Globalize Networks blog

A disturbing news story about computer security came out this week. In a high school in Pennsylvania, the students were given laptops with webcams to use outside of school. It was later discovered that the school was turning on the webcams remotely and spying on the students inside of their own homes! Hopefully the school administrators will be appropiately punished and prevented from doing this again. However, there is something simple you can do right now to prevent this kind of spying from ever happening to you. If you borrow a laptop with a webcam from someone, just tape a small piece of paper over the lens. You could just use tape for privacy reasons, but the paper will prevent damage to the lens from the glue on the tape. It’s a simple solution that will give you peace of mind. – Gretchen Bily, 18 East Web Design

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