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Is it worth it to stick a camera on your computer? It seems a silly question. "Seal. And tin foil hat don't forget. You need someone with your secrets!" — that's the standard answer. But life repeatedly throws up the arguments in favor of the user who is accustomed to "think positively".

Only in recent days, such examples were two: the scandal with the suicide of Italian, intimate video which went hand and even sued, changed the name, but it still failed. Plus a modest admission of FBI Director James Comey: Yes, glue and all advise.

Both stories are not without reservations, but reservations of this sort that serve only to emphasize and even "paranoid" morality. Italian, Titian Canton, made that movie myself and shared it with an ex-boyfriend to get jealous. Stupid? Stupid. But such cases something is frequent.

Here only in the summer has left himself a 15-year-old American, a "naked" recording, which was leaked from Snapchat. So imagine what could be reaction of the person I was watching without permission, even if the authors of the voluntary shootings commit suicide!

Komi is known as the man who denies the right of a citizen to privacy in the context of mobile devices (that he demanded Apple to decrypt the iPhone killed by terrorists), but now for some reason, this most desired privacy for yourself.

So the course of events again and again leads to the same "stupid" question. And taking into account accumulated to the current time of the facts, that's what the logical chain is built.





Firstly, "blind" to their digital devices most people are smart and knowledgeable, and not at all senile cranks, digging shelters in case of nuclear Apocalypse.

Komi is just one, and it only mentions about the camera on the computer. But there is, for example, mark Zuckerberg — in the picture with the workplace which showed "poppy" not only taped camera and microphone. Edward Snowden even put the phones coming journalists in the fridge.

Rate yourself objectively: slightly more you are aware of someone from the trio. And if they don't consider paranoia deprivation digital devices "vision and hearing" whether or not to consider you? More of the same in Komi Republic, for example, said something like that was to stick the camera when I saw how it makes the person much smarter than him.

Secondly, spying on the users of digital devices not only for the sake of state secrets. Yes, the FBI Director and the founder of the largest social networks can be secret. But the events of recent years show that more often the object of surveillance are simple people, which seems to have nothing to hide.

Three years ago in the West thundered the investigation of the popular resource Ars Technica on "krysyatniki", rotteram — people who use remote administration tools (Remote Administration Tool RAT, hence the nickname) for peeping and eavesdropping for a simple setName. No doubt the problem is massive, because only one forum where fans hang out this fun (now deactivated HackForums.net) the number of victims was in the thousands.

Rattery cheating installed on the victim's computer spyware, then amused, watching her. Someone thus earns the majority simply takes pleasure in podavlivaya sacrifice, say, for picking his nose. Photos and videos then fly Network (that they decorate today's column is full of such good in the search engines on request rat slaves). And hardly in three years something has changed for the better.





Thirdly, in contrast to, say, the late 90s, when yours truly was operating on the wrong side of the law, with the then-popular Sub7 and BackOrifice, functionality and modern range of RAT tools have grown incomparably.

Partly because of the radical increase in the number and range of devices suitable for "espionage". Now not only computers, but also smartphones, tablet, "smart" TVs. And almost all have the Internet on so many microphone, on camera.

Worse, a whole class of legal software for parental control over children — which can be applied and which can be used for espionage. Finally, on mobile devices, the corresponding function is generally made part of the operating system: I'm talking about the built-in iOS and Android anti-theft tools that help to find the device if it is stolen, but which can benefit anyone from just knowing the password.

Fourth, the user still lacks control and treatment of this infection. Simply, the victim has no way of knowing that she was being watched. Fifteen years ago, I guess this could even complete novice: the computer was too slow and noisy device and when out of nowhere, he suddenly started to whisper "screw", I had a suspicion. Today the noise of the hard drive has nothing to define — many of the it is generally solid. And antiviruses, as before, help only in part — for the slow step only work on the computers, and not every program is defined as a virus.

Do you remember that story with American schools, when the administration decided to install distributed to students laptops, surveillance? Parents only found out about it when one of them got called into school because the child "caught" for something indecent.

I did not invent it, it really was. And again and again, repeating history when the rat sets on a digital device repairman? Most of the victims of ratting reside in blissful ignorance until, figuratively speaking, not be "stars of YouTube".





Finally, fifthly, there are still no methods or instruments capable of guaranteeing the common user that the secret surveillance of him is impossible. L

best thing isdigital hygiene — a set of tips on how to minimize the risk. Regularly update your browser and plugins (according to statistics via the browser it happens every other infection), do not visit suspicious resources, turn your head when downloading something in fayloobmenikah, take the time to click on the enclosure that came in the mail, etc.

And still this problem does not resolve. For obvious reasons, will always be vulnerabilities, and unwary users and the lack of experience or knowledge.

 



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Now, weigh all this and tell me: is the sticker on the camera still you seem paranoid? If you have something to lose if there is a risk to lose, why not insure?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, for example, sells a long-styled stickers of all varieties. And with mobile devices, a simple bilateral case. Since digital technology now controls our every step and every second, let her take on some of the limit!

PS the article contains a graphic work of Nic McPhee.published

 

Author: Eugene Zolotov

 



Source: www.computerra.ru/156003/no-cam/