck to a metal stapler was right next to the HP laptop). Here's a picture

>I'm pretty sure that if I build a nice high-gain antenna optimized for 24Mhz I would be able to pick up the sound from some distance away. The laptop is an EliteBook 8460p. I have checked identical laptops and they do not transmit at this frequency. I didn't have the time to scan the full spectrum though. I'm guessing the preamp is really crappy and somehow ends up transmitting FM at HF freqs.

>>61044475
Skype

>>61044440
>Implying they can't take a photo of you from the space
Enter Google Maps and take a short trip around the Earth. As you will see, even the shapes and models of cars, buildings, people, roads and the curtains of your house are visible, and this is the version that is open to public. Now, imagine the capabilities of non-public satellites.

I cover mine with electrical tape.

>>61044440
i disconnected it from a hardware level, then my laptop wouldnt work

>uninstall webcam driver
>doesn't even work

I imagine getting access to your Microphone would be more useful

>>61044440

If I wouldn't have a desktop computer for my everyday work/entertainment, then I would. But my laptop is either used to create powerpoint presentations or reading lots of stuff (papers), hence it is usually disconnected from the internet anyway. Most work related stuff is taken via USB drive to my laptop so I might total a running internet connection time of 10 minutes a months with it.

all you niggas are paranoid as fuck
u can just relax nobody watches u
edward snowden is not real if he was real usa would catch him by now lol

>>61044440
I've visited pretty spoopy places and haven't ever stumbled upon some archive of 1000's of these videos. In fact, I don't think I've seen a single one.
That alone is enough for me to think everyone who does it is retarded.

>>61044440
Indicator is wired to the webcam, you can tell if it turns on.
Also good luck using someone's webcam on OS X without running

sudo killall VDCAssistant

first.

>>61044822
>Indicator is wired to the webcam, you can tell if it turns on.
wrong

>>61044658
Classic reddit post, poorly explained and doesn't make alot of sense.

>>61044756
>:^)

>>61044859
you have absolutely no proof that the webcam control board inside any generic laptop doesn't have the ability to switch on without activating the light.
i'll take statements like "the 2016 macbook's webcam light will turn on if the webcam is activated, there are no exceptions. here's a link to a security researcher's blog post on it", i won't take statements like "indicator is wired to the webcam, you can tell if it turns on."

are you sure you aren't the one from reddit?

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>>61044691
>what are generic drivers
>what are backed up drivers in windows directory that you cannot delete, yet device is marked as uninstalled
>>61044440
Yes. Small black electrical tape. I don't understand people who cover webcams with medical patch, stickers or some shit like that. Do you enjoy showing everyone around how much of a tinfoil you are? Not to mention it just looks bad.
pic rel is the only elegant way of dealing with this.

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>>61044822
Indicator is wired to the webcam, you can tell if it turns on.

oh you poor oblivious anon

Yes I do

>>61044893
>windows
Hahaha, yeah.

WHY not just turn it off in bios?

>>61044666
That shit is captured from a plane not a satellite

>>61044922
>>61044666
You're both wrong, shit's captured from an autonomous car with an incredibly fastly rotating at very high angular velocity super fast haiyai. Hence, why third world nations don't have anything close to streetview.

>>61044658
You're full of shit. Read the explaation in comment section
.
>Looking at the first microphone ADC Google could find me, it has a rated clock frequency of around 24 MHz. Maybe the ADC is never turned off (power savings, anyone?) and leaks timing information through crappy filtering and shielding.
>it's easy to accidentally create FM - all you need is something to be slightly non-linear and have an unexpected multiplicative effect on your signals. see, for a pathological example, >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_bolt_effect
>i haven't looked at EMC stuff for many years, but the ADC clock being accidentally coupled into a path which isn't linear could absolutely cause this, and no preamp is completely linear ;)
>the drift after clipping sounds like the automatic gain control on the preamp kicking in, but i couldn't speculate as to why that would change the carrier frequency.
>sounds like a bad case, but it could be as simple as dirt or damaged components...

>>61044440
No because my computer doesn't have one.

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>>61044893
>compile custom Linux kernel without support for webcam
>disable it in BIOS as well

>>61044440
No because the guy watching me is probably worse of watching me than I am being watched.

>>61044859
whoops, i thought you were responding to my post here >>61044841


disregard >>61044892


>>61044982
if the microphone is leaking sound over FM even when the laptop is in POST, that is completely unacceptable and can not be tolerated.

>>61045001
>compile custom Linux kernel without support for webcam
attacker-supplied module + insmod
>disable it in BIOS as well
how?

>>61045018
how


many


lines


do


you


need?

>>61045032
are you browsing 4chan on a smartwatch?

>>61045025
Reboot laptop, enter BIOS setup
disable webcam
>>61045001
>not just physically removing the camera

>>61044841
shieeeet
https://www.usenix.org/node/184422

>>61044901
I actually remember Snowden saying that the webcam indicator was hardwired in but that it wasn't safe because someone could tamper with it if they had access to it

>>61044963
Google Maps, Google Earth covers the entire planet

>>61045041
3ds, but thats irrelivant. youre not writing an essay now

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>>61044440
>cover up webcam
>use botnet hardware with botnetOS

lmao

>>61045001
>what is Gentoo
It sure is summer

>>61045018
then how about you fix the microphone or buy a new one?
Holy shit how autistic you must be to think this is intentional? What kind of valuable information is this simple as fuck electronic part transmitting if the system doesn't even use it?

>>61045103
>be working in x company
>mention confidential product you're working on near laptop that IT has given you
>y company and iran now both know about your new product

"what kind of valuable information"
jesus christ anon it's a FUCKING BUG

>>61045157
You haven't answered my question, retard.

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>>61045084

>>61045175
you posed 3 questions. your first one was irrelevant (how many people do you think regularly do checks on the emissions of their work devices?), your second one was either an insult or meaningless depending on who it was aimed at, and i answered your third question.

are you arguing just for the sake of argument?

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>>61045197
Also
>having a laptop with webcam
Enjoy your trash macnie

>>61045025
>not compiling support for everything you need into the kernel and disable the loading of modules

>>61045210
I just literally said a microphone that is only powered but isn't used by OS CANNOT transmit any LOGICAL information, you dumb nigger cunt.

>>61045236
...the guy in the reddit post literally said that it was transmitting audio.

>>61044440
Our old CFO use to do that in the conference room. (Oddly, she didn't seem to know/care about the built in microphone which is much more useful)

>>61045246
So? It's transmiting random noise that has ZERO logical value. You dumb tinfoiled nigger.
God damnit why is summer cancer allowed to post on this board. Get the fuck out.

>>61045264
>I tuned to it and heard silence, then someone came into my office and started talking and I could hear them speak.

>>61045277
Get back ----------> reddit, dumb retard.
Remember: everything you read on the internet is true. Time to shield your body with double layer of tinfoil!
No more (You)s for you, incompetent retard.

>>61044475
You can just rip the camera out
It wont damage anything.
Thats what I did to my chinkpad

>>61044644
Dear God please post feet... I beg you!

No, unlike the laptop in the OP, mine has FOSS drivers.
>hurr UEFI hacks
Sure, but in that case I'd have much bigger concerns.

It's really the worst of both worlds. I've seen so many normies do this it really hurts my eyes. And it's ALWAYS macfags - without exception.

>hackers/scammers etc. are far more likely to exploit you for information using your microphone than watching you stare at a screen
>covering it with a thin piece of paper makes it still possible to see outlines of individuals with proper color correction

If you are really that paranoid (which isn't something I would object to in this time and age) then at least take the extra time to open up your laptop/pc and unplug it if you don't need it.

>>61044893
What kind of heathenous offense to my eyes do I see, simply CUTTING the black tape is not a true gentleman manner to conceal his private affairs, what I do is I put a strip of black electrical tape on a pice of wax paper and then hole punch the area with the tape on it. After that I retrieve the perfect circle and peel off the wax paper from the back so the electric tape more or less blends in with what the camera would have looked like.

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>>61044466
Thats true goy only evil hackers can watch you trought your webcam

>>61044475
because people unblock them when they need to

>>61044440
Yup, with electrical tape. I don't use it anyway.

>>61044440
Why do all laptops have webcams and microphones to begin with? I don't use my shit all the time.

I do. I use a bandaide.

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Unless you are a pizza producer or big drug dealer they don't give a shit,stop watching too much Alex jones/David icke ,stop being paranoid edge lords and go out of your houses..

>>61044440
i made a little switch button on my laptop to toggle the physical connection

No because I know how to disable it without looking like a retard with tape on my device.

>>61044440
i dont own a laptop


also desktop mustardrace with no webcam or mic

>>61044440
Yep, though if a hacker can get my webcam to work properly on Linux, maybe they deserve something after all that effort.

>owning a laptop

taped over it
disabled it in bios
disconnected the cables
replaced screen unit with one without camera

>>61044440
>his laptop has a botnet device

I bet it also has intel ME

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>>61047307
>replaced screen unit with one without camera
Wut?
The webcam isn't attached to the display, you can just unplug it and remove it if you're that paranoid.

Use an external monitor and always have my laptop closed.

>>61047374

What actually happened was that I replaced the horrible TFT for a less horrible IPS screen in my X220.
However, this is not relevant to this thread

I deactivated mine in BIOS

>>61044440
Well, there is a LED on the webcam.
Which turns on when the webcam is being used.
>But there is sure a way bypass it <--(you)
No, I have checked many webcam schematics and it turns out it's fucking bullshit the webcam is connected in series to the LED.
The actual thing you should be worry about is the mic.

>>61047537
Depends on the manufacturer:
http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/12/how-to-disable-webcam-light-on-windows.html#.WU15WCmQy70

No. If uncle Sam wants to spy on me, they can waste their time watching me fap and rage when playing vidya

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>>61044440

no because my aunt's internet is so slow that i doubt someone could spy on me with hd quality webcam video

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>>61047704
>HD quality webcam video
You sound almost like a /CSG/ ad

>>61044440
It's unplugged from the inside.

>>61044466
>>61044580
>>61044628
>>61044644
>>61044691
>>61044756
>>61044915
>>61045076
>>61046023
>>61047260
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>>61047704
Retards.

>>61044440
No, because I'm not retarded. I mean, come on, nobody is seriously watching me jerking of or something. And even if, there is absolutely nothing you can do with that footage. Nobody wants to see my orgasm face

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>>61044440
just open up your laptop and cut the wires.

My laptop doesn't have a webcam.

>>61045001
Anything you do in software can be undone in software.

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>>61048355

No but I know someone that does.
I just don't see the point of doing it myself.

No I want NSA to see me naked

>>61044440
Yup, my company even gave out covers to all the employees.

>>61044440
No because I have libreboot on my thinkpad