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IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software
Vapon writes "A lady noticed her computer was running slower after she had brought her computer in to be repaired. She took the computer to a second repair shop where they found that one of the problems was that her webcam would turn on whenever it detected her around and was taking photos and uploading it to a website. The repair technician that installed the software has done this to at least 10 women and has photos of at least one undressing."
...you've got nothing to fear.
Does this count as being a private dick?
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Not that I would watch it, of course.
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I need to see a naked girl to shit in a cup, eat vomit, or get double stuffed to get hard thes days.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Once you jack off to Japanese girls puking in each other's mouths, you can't exactly go back to Playboy!
Will anyone dare to click on a link labeled "dick"?
Yes, well, Macs are special...
http://www.allen-poole.com/
...laptop watches you!
"The repair technician that installed the software has done this to at least 10 woman and has photos of at least one undressing."
I believe the correct word is womans, duh it's plural.
Srsly u guys. U guys, srsly.
I have deemed you cruft. Get on your knees.
the sheer cheek of it!
N.
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That's an unfriendly comment. You are so dead. I mean literally.
She took the computer to a second repair shop where they found that one of the problems was that her webcam would turn on whenever it detected her around and was taking photo's and uploading it to a website.
Vapon and Taco, meet Bob.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
A webcamera is one of the things that I will never again attach to my computer. I rigged up a webcam to my computer once so while I chatted with some chicks they could see me. My sister used my computer while I was away for a week. Looks like she would just invite some random lusers to use the webcam.
Well a message popped up one afternoon and it was from some luser telling me I was cute. I ask him how he know he said my webcam was on. Then he ask me if I would get naked for him. And it was a guy.
Camera in box.. box back to store. Now when some chick wants a picture I just direct her to a website where I have a picture of J. Random. Hunk.
Works for me.
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Bow-chicka-bow-wow!
Seriously though... unless the woman has the system in her bedroom, what are they hoping to see?
If they did it on my system, they'd just get web-cams of me reading slashdot and playing WoW in my underwear...
Speaking as someone who actually RTFA...
Pfft.. party pooper! Way to end the discussion of slashdot lawyers with your "facts"!!
not performing the correct service (after all, by "fixing" the computer he made it slower)
I always figured it would be a federal offense to install Norton software.
From TFA: "Marisel Garcia is one of eight or nine women in the Gainesville, Florida who is a victim of a Webcam Spy Hacker voyeurism scandal, orchestrated by Craig Feigin."
Not a victim of having her privacy invaded, not merely being spied upon.. but a full-fledged Webcam Spy Hacker Voyeurism Scandal. A WSHVS. Dear god, WHAT HAVE WE COME TO? I think I'll found a WSHVS victim anonymous.
End of lesson. You may press the button.
Give the guy a break. Slashdotters have a hard enough time with the concept of "woman". Now you expect him to get the plural right?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Yeah, but just look what it's done to your typing!
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Looks like Joe's is a KDE shop... where would I go for Gnome support?
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
Catching them would be impossible if they didn't try.
Not true. He already has the bullet with the person's name, so he could just read that and then try to track down that person..
I'd rather be lucky than good.
For those who don't believe in either, there is His Noodly Appendage.
Supreme Court decision "Griswold v. Connecticut"
I'm having trouble remembering ... which Vacation movie was that one again?
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Since when have facts ever stopped Slashdot lawyers?
Ahem... know many married people do you?
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I hope you understand the futility of trying to explain sexual relations to those on slashdot.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
Supreme Court decision "Griswold v. Connecticut"
I'm having trouble remembering ... which Vacation movie was that one again?
I think it was "The National Lampoons Right to Marital Privacy Regarding Illegal Restriction on the Use of Contraceptives in Connecticut Vacation"
You didn't see that one? ;)
-Taylor
Worldwide Military budgets: $2100 billion. Worldwide Space Exploration budgets: $38 billion. Really, world? Really?
Not really.There are people out there who will pay for any sort of lewd photos (it's a corollary of rule 34), and where Feign's going he's probably going to develop a taste for that sort of thing anyway.
What do you expect from a blind man?
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
that's what twitter wants you to believe. In fact, Anonymous Coward is yet another one of his sockpuppets.
It's a very elaborate troll.
Well, privacy wasn't a concept back then, but neither were webcams. I figure that if they had known that, in the future, it would be possible to install a camera to spy on really hot chicks undressing, Ben Franklin at the very least would have added a special constitutional amendment about how "Congress shall make no law abridging the right of nerdy guys to install cameras that spy on really hot chicks undressing", so maybe it's not illegal after all.
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