Hahaha...this happened to a friend of mine, as well.
He had gotten a new webcam (a second one), and put it up on the wall in his room. One day, while he was at work, his sister called him, saying "Rob, have you checked your webcam lately?"
Turns out his roommate, a flogging boy for a local frat, was beating his meat to Showgirls, nonetheless. Rob's sister called his house, asked for the violator by name and said "Um...do you know the webcam is on?"
Needless to say, when Rob got home, his roommate begged for forgiveness ("I'll do anything you want for 2 years if you don't say anything!"), but his secret was ruined. Oh yeah, Rob also made a habit of locking his door. Sometimes that's the best security. =)
found an interesting article on ZDnet regarding Redhat's CEO talking back to M$.
here's the link:
http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,268 9856,00.html
some may have seen this before, but if you haven't, it's worth a quick peek.
jack mayo, one of the lead PM's for Whistler/XP, spoke at my univ. last night.
interesting, i asked about the remote capabilities. he uses it to log in from the road (over a 56K connection) and says it works well. i didn't pry too much into the security side of things, but with M$, you've got to believe it will be a major liability.
oh yeah...my first/. post. mod me nicely =)
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Hahaha...this happened to a friend of mine, as well. He had gotten a new webcam (a second one), and put it up on the wall in his room. One day, while he was at work, his sister called him, saying "Rob, have you checked your webcam lately?" Turns out his roommate, a flogging boy for a local frat, was beating his meat to Showgirls, nonetheless. Rob's sister called his house, asked for the violator by name and said "Um...do you know the webcam is on?" Needless to say, when Rob got home, his roommate begged for forgiveness ("I'll do anything you want for 2 years if you don't say anything!"), but his secret was ruined. Oh yeah, Rob also made a habit of locking his door. Sometimes that's the best security. =)
found an interesting article on ZDnet regarding Redhat's CEO talking back to M$. here's the link: http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,268 9856,00.html
some may have seen this before, but if you haven't, it's worth a quick peek.
jack mayo, one of the lead PM's for Whistler/XP, spoke at my univ. last night. interesting, i asked about the remote capabilities. he uses it to log in from the road (over a 56K connection) and says it works well. i didn't pry too much into the security side of things, but with M$, you've got to believe it will be a major liability. oh yeah...my first /. post. mod me nicely =)