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from the and-this-one-goes-into-my-private-collection dept.
lhsi writes:
"The Guardian has revealed that GCHQ has been collecting the images of millions of Yahoo! webcam chat users, whether or not they were intelligence targets.
In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.
Yahoo reacted furiously to the webcam interception when approached by the Guardian. The company denied any prior knowledge of the program, accusing the agencies of 'a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy'.
According to the documents provided by Edward Snowden, the system, called Optic Nerve, saved one image every five minutes from Yahoo! users' feeds. These users, the documents reveals, were 'unselected', i.e. indiscriminately targeted. GCHQ doesn't have the technical means to make sure no images of UK or US citizens are collected and stored by the system."
(Score: 1) by jt on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:38PM
If you're worried, of course, then all you need is one pair of wirecutters to smash the camera lens and snip the microphone wires in your computer. You should also cut all radio antennae, and pull all the wires from the walls. Perhaps cut the speaker wires too in case these are being used for covert ultrasonic exfil, and maybe cut the monitor wires to prevent tempest. Don't use the keyboard in case someone is listening to the distinctive sound of each key, and of course don't use the CPU which leaks information as audio about the code it is executing.