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Police Say Mac Tech Installed Spyware To Photo Women
CWmike writes "He was hired to fix their computers, but police say that Trevor Harwell instead installed spyware software that took candid photos of his clients in various states of undress. Harwell had been a Macintosh specialist with a Los Angeles-area home computer repair company called Rezitech. That's how he allegedly had the opportunity to install the spy software, called Camcapture, on computers. While working on repair assignments, the 20-year-old technician secretly set up a complex system that could notify him whenever it was ready to snap a shot using the computer's webcam, according to Sergeant Andrew Goodrich, a spokesman with the Fullerton Police Department in California. 'It would let his server know that the victim's machine was on. The server would then notify his smartphone... and then the images were recorded on his home computer,' he said. Police say they've found thousands of images on Harwell's computers and have identified dozens of victims, all of them women in Los Angeles and Orange County. Harwell was arrested Wednesday by Fullerton police." But was he a good repairman?
This guy was a rogue and clearly not following Apple policy. Apple states explicitly in their policy manual that spying on customers in any way--through their webcam, microphone, user accounts, etc.--is strictly prohibited for all Apple employees except Steve Jobs.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Apparently he is qualified to work for one of the school boards in Pennsylvania
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Now that is creative. Had to be some mighty dumb women who fell for that.
Don't these people know, that when the little green LED is on next to the camera there is something going on with the camera?
I do not know if there is any spyware that can disable that, but in my experience: whatever touches the camera, the led comes on.
I am surprised about all these secretly filmed students, thieves, women who have 1000s of pictures taken of them and never figured that GREEN LIGHT=CAMERA ON.....
Really, is there any software that can use the MAC cameras without turning the light on ?
Um... here you... go?
This guy seriously needs to get laid. Seriously.
Story is obviously a fake.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Fat girls need love too :p
On a semi-serious note what's up with attractive equaling super skinny? I like my women to actually look like women and not kids.
It has nothing to do with liking to see naked chicks. Sure, I like to see naked chicks too. I don't go install spyware on people's computers for that.
Similarly we all like money, but most of us don't go empty someone's bank account with a keylogger or phishing site. And most of us like sex, but we don't give someone some *ahem* surprise sex. And most of us would like something bad to happen to that guy who was the school bully or to some cruel ex or idiot boss or whatever, but we don't go set their house on fire. Etc.
Reducing it to liking or wanting something is ridiculously simplistic. The question isn't what he wanted, but how he went about that.
And frankly, few things piss me off than the kind of person who's only kept from being a bully or a crook by not having the balls to do it IRL, but who turns into a bully or a crook as soon as there's a couple of routers between him and the victim. I don't have much respect for the former category to start with, but the kind who thinks he's so L33T for hiding behind the screen to do it, ranks even lower for me.
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On a semi-serious note what's up with attractive equaling super skinny? I like my women to actually look like women and not kids.
The conventional explanation is that this is the standard in the fashion and advertising industries, and it's well known that those are dominated by gay men, who of course prefer women who look like boys. ;-)
On a more serious note, if you look at any of the "men's" magazines -- Playboy, Hustler, etc. -- you'll see that their standard of female beauty is pretty much the average-size woman, neither skinny nor fat. They don't even select for especially large breasts, just for "full" breasts.
And we can also go into the "scientific trivia" aspect: A number of studies have found that the most attractive image of either sex is very close to the average (in whatever society is polled). The most interesting is the surveys done by presenting a lot of photos of real people, mixed with computer-generated "average" images derived from N of the real-people photos, for varying values of N. The winners have been generally the images where N is large, i.e., a true "average" person among the set of photos.
So if you reject both skinny and fat women, and prefer an average-looking woman, you're just a normal guy. Similarly for women's choices of attractive men.
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