Saturday, April 17, 2010

I can see you!

This happened back in February of this year, but I just stumbled across it. Apple MacBook laptops distributed to students in a Philadelphia suburb were equipped with Webcams that were apparently used to take pictures of the users.

I was curious to know how prevalent this practice is, and whether it affected other types of computers sold to the general public. Using some special software developed by PacoTech, Inc., which reverses the Webcam to show who might be watching you, I took a screen shot of someone who's been spying on me. Here it is:


Looks like you need to upgrade those speakers, Mr. President!
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4 comments:

  1. RebeccaHApril 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM

    Sort of gives the term Big "Brother" a whole new slant, doesn't it?

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  2. Brett LApril 18, 2010 at 11:44 AM

    I'm much more interested in knowing whether every school administrator who has admitted to seeing these will be prosecuted for child pornography if any of the pictures happen to have students in any form of undress. After all, it would be sending the wrong message to prosecute 14 year-olds who send each other such pictures and not adults who acquired them without the permission of the student... right?

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  3. PacoApril 18, 2010 at 1:31 PM

    Brett: Right.

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  4. mojoApril 18, 2010 at 3:13 PM

    Relax, it was a single school administrator with delusions of Gestapo-hood. And that's what you get for taking a pig in a poke, even if it's a really nice pig...

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