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My main worry about computers with webcams built in, is the ability
for someone to hack into the computer and watch you at any given
moment.
It would be great is someone made tiny curtains that could be mounted
over the webcam, as an old school safety precaution.
Origami Webcam Cover
http://www.grosse.i.../hd223sd/hd223.html
[jutta, Mar 14 2009]
Plastic Webcam Cover (design, not product)
http://www.yankodes...cy-put-a-lid-on-it/
[jutta, Mar 14 2009]
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I like the concept... but it would be better to simply make webcams (and I don't know if they do or not) like a lot of digital cameras, the ones that have a shutter that opens and the lense telescopes out when you push a button to take a picture. To make it hack-proof all you have to do is make the shutter completely independent of the electronics, completely spring-loaded or on a track and you manually slide it open when you want to use it, slide it closed when you're done. |
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I want a tiny tiny window sill with flower pots to mount underneath the curtains. |
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My webcam (tech-com) has a translucent plastic shutter like thing that can be dropped down to cover the lens. |
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The Xerox EuroPARC offices all had little webcams in so that anyone else in the building could peek at you and see what you were doing (this was about 20 years ago, so quite advanced for the time). Privacy was preserved, however, by having a short sound clip of a creaky door opening played about a second before the camera would take an image. |
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hippo, thats hardly enought time to do your flies up let alone get your legs back into your cycling shorts whilst changing for the office. |
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bob, if you are that worried you can always turn the computer off and put a tea cosie over the lens. |
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[hippo] is correct and I visited that lab whilst I was working within Xerox in the UK. One of their cameras was replaced the "eye" of a manikin, which had a sign saying "I might be a dummy but I'm watching you". |
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