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Peeping Tom Worm That Uses Webcams
Ant writes "The Register mentions a new Windows worm known as Rbot-GR that is currently circulating accross the net. It has the capability to spy on users using webcams. " I'm surprised that it took this long.
Mitch: And from now on, stop playing with yourself!
Kent: It is God!
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I don't think I want to see what's on the other side of that computer screen. I prefer to just believe what foxylady687783 tells me she's doing.
I wonder how long it will take for the writer(s) to regret this one. I mean, look at the demographic most likely to own web cams and leave them connected to their computer. Would you really WANT to spy on them?
Now, if you could get your ex-girlfriend (or boyfriend, whatever) to install the trojan...
Right is wrong when left is right.
With all teh extra features MS incorporates into it's software (bugs) it is surprising it took this long.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
... a massive supply of horrible focus and bad resolution porn has started to show up on the Internet. Film(s) at 11.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Ahh.. Reality TV at its best. I wonder how long it will take for NBC to pick this one up?
Now, can somebody port it to cameraphones?
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
/. home page. I guess I need that worm to read slashdot now.
That's what I saw when I first clicked on the link to "Read More" for the
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Kinda funny that first clicking on the story brought up "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." .. perhaps the /. editors have experienced this web cam worm thing first-hand and are.. covering up, so to speak?
On second thoughts, no.. let's not even go there. *shudder*
even as a trojan! Imagine the emails..."click here now to see young, hot unsuspecting amateur teens!"
who wrote this worm again, I wonder....?
Moo.
When I clicked the link it said, "Nothing to see here, move along."
I'm surprised that it took this long.
I'm still waiting for the virus to be made that replaced the users background with the goatse.cx (or goat.cx, nowadays) man.
Where do I sign up?
I figured this would come along soon. Gee, does this worm take control of Macs with iSights, too?
Uh oh... I'm going to have to point my web cam somewhere other than my "den of love" from here on out! How DARE they view me and not pay for it on a monthly basis!
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
Remember the old "fun with bo2k" pics that were floating around?
I expect much more of these things in the future.
I would link directly, but bandwidth.
*NEWS FLASH* There has been a sudden surge in Amateur Pornography. Many of the new porn Starlets are trained so well they act as though they don't even know the camera is on!
... and in the DRM, bind them.
Who wants to watch a bunch of geeks working at their computers? Everyone knows only geeks know how to run webcams.
Unless the virus writers set up webcams as a service for sorority girls on the side...
More porn spam.
I'll tell you what the 'effect' is! It's pissing me off!
Instead of fixes, I'll be expecting apps to pop up that allows you to view the victims. Some people will really get a kick outta this.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
it sounds harmless enough... what's there to spy on anyway except male crotches...
Anyone have any idea where these infected machines are listed? Can we get a peek? Cuz I just know that like 90% of unsuspecting hot women like to undress in front of their web cams!
This is an idiotic virus, isn't it? Didn't the author take into account that way more than 99% of the time, webcams aren't pointed at anything interesting?
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
I'm sure the US Government will be incorporating code from this worm in their next generation "Carnivore" project...
Finch : God bless the Internet
I whole heartedly agree.
Free XBox, PS2
to catch yahoo "cam-whores" with this one. I know I'm not the only guy on /. that has seen some of the wild stuff that goes on in yahoo cam sessions
do the Editors expect IT Managers to use this worm to spy on their employees or something?
sulli
RTFJ.
Methinks that some bored kid got tired of all the webcam pron sites out there and went out to make his own "real" digital version of a voyeur binoculars
Fourty-two!
Whew! For a minute there I thought you said, "I'm surprised that it looks this long."
``I'm surprised it took so long''
What of the worm that replaces Windows by a Real OS?
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Webcams have been around for quite some time now and they are only getting around to writing trojans to be a peeping tom now? I dont personally own a web cam, have no need, but even if I did I probably would unplug it if it wasnt in use or might have an "American Pie" show.
Meet the Peeping Tom worm By John Leyden Published Monday 23rd August 2004 14:56 GMT A worm that has the capability to using webcams to spy on users is circulating across the Net. Rbot-GR, the latest variant of a prolific worm series, spreads via network shares, exploiting a number of Microsoft security vulnerabilities to drop a backdoor Trojan horse program on vulnerable machines as it propagates. Once a backdoor program is installed on a victim's PC it's game over and an attacker can do whatever takes their fancy. But Rbot-GR comes pre-loaded with functionality specifically designed to control webcam and microphones. Other variants of the worm do not come with this "Peeping Tom" routine, according to AV firm Sophos. "If your computer is infected and you have a webcam plugged in, then everything you do in front of the computer can be seen, and everything you say can be recorded," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "It would be like having a regular web cam conversation except you wouldn't know you're taking part in it." Aside from its voyeuristic behaviour, the Trojan component of the worm will attempt to steal registration information for games and PayPal passwords from infected machines. It's a thoroughly nasty piece of code so it comes as some relief that Rbot-GR hasn't particularly widespread. Sophos has received only as handful of reports about the worm and most vendors rate it as a medium-risk threat. As usual, Rbot-GR is a Windows-only menace. ®
But how a Virus installs the webcam on your computer is beyond me!
Place your sign against a wall, point the webcam to it. Sign says,
WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE ARE CALLING YOUR PARENTS.
Sure, you never find out what happens, but it might be fun.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Were watching you ne0....
Seems like physical security is the only way to be truly certain that your webcam isn't spying on you. Unplug it or cover it up or something when it isn't in use.
I wonder how long it'll be before web sites start popping up with unauthorized videos from hijacked webcams.
I remember several christmases ago the "original" elf bowling spread it's way through e-mails. I heard that the program did the same as this worm and activated peoples webcams, and streamed it to one guys website/computer whatever. He then supposedely published the more comical movies that he made. I can't verify if this is true, or just a fun rumor that I heard...
Where do these images go?
It would be interesting if they were 'forced' upon a p2p service (other trojan'd computers could propagate the files) or put up on a curio website for all you voyeurs/exhibitionists out there.
Although, it'd be pretty obvious who takes credit once the paychecks from ad revenue starts rolling in.
I for one will be posing nude infront of my webcam for the next 48 hours hoping that I'm infected.
-- dK
Sub 7 / BO and others have given the user *cough* kiddie *cough* this ablility for some time.
Sure they're not a worm, but the idea isn't new.
Funny now that I think about it, but I used to use Sub 7 on my home computer so I could access it from anywhere via an odd port and password protected. I could view my web cam, take control of my computer, ftp files upload and download to where-ever I was.
Honestly, it was an extremely useful program. And when I was done, I'd just shut down the server.
I've moved over to linux so I can ssh now, but as windows went, it was still one of the best remote programs I've ever used.
www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
put black electrical tape over the lens when not using the camera. I thought most people did something to cover the lens or plug the camera.
Jason
ProfQuotes
Geeks can just go any lengths to meet a girl. :-o
:-S
I'd like to know the guy (I assume it's a guy) that made this virus. "Woo, I just got this idea -- if I write a virus to see other users, I might see pr0n!"
Hmm, on second though I'm not sure I'd like to know him.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Have you ever noticed that only the Windows computers get the worms, and Linux computers are very seldom attacked?
Thank goodness for Linux's permissions controls. Maybe this new worm will get a few more Windows users angry enough to finally switch to Linux, where they won't be bothered much by such garbage anymore.
Off topic, does any Slashdotter have access to the systems in the University of Florida's sorority dorms??
Back Orifice has has this capability since at least 1999. http://www.cultdeadcow.com/tools/bo.html
I know flash has the capability to receive input from webcams, will there be another round of worms/javascript virii that can exploit this? I know how to develop stuff in flash, but these types of net hacking are way beyond me. The Spoon is too big.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
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# Allows others to access the computer
# Steals information
# Uses its own emailing engine
# Reduces system security
# Records keystrokes
# Installs itself in the Registry
I dont think the system is very secure if the worm got in in the first place. That and it IS a WINDOWS worm.
I have several people I will be buying webcams for. I'll make sure I install the 'drivers' as well.
Where can we download the videos?
What makes you think it wasn't in their last generation "Carnivore" project?
B02K could use webcams (maybe even the original BO via a plugin). I've seen several variants that do this. Perhaps this is just the first one circulated via e-mail that does this.
Think of the possibilities! If you could infect a pay-per-minute webcam site, then you get all the free live porn you could ever want! Anyone know how to get ahold of the data coming out of infected boxes?
C'mon, what are you expecting to see, really? People making out infront of their cameras? Ha!
More likely:
Some drone plodding away at a spreadsheet
A gamer wondering why his framerate just dropped 10% on d00m 3
George W. Bush picking his nose and rolling it into a little ball
A guy with a big beard and mustache, wearing a bedsheet over his head, two-finger typing instructions to a cell to get him early tickets to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, before staging this next deadly attack.
CowboyNeal with food stains all down his tshirt (ecch!)
J. K. Rowling gnawing on the pencil while deciding how the next character dies in Harry Potter. 'Zapped .. eaten .. hmmmm...'
A couple of norwegian guys with a couple paintings propped against the wall behind them.
A Slashdot moderator about to zap this post -- 'Worst post ever!'
William Shatner writing lots of kissing and strutting scenes into his appearance in Enterprise and removing that bit where he's required to act without his toupee on.
An ILM designer creating the next 'Jar Jar' character -- 'No, make it look more like Hello Kitty...
Honestly, voyeurism is this desperate?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Sub7 and Netbus have been able to do this for _years_. What's the big deal?
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
No, stop, no, this was just a joke, I don't really want to see them.
ARGHH, geeks in underwear.
What about a worm that would automatically talk girls into stripping for it via IM and deliver the video streams to its creator? It could also come with an advanced pattern-matching algorithm to only pick the streams from the really hot chicks and send the rest over to /dev/null.
Man, now that would be an invention.
Score: i, Imaginary
I guarantee someone is already working on this.
sulli
RTFJ.
...is a built in flesh tone detector.
*shudder at thought*
Probably better off with a "people-noone-wants-to-see-naked" detector though.
it's about time! :-D
Sorry you missed out on the whole BackOrafice thing, which had both of the functionalities of this worm. It was a fun time in the computer world... where were you?
Your mammas flamebait.
Translation: "Why didn't I think of this first!"
This may very well turn out to be the incentive I need to break my nose picking habit.
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
Anyone got any screenshots? :)
So what you're saying is that they're hoping to get a few co-eds who haven't updated their machines while they're dressing, undressing, or being general eye candy.
Haec merda tauri est. Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
That concept is hardly new. Back In The Day, Sun workstations used to ship with live microphones built in to the case which had open access rights. Want to listen to a meeting in someone's office? Just telnet to their desktop.
It's not quite the same as a camera, but it was twenty years ago.
This came up at several past Defcon conventions.
The consensus for the best defence was rather than running complex firewall and host-based protection software, turn the camera to face the wall.
It is currently unbroken and no hacker has yet to figure out a way get past this.*
Personally I think my own defence is even better, I don't own/use a webcam.
* - This defense looses viability if you have a computer controlled webcam mount.
Its not users who are broken, it's systems not taking account their likely behaviour and fixing it technically.
That these worm writers could create something impressive. I mean, some of the stuff they are doing is rather creative and in a perfect world I guess they would do something usefull with their skills...like contribute to fixing the gagillion holes in Windows. You know, the same ones they are exploiting with the worms. However, I'm just dreaming.
... a caterpillar as icon next to it?
You know it makes sense, a little reminder from jointm1k.
I woulda called it something more interesting like Fugly-MoFO.32.
FLR
I'm goint to register www.Rbot-GR-Pr0n.com and make my millions! Of course this site will only work with Internet Explorer 5.1 and above. Sorry Firefox.
Seriously, if someone comes across it, I'm going to second calls for a major /. voyeur party. Just figure out where this thing drops its imagery...
I'm all about pictures of 15-yo gamers picking their nose in front of Doom3. I'd laugh my ******* *** off.
--------------------- -me, Crusher of those who are Foolish (don't be foolish)
Oh, no... Melissa is hunting for the Assassin so when she's "wide awake and physical" tomorrow, she'll be able to take her out quickly and get on with more important things.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
The editors are pissed about something and decided to punish everyone, guilty or innocent, by using the IT color scheme.
There is a very similar element to this in the Halo 2 / I Love Bees alternate-reality game - a malevolent artificial intelligence is spying on a user in the story using her webcam, and other webcams.
coincidence?
probably.
What you suggest works only if camera has no computer controlled rotator.
There you are, staring at me again.
Subseven achieved this level of intrusion, offering it as a convenient menu option!
"Don't waste your time or time will waste you" -MUSE
I actually predicted this ages ago (sadly just to my friends who have an unhealthy interest in www.aminaked.com). The way I saw it was that if, via a worm or virus, you could trawl a few shots of PC users doing "one handed typing" and then threaten to send the images to all of their email address book, you'd have a pretty good blackmail setup...
I remember cleaning a trojan/virus/backdoor off a friend's computer a few years ago that allowed this among other things. It's not like this is new, maybe because this is all it does (dunno if that's all it does) it get's on the front of /. I love slashdot but this is not frontpage newsworthy especially in the wording that was used.
Patrik
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It would be interesting to see what GW is doing!
Maybe this is legal with the PATRIOT act. As long as its the government doing it. Too bad terrorist don't tend to use web cams. But I would bet John Ascroft is just drooling at the prospect of bringing criminal masturbators to justice. No point in waiting for god to chastise those sinners. Seriously though, I find this more interesting than alarming. Maybe because the apeal of web cam are for sex and sex only (and I don't have one). Also as previously mentioned the types who use web cams are not the bold model types, using the internet as a confidence buffer. The one thing that I would mention is that confused teenage girls with low self esteem have a tendency to use webcams to striptease their boyfriends or just people who sweet talk them on the internet. Of course if they're dumb enough to stream x-rated video to anyone, than a worm that looks in isn't doing much more harm. I don't use webcams neither have I ever watched a webcam from my computer, so this kind of surveilance is not that scary. but privacy is important. I also think that the likely hood of some sleezey hacker looking in on what I do is not likely to effect my life at all. There is some blackmail prospects there but not really. I would be more concerned about this kind of insideous worm being used by some kind of government or corperate organization. Big Brother is scarier than habitual-matsturbator Bob.
i never wanted to embrace this worm idea more than after reading your post
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
i'd like to get a version of that and change it a little. what i'd like it to do is open a window and loopback the feed to the host computer. just imagine the look on someone's face when they realize that they are looking at images of themselves from say two minutes prior.
Is it 5:30 yet?
One of my webcams is pointed to the window. So I make sure I have a little bit real world imagination while hacking away.
It just scared me to death as I noticed this fat ugly worm creeping over my window.
OK, so where's the link ?
Type "Godiva" (without the quotes) into the search box at http://wikipedia.org.
That'll teach you - medieval trolls !
Just point your webcam back at your monitor, and surf the IT portion of Slashdot. The voyeurs out there watching your webcam will go blind in short order.
Gosh! Who would wanna watch me wank when I look at daily porn pictures of www.thehun.net ?? Sick pervert!
my Logitech Color Quickcam with Kernel 2.6.7 it is highly appreciated. ;-)
My Intel PC Camera Pro has a nice shutter that you can slide over the lens. I always use it, kind of automatically. IMHO most webcams should have something like that but it seems many don't.
uselessjunk.net falls as another victiom of the /. effect, and it wasn't even from a front-page post.
Ouch.
You wouldn't catch much of interest in my home office now ("Ooo! Look! He's watching the printer!"), but when I bought my webcam back in college I intentionally sought out a model with a manual power switch and lens cover for this very reason.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!
I would like to point out that according to us magazine, Paris Hilton carries a phone cam. I wonder how long will we have to wait before the vids are out on kazaa?
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
this. Ahhh, Back Orifice was fun (as someone else noted).
I remember doing something similar to my friends with an ICQ spoof program, my favorite went something like from UIN(666): "This is Satan, sell me you soul.", UIN(333): "This is God, don't listen to Satan.", UIN(1): "This is your mother, don't listen to either of them." It was even better if they tried to add the new UINs to their contact list and they all came back invalid. (The minimum is something like 1001)
The Register article is short on details, but the trojan does pull paypal and other info from the machine. If they get enough info on you your headshot would be a nice piece of data to have to forge an picture ID.
I know you're kidding, but considering more than half of internet users in the US are always on broadband users and the number of webcams sold/bundled with PCs and you've got yourself quite a number of people to spy on.
Or they might just send wacky pop-ups to solicit expressions like the one this guy is sporting.
install windows. sit back, and relax.
My favorite part of this is the last sentence of the original article.
Years ago, when built-in microphones on monitors and such were a hot new item, wasn't a similar exploit discovered for listening via a monitor? Some large company shipped the screens with the mics on by default, and some clever person figured you could listen in on board meetings and your boss on the phone by remote accessing the mic output?
Mom? Dad? Ewww......
Give 'em something REALLY good to look at.
Scatter a bunch of fake corpses around your room. Splatter a little fake blood and gibs around for good measure, and then put a radial arm saw and sausage grinder off in a corner.
If you suspect the cam is active, throw on a bloody goalie mask and say into the camera... "I know where you live...."
http://pics.sjeemz.nl/libby/
I know most people are thinking about using this to look at naked people, but think of this. What if someone said " We have pictures of you (using drugs or with a prostitute , etc). Give us $$$." There are groups hacking to find black mail materal(i.e give $$$ or we publish credit card numbers) this could have foul uses for people other than peeping toms.
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicworms.gif is not a worm! It's a captepillar. I do have to admit that it is a nice graphic.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
"Intellectual Property" should be an affront to anyone capable of independent thought.
Amy
I've never coded a trojan, or even downloaded on on purpose. But I've always wondered why they didn't use the victoms machine better. Setting up a web page on it and then "auto-spam" the url to people using email, p2p, messanger type applications. They could offer a glimpse into someones computer, web camera like your tipical porn site. And then have a option to 'Find other camera' or 'view full page viedo' something along that line, where the user is mislead into installing the 'worm/trojan' on their own computer. In return for installing the trojan they could get better quality, and a list of other infected hosts. After completing the 'registration' or what ever the perps computer would become another infected 'node'. This could lead not only initial infections from exploits, and 'mail clickers', but to a second group of uneducated users who choose to abuse the problem and in the process 'help' spread the infection by people actualy telling their friends about the cool new underground site they found. Make it some nice p2p network and you could have a 24/7 voyuer network set up. Kinda a subseven/kazza type back door hidden, And a interface on a webport allowing others to access the network who don't even need to be infected. The common user would only think, i'm only visiting a site, I'm not running anything on my computer.
I'd love to see it try to open my isight's cover!
you need a life
A worm I WANT to spread to some of my co-workers...
Hey, you're right! It goes on the head.
(Score: -1, Stupid)
I'm surprised that it took this long.
I'm surprised that it was even made.
Why the hell did this moronic worm writer -- or, more likely, some dumbfuck who altered a perfectly fine, already existing worm -- add these functions when he already fucking has root/admin access on their machines? It just adds useless bulk to the worm; no wonder that the Register article says "It's a thoroughly nasty piece of code so it comes as some relief that Rbot-GR hasn't particularly widespread." Doesn't take a tech genius to realize that...
Just plain stupid.
"You should never doubt what nobody is sure about." -- Willy Wonka
didn't an old version of SunOS have /dev/mic readable by all? Reportedly it was quickly patched to prevent grunts from listening in on PHBs.
most of your webcams these days have a little plastic hood that flips down in front of the lens.
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This is yet another in a VERY long lineage of Agobot/Gaobot/Phatbot variants that simply has yet-another-plugin available from the "pwnership" backdoor menu.
The *bot line is a modular virus and people write plugins for it pretty much all the time.
*yawn*
I'm glad my iSight has a shutter... even if this particular worm doesn't affect me, it's always possible. It just makes sense to keep the camera physically blinded.
Just look in your spamfolder (if you have one ;) )
There are lots of Webcams with "interesting stuff" out there and lots of theme are running Windows! Weeeeeeee.
Now, I'm waiting for the spam that offers "1000+ hacked Webcams for only 1$/year".
UH, this is excelent survailence stuff. Think of taping the microphone as well. Basicaly, you have a full kit in a lot of computers. Surely spies use compramised PC's all the time to pick up just information?
When blaster hit I had to (well, ok, more like I volunteered to) go to a couple sorority houses and cleanup and patch the infected computers. The number of webcams was quite high (they liked playing with video chat) and, as you might expect, technical competence was quite low.
Yeah, most of it will be junk, but with the high distribution worms tend to get, it'll be funny to see some of the highlights that turn up. I'm betting some of the most hilarious stuff won't even be "hott chixx" but people doing stupid thing like sticking their fingers down their pants and then smelling them...
I use a very sophisticated a counter-measure that will blind anyone that tries to watch me through my webcam. I'm always naked and i like pr0n.
(too much informtion?)
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I saw it used for that purpose. A friend of mine had that, and he says "watch this, got this back orifice thing, you control folks computarz and stuff! Gonna turn on this chicks webcam, watch this now...."
so, he does what he does....anticipation......
AAAK, ME EYES!
It was some old lady shuffling around in her bathrobe! Mrs. Lubner deluxe!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
How come the topic icon for "worms" is a caterpillar?
Anyone remember B.O. (aka, Back Orifice, the Scourge of Win95)? That allowed anyone connected to an infected computer to watch through the webcam....
...and masturbating in front of the camera? I guess that would be the most common situation...
All fun and games until you see yourself.
Someone must be going though withdrawls over Jennicam shutting down.
Go not unto/. for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (but have nothing to do with the question)
thats some funny stuff, the burning sensation was almost worth it
The speaker had open access too. One of my coworkers got into BIG trouble for playing the audio of the "beans" scene of Blazing Saddles for one of his coworkers in a remote location right when one of the bigwigs was giving a tour to a VIP through the server room. (He didn't know about the tour when he decided to pull this prank.)
Not quite 20 years, since the Sparc didn't ship til 1990-ish, and the Sun3 didn't have the microphone. /usr/demo/laughter.au (or whatever the sample was called -- the one with several people laughing) to /dev/audio, placing each rsh in the background so all of them went off more-or-less at the same time.
Just the same, the mic and the speaker were really nifty. I was working on homework one night at around 2am, and noticed that a buddy was logged in on console in a lab of 15-20 sparcs. I checked the other machines, and he was the only one (logged in) in the lab, so I hacked out a quick shell script to rsh to each host and cat
A few minutes later, he wasn't logged in anymore.
I pretty much expected this at some point. Which was why I was pretty impressed when the Apple iSight included a physical shutter. If you twist it open, it automatically launches iChat AV. Twist it closed, and no one can see you unless they figure out how to patch the firmware with x-ray vision support!
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How long until the trolls figure out how to combine this with Last Measure (note to mods: link is to a site about Last Measure, not Last Measure itself)? Right now they're posting people's IP addresses and clipboard contents when they hit that site, but that's nothing compared to being able to take people's pictures and capture their reaction when they accidentally go to that site.
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Yeah, more like ten years. I can't count.
At an old government job we had rigged up a crude intercom system based on the Suns in everybody's office. The business related use lasted about a day and a half, then things went downhill in the predictable ways.
To all Computer "enthusiast's" whith web cams why dont you leave them on and let people stare....it would blind them with our pasty white'ness
Hmm... Sounds like ilovebees.com's hostile AI wasn't kidding when it said it had metastasized. Now it's gone from Spying on Dana to spying on everybody...
my bad.
Still, I won't expose my mandrake boxen to the net. IPCop stands in between. IPCop would equally protect Windows boxen from such worms.
(Or Smoothwall, or roll-your-own-openBSD-FW)
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't.
I guess I know why I felt hesitant about buying a webcam now... Well, that and the picture quality sucks, and I have to worry about which ones are supported in Linux, and I cannot think of any particular use for having one.
All data is speech. All speech is Free.
Thanks to the "Peeping Tom Worm That Uses Webcams" headline, my antipornography firewall has just blocked Slashdot frontpage.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
Computer A has an analog video capture card.
Computer B's second video card has a compatible analog output.
Computer B's analog output is connected to Computer A's analog input.
Computer B's analog output has a full screen picture of Goatse.
That'll teach em...
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All of our webcams, except one, are covered. :-)
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Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
Complete details here and here.
Copies of W32/Rbot-GR sent by the virus itself via email to people like me will either result in automatic, summary deletion of the email or the extracted attachment winds up as a 'harmless text file' that can be safely scanned for malware and deleted if infected or desired.
I am malware-free and effectively spam-free since 2004-07-15. Once the rates of email spam and malware become 'nonexistent', then my programs would have served their purpose. Until then, they are available to all who would want to use them.
Now can we do something about TCP/IP malware like Blaster and MyDoom and whatnot as that is the bigger threat to the internet now that an effective solution to email malware is available for use now?
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Perhaps here (Colossus, (The Forbin Project) by D.F.Jones):
FOR FORBIN--THE FOLLOWING ORDERS ARE TO BE COMPLIED WITH ON RECEIPT
1--PROCEED TO THE SECURE ZONE AND STAY THERE UNTIL FURTHER ORDERS
2--ARRANGE VIDEO AND SONIC SURVEILLANCE TO COVER YOU AT ALL TIMES CONNECT TO ALFA
3--DO NOT COMMUNICATE WITH GUARDIAN BUILDER
4--DISOBEDIENCE WILL CAUSE MISSILE LAUNCH WHICH WILL NOT BE INTERCEPTED
5--ACKNOWLEDGE FROM CPO PERSONALLY BEFORE 2100 GMT TODAY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM TO BE OPERATIVE IMMEDIATELY
I feel watched...
Slashdot: stuff for news, nerds that matter, matter for news, stuff that nerd
Rusty: They say tope is very soothing.
Ocean's Eleven
I talk about stuff.
Post links to it that you describe as pr0n.
Runner up: Post links to it described as bootleg copy of new Star Wars movie.
you don't live in Uruguay. Here, 0wning the cops networks would be so easy it wouldn't even be funny.
They have some intelligence assistance from the US. and they have access to everybody's private records, but ineptitude goes a long way.
"I'm surprised that it took this long."
SubSeven was able to do this years ago.
You meant "how then shall I emulate master Gates," dear anonymous twitter. pls fix kthx.
Hell.com had a web page which would capture and stream the user's webcam. I came across it while poking around their website. They had a chatroom type page and, if the user had a webcam, it would be displayed. I don't know how the functionality was available, if it was java script, a java applet (I don't remember clicking any acceptance box), or something else.
I often wondered, after that (circa 1999), how many other website administrators were happily scanning and capturing the webcams of users. Presumably, after a single visit to a page, the web cam connection could be preserved indefinitely.
Maybe it's better if the general public doesn't know these things. Can you imagine the uproar against MS when the yuppie soccer moms collectively find out that their online escapades away from their business straitjacket executive husbands have been captured for amateur pr0n?
+++ATHZ 99:5:80
That's where the good stuff is.
Call it "truth in advertising".
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
If a worm can turn on your WEBCAM,
what keeps it from turning on your
SPEAKER?
Does that mean Big Brother can listen
to conversations in any room,
where there is a computer / any computer
running?