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The Disturbing Technique Used to Control Computers and Spy Through Webcams That You Should Know About

Mar. 12, 2013 2:07pm Liz Klimas

RATs Allow Hackers to Spy on Victims Through Webcams and Access All Computer Files

Ratters are people who use RATs — remote access tools — to take over people’s computers and spy on them through webcams. This screenshot shows what one ratter is seeing in his or her own spying activity. (Image: YouTube screenshot)

We’ve reported about webcam hacking and spying in the past, but a recent report by Ars Technica is giving an even more in-depth look into the scary world of people who can take control of a person’s computer, peering into his or her life via webcam all in the name of an unsettling game.

Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson begins his story about RATs (remote administration tools) with an eerie scene: a woman sits in front of her computer with a baby on her lap, voicing her frustration over unwanted content popping up to a man who is in the room but offscreen. The man presumes that someone has hacked their computer. But little do they know the extent of the hack. As Anderson wrote, the hacker has access to their screens, webcam, microphone, files and all other content on the device.

At one point, the hacker messing with the family pops up a message on their computer screen that read “achoo!”

Anderson writes that these “ratters,” as they’re called, might only be playing what they consider a game with their victims but others hope to spy on intimate moments or search computer files for erotic photos.

Here’s what Anderson reports a couple ratters saying about their activities online:

“Man I feel dirty looking at these pics,” wrote one forum poster at Hack Forums, one of the top “aboveground” hacking discussion sites on the Internet (it now has more than 23 million total posts). The poster was referencing a 134+ page thread filled with the images of female “slaves” surreptitiously snapped by hackers using the women’s own webcams. “Poor people think they are alone in their private homes, but have no idea they are the laughing stock on HackForums,” he continued. “It would be funny if one of these slaves venture into learning how to hack and comes across this thread.”

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“I just use the file manager feature of my RAT in whatever one im using and in [a RAT called] cybergate I use the search feature to find those jpgs [JPEG image files] that are ‘hidden’ unless u dig and dig and dig,” wrote one poster. “A lot of times the slave will download pics from their phone or digital camera and I watch on the remote desktop to see where they save em to and that’s usually where you’ll find the jackpot!”

Here’s one example of a ratter spying and “playing” with their victim, who is working on her computer, by popping up sites that are shocking and confusing to her (Note: Some strong language):

What started as a hacking group’s exposure of Microsoft’s poor security in 1998 has become a small-scale industry for RATs that are as undetectable by protection software as possible. Anderson explains that people simply have to run a file from the ratter to become infected. Sometimes victims (slaves) are tricked through Facebook messages and others on file-sharing networks.

Anderson reports about several “handholding” tools that are available for aspiring ratters to pick up hundreds to thousands of slaves. Anderson also noted that many of them are coming up with methods to get around the webcam light that turns on with most computers when it’s in use.

“Calling most of these guys ‘hackers’ does a real disservice to hackers everywhere; only minimal technical skill is now required to deploy a RAT and acquire slaves,” Anderson wrote. “Once infected, all the common RAT software provides a control panel view in which one can see all current slaves, their locations, and the status of their machines. With a few clicks, the operator can start watching the screen or webcam of any slave currently online.”

Although many ratters are engaging in illegal activity, Anderson said they are rarely caught. He also wrote that there are some legal uses for RATs as well, like security companies using the technique to find stolen laptops.

Still, what is to be done to prevent such pervasive spying from happening to you? Anderson suggests people use an anti-malware program and keep operating systems and plug-ins (like Flash) up to date. Other common sense tips include avoiding questionable forums and clicking on attachments in emails that seem off-base.

“If you are unlucky enough to have your computer infected with a RAT, prepare to be sold or traded to the kind of person who enters forums to ask, ‘Can I get some slaves for my rat please? I got 2 bucks lol I will give it to you :b,’” Anderson wrote. “At that point, the indignities you will suffer—and the horrific website images you may see—will be limited only by the imagination of that most terrifying person: a 14-year-old boy with an unsupervised Internet connection.”

As for removing a RAT from an infected computer, users on the forum Hack This Site suggest wiping the hard-drive completely clean and restoring the computer to its factory settings (the condition it was in when you received it).

Hack This Site’s users also pointed to Microsoft’s TechNet post on RATs. Here’s a portion regarding next steps:

After you detect and eradicate RATs, a larger question looms: Did the remote intruder collect information that could harm you in the future? Answering that question in the confines of this article is difficult, but consider the following information to determine risk. How long has the RAT been around? Although you can’t always rely on file-creation dates, use Windows Explorer to see when the RAT executables were created or last accessed. If the executable was created in the distant past and the last access was recent, an intruder could have been using the RAT over a long period. What type of activity did the intruder perform on the compromised machine? Did the intruder access confidential databases, send email, or access other remote networks or directory shares? Did the intruder have administrator rights? Look on the compromised machine for clues, such as files and programs with access dates and times outside the end user’s usual business hours. In low-risk environments, most end users eradicate the RAT and work hard to prevent the remote intruder from returning. Compromised users might want to consider changing all passwords and other potentially revealed information (e.g., credit card numbers, PIN).

Be sure to read Anderson’s full post on Ars Technica for more details about the nefarious activities of ratters and how the technology works here.

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sinner-saint
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:21am
And the little piss ants who do this are tracked down and they pay the price.

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- Hobo Boondocks
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 5:33am
  What is far more disturbing to contemplate is the hacking of State election computers to alter votes for presidential candidates. Who is going to track those fools down?
  
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- Ailius
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:34am
  It’s not really a ‘hack’ in this case. Election Systems & Software released a patch in late 2012 which added a program with read/write access to the central vote tabulator computers ostensibly to export the results in .CSV format. This patch created a vulnerability which an outside party could have exploited.
  
  To call this ‘hacking’ would be like a thief having a ‘guy on the inside’ of the place he was going to rob open the door for him, and then calling it ‘lockpicking’. Meanwhile ES&S’ former CEO is now Secretary of Defense, and blackboxvoting.org doesn’t care because he’s working for a Democrat now.
  
  *Proving it* however, is impossible from an IT standpoint. If the vote has been tampered, then the patch was able to overwrite the tabulators. Proving that fraud occurred in the first place would require that the central databases be compared to the “Poll Tapes”, which no doubt have been discarded by now.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:46pm
  YOUR CELL PHONE IS A GOVERNMENT LISTENING DEVICE. YOUR CELL PHONE IS ALWAYS ON.
  
  The Up Link (speaker) and Down Link (ear phone) of your cell phone are two separate channels that are controlled by the cell phone central office. Police and Government agencies all have the codes needed to turn on the Up Link of any cell phone number and listen in to what is being said. The only way for you to have complete privacy is to remove the battery. Oh, many of the new cell phones now have batteries that cannot be removed. If the battery cannot be removed than the cell phone should be place under a pile of blankets, coats or inside a sound proff box.
  
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- kchercmech
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:52pm
  No they are RARELY caught because they are rarely exposed.
  
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auntmoxie.com
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:06am
I am panicked now. I clicked on a bad link yesterday, and today while Web chatting with Comcast (about adding TheBlaze to their line-up), I left the room to go blow my nose. When I came back, there was a message (not in the font I’d used or the Comcast operator had used), and it said, “User has left the room.” Suggestions? Help!

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- auntmoxie.com
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:43am
  OK, so maybe that was premature panic. “User has left the room” is what Comcast puts on the screen when the chat has been dropped. (Yes, I live under a rock … or maybe just in the early ’90s.)
  
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- ICSPADES
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:43am
  Sorry to laugh but that was funny. If people only knew what went on they would never visit a chat room.
  
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- Colorado7972
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 12:12am
  Better to be safe and somewhat paranoid, then sorry and screwed.
  
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truelife
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:06am
Oh by the way. This is old news to many in the tech security field… I suggest a piece of tape over your webcam and microphone. DO not keep anything on your computer unencrypted if you do not wish the world to see it. Also, get a good firewall, set it up so that you must physically give permission to every piece of software before it can communicate with the Internet. These BotNets I am sure are much more sophisticated then they were years ago when I was in High School, but you used to be able to open a command prompt, do a NETSTAT, and IRC servers used to use port 6667, you can connect to that using mIRC or another client… Some I had found would have thousands of hacked computers connected to them…. They used to use them for what they called DDoS attacks, where they would make them all send traffic to a given site or ISP all at once and overflow it with traffic to where it would crash

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- battles
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:24am
  I have read that the best firewall out there today is the Comodo firewall. I have been using it for quite a while. In addition to the firewall, it has what is called Defenses+ that pops up a window every time a program starts. If you know the program is ok, you can make Defenses+ permanently ignore it.
  
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truelife
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:59pm
These are not Hackers but what the Hacking community refers to as “script kiddies” who are abusing vulnerabilities that have been exploited, and automated. The “RATS” as they are called in the article are actually referred to as “BotNets” and the so called “SLAVES”, are actually referred to as “Zombies”, how it works is rather than connect to your computer they use a hacked machine to host an IRC chat server (IRC is a Chat Client that has been around forever, and has a complete programming language built into it) they then have hacked machines connect to a pre-determined chat room on the IRC Chat Server. Since the hijacked computers are connecting to the IRC server, the attacker can issue commands and control the hijacked computer remotely with out leaving any traceable trail, besides that which is on the IRC server which they are in control of – even if you setup a honey pot and intentionally infect a computer, and join these “BotNets” it takes some tact to gain control of them if the guy running it knows what he is doing. The fact the woman in the video is asian does not surprise me one bit… as most of the BotNets I found years ago always seemed to be packed with ASIAN users… I believe because they all use pirated, and insecure versions of Windows that are insecure. These Botnets do not just hijack your computer, but will make your computer scan random ranges of IP’s for open ports where it will make you attempt known exploits on other machines! which join

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DisposableWorker
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:52pm
1. Use a crappy old computer to “surf” and your good one for work.
2. Change those passwords and use Norton
3.Dont store any account information on you computer
4. Put a bit of electrical tape over your web-cam and a small circle of white medical tape on the camera that faces you on your “smart phone. Also put a yellow “sticky note” between your outward pointing camera and you cell phone case.

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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:40pm
  The creepiest thing is this. There are not only certain computers, but also websites that are vulnerable. Those are website that don’t have a skilled IT employee on staff keeping their defenses up to date, which is generally true of most websites outside universities, government and law enforcement, generally websites that allow readers to post comments.
  
  If a user of those websites remains on the website for a long time, and especially while posting where their own computer devices are somewhat relaxed in order to allow communication from computer to computer, a so called “worm” can be directed into the operating system of the user, and the malware, given the user spend enough time composing his thoughts, installed. It only takes about two minutes, five or more for the more sophisticated ones.
  
  And just like that the hacker (or the government for that matter) can be watching you as you type. You’re looking at your computer, they are looking at you and listening to you for that matter.
  
  If you suspect that someone is watching you as you type, and even a slight delay from the time you press a key to the response on your monitor, you may have malware installed, and you may be under observation!
  
  If that happens, or if you even suspect something fishy is going on, Immediately shut your computer. Restart and run a virus scan and a adware scan (http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_pro/). Do not go to suspect websites! You are being watched!
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:04am
  Re: Send
  There is almost always a ‘click delay’ for me, on this site. Sometimes, I have to click reply several times to go thru.
  
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- Melika
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 8:44am
  Norton? Really? *sigh* otherwise a good post.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:30am
  Meteors
  
  “Riskiest search
  
  A 2009 report published by McAfee found that lyrics-related searches and searches containing the word “free” are the most likely to have risky results from search engines, both in terms of average risk of all results, and maximum risk of any result”
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrics
  
  What is risky is listening the STM, because they make no sense.
  
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- battles
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:52am
  If you want to be perfectly safe, have one computer that is used for web surfing and mail checking only and another one for your personal business / business that is never connected to the web (maybe very temporarily for banking/payment transactions – but no other downloads/email checking). Be sure that your wifi switch is in the off position also, on both.
  I don’t know if these virus programs find rats, but these are supposed to be the best. You do not have to purchase these, although some try to sell additional features. The free additions will do everything you need:
  MalwareBytes https://malwarebytes.org/ (site was down when this was written)
  SpywareBlaster http://www.brightfort.com/spywareblaster.html
  CCleaner https://www.piriform.com/
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:38am
  I’m not trying to make anyone paranoid, but I think it’s likely that, if you haven’t been careful enough, you could very well be under observation by any number of hackers or perhaps organizations who believe you may have unacceptable beliefs.
  
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tharpdevenport
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:48pm
Anybody have a webcam and use Youtube? Well, the Blaze should look into this — and you guys reading this may want to as well:
keiths-place.com/blogs/keith/2008/stop-youtube-sytimgcom-video-camera-spying

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Jamboree
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 7:15pm
Dont forget the microphones, they can be activated remotely as well. And everything reported also applies to smart phones. Meanwhile all the Ads for Mozy, GotomyPc, Carbonite, etc. Ever wonder how safe your data really is in these services? Oh, I almost forgot the Cloud. Such fools.

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Advection
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:31pm
It’s not just computers and phones. Manufacturers have started building cameras and microphones into TVs, too, and they’ve been Internet capable for years.

Welcome to the future, where strangers are watching you from inside your appliances.

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- IWILLBEFREE
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:23pm
  When I first heard about this new “advancement” in televisions, this is the first thing I thought of. Just like the “Telescreens” you read about. Is it just me, or does it seem like Uncle Sam is reading 1984 and Atlas Shrugged for pointers on what to do next?
  
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- TomFerrari
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:47pm
  The two most invasive & dangerous examples of these asset-destroying, privacy-invading viruses are “demo-c” and “commie-c” often referred to as DEMOCRATS and COMMIECRATS. lol
  
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spirited
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:58pm
Double piece of painters tape.

~>No sitcky residue; –ahem.

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- xfiler93
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:05pm
  One reason I dont have a cam or mic.
  
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- suz
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:40pm
  i did that about 3 years ago. use black.
  
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- JeffersonsPen
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:43pm
  When my cam is active the light beside it comes on. Can they stop that buy hacking? I would guess that no power for the light then no power for the cam. The cam and light are on a small PCB at the top of my laptop lid. I just don’t see away to hack “Hardware” remotely………….correct me if I’m wrong.
  
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- antitheism
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:50pm
  Or just remove the drivers for the webcam or disable them to not have to deal with tape.
  
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Kiba
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:44pm
Ever hear of something called a little piece of tape? Its a real astounding device, you pull a piece off of a roll and place it over the camera lens (P.S., it has a sticky surface on one side) and try not to use the clear type, that would defeat the purpose. And I really don’t feel sorry for people who are careless enough to have or use their computer for private stuff. Here is a good rule of thumb, if you don’t want everyone in the world to see it don’t put it on your computer plain and simple. Nevermind the “should be able to” factor because that means nothing anymore in case you haven’t noticed. We no longer live in a world that we can expect privacy.

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- old construction worker
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:15pm
  Did that right I bought my laptop 5 years ago. Used black electrical tape.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:26pm
They’ve tried to turn my web camera on, and they do it through the interface of using plug ins. If you don’t turn on plug ins, and you can’t watch videos on the blog. If they would switch to a format that does not use certain plug ins, this could be avoided. I put tape over all my phones, and my laptop, because I am not going to entertain people that should have better things to do?

It does not matter what web site, an advertising script could be naughty and turn on your camera or worse. What needs to be done, is alter the remote administration scripts to act more like an ATM machine, you want another transaction, enter your pin number. By forcing random security tokens to prove the user actually wants the remote connection, you could reduce this from happening.

They can figure out who is doing what, they just don’t want to use the political muscle to protect the public, or we have intentionally put people that know nothing about the industry in positions of power in Congress that sit on these over sight comittees? America has people like Shiela Jackson Lee in Congress, who easily confuses Mars with the moon?

Yes hackers can be powerful, however once you disable the scripts they are using, or make them more difficult to work, they leave you alone and do real work? Do hackers honestly think people give them hacking programs without installing back doors on their own systems?

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Bonnieblue2A
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:12pm
For seriously disturbing information of how we are being tracked through our computers, phones, thermostates, electric meters, RFIDs, etc…. listen to Dr. Katherine Albreict’s radio show or read her books on the topic.

The internet data mining and this rise of computers/drones is truly a beast. No good will come of this in the long run.

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Snipet
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:00pm
Pretty simple just put a sticky note over your web cam if you think you have been hacked let them look at the back side of a piece of yellow paper for a while. Also a good idea to turn off you web cam.

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- FlowerBell
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:22pm
  I have a plastic “super clip” used to seal potato chip bags that I keep next to the computer, it has a nice silicon strip so it doesn’t scratch the screen. As soon as I open my laptop I put the clip over the top of the screen where the camera is, easy peasy.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:51pm
I hacked into Wango’s web cam. Then I gouged my eyes out with a pencil.

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- SaturdaysWarrior76
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:22pm
  lol
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:57pm
  Just curious….how are you going to delete the disturbing image printed in your mind? How many bottles of whisky would it take to?
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:05am
  Mr or Ms GONZO,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  You ARE the drone I’m looking for.
  
  It is so.
  
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LOJ
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:39pm
No privacy any more, just prying and spying on average citizens.

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Sturmritter
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:15pm
This is a moot point if people would just disconnect their webcams when not actively using them. Sometimes the way to prevent hacking is simply. Disconnect your computer from the internet when you aren’t using it.

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- DeniseJ
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:05pm
  some computers have them built in, newer ones I think. IF mine had a webcam would have a GREAT view of a chair and nothing else, LOL
  
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:34pm
  I saw the light come on one day when I wasn’t using it (mine is built in). I put a piece of tape over and restarted the computer. The light went off. Not sure if it was malfunctioning or if there was funny business going on.
  
  I would be one of the most boring people to look at. Just me in front of the computer with a blank background. If my computer was doing things on its own, I’d take care of that really quickly.
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:05pm
Linux

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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 5:07pm
  That is about to happen.
  
  Between emulators and more software being written for Linux outright, the barriers to running a linux system are falling for the average person.
  
  Tired of people like Bill Gates shutting the door behind them once they make the big time all the while going on a big charity kick.
  
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- WestTexasGuy
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 10:29pm
  Amen…not a Windows/Apple computer in the house! All are running Linux.
  
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TRSFrancisco
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:58pm
Well that is certainly unsettling.

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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:21pm
  Easy solution make it a felony to hack punishable by 10 years in prison this includes warrantless hacks by the government officals.
  
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Not Quite
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:40pm
While this specific technique may be new this has been around since the inception of the internet. ie. netbus and others

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Vision Harry
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:36pm
If you really think you are safe in your own home, try typing your own home address into google search, then click on the “Truvia” site option. Now, as you are looking at a very recent picture of your your home, scroll down with the veiwer compass and look at the shadow image of the vehicle taking videos of your “Private belongings.”
Welcome to 2013/1984

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- annie-oakley
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Ok, I have to say something. I have seen you write this statement before on this forum. If one types “Truvia” into a web browser, all you will get is info about a sweetener called Truvia. I believe you meant to say “Trulia”, which is a real estate website. I have used Trulia and the web photo of my own house is not particularly recent. I know this because it shows a car parked in my driveway that I have not owned for well over a year. Also, it only shows the outside of the home, just exactly as google earth does and has for years. Do I like it? Not really. But it is not exactly a major privacy intrusion.
  
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- jujubeebee
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:24pm
  annie’s right Harry
  
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- Vision Harry
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:44pm
  Yep, sorry about the spelling error, but it is no less creepy that the inside and outside of your home are catalogued and filed away in a super-sized storage facility at the pleasure or our “Feral” Government. Just sayin’
  
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- tnman65
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:25pm
  Well that just really sux. Thanks, I guess.
  
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The Jewish Avenger
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:35pm
They’re users no hackers

Big Difference.

The difference?
You WANT to hire a hacker for security on your servers you want a user to watch for the actual attacks.

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xrayeyes
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:30pm
As to the webcam… black electric tape when you’re not using it!

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- independentvoteril
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:09pm
  Ever since I saw what the one school did to their students I have had a piece of folded paper taped to my webcam .,. since I don’t use my webcam for anything it’s up there 24/7..
  
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- daisy1955
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:29pm
  Of course you can be spied on via your computer and webcam – I thought everyone knew that. I have covered my webcam with a piece of paper since the day I got it. In fact, I sometimes have to be reminded to remove the paper when Skyping with someone.
  
  “It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you.”
  
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galaxie_man
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:29pm
There’s also the tool used through Adobe Flash Player used to open your webcam and record your reaction while watching YouTube or Hulu videos. You’ll know it’s trying to do this if your browser and flash player security is set to a moderate level. A panel keeps popping up in the center of the video for something called “yming.com” asking permission to save a little piece of data on your computer. It is the program they use. I don’t remember the details, but you can search on the details to lock down your flash player on-line to prevent this.

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omega309
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:24pm
And you think Chicago is not using this to help their puppet, yea right.

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:14pm
“The Disturbing Technique to Used Control Computers and Spy Through Webcams That You Should Know About”

Aaaaagh…my head!

Here is some free editing Blaze.

“The Disturbing Technique Used To Control Computers And Spy Through Webcams That You Should Know About”

I keep stating that you should hire me as an editor or writer. Maybe you should look into it?

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- woodyee
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 2:34pm
  I want to be Liz’s proof-reader, but Billy could also use a little help…You can have Billy.
  
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- ozchambers
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:05pm
  I am a reference on Ghost of Jeffie’s resume. That guy talks real good! ;-P
  
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- gyro
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Dont pick on Liz Klimas — she writes better than me / spells better than me and types better than me and MAY BE WATCHING YOU
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 3:33pm
  Ghost, did you see the headline about the “Tiger” killing that girl? Picture of a lion right under it and no further mention of the “tiger”. LOL, I don’t think they ever even went back and fixed it.
  
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- ozchambers
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:11pm
  Hey Ghost, is that you at a poker table? Looks like a stack of chips in front of you..sorta. hard to tell. I’m a player.
  
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- TheseTruths
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 10:02pm
  “The Disturbing Technique Used To Control Computers And Spy Through Webcams That You Should Know About”
  
  Do you have a justification for capitalizing the infinitive “to” and the conjunction “and”? : )
  
  On many sites, I see so many more errors than I used to, or than I used to see in print media, that I tend to cut them some slack. The pace is getting faster all the time.
  
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- Pontiaku
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:40pm
  I like how the blaze included a video (taken down by youtube) of someone that probably DID NOT consent to being in a news story. Let alone be recorded in the first place.
  
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