{"id":97768,"date":"2013-12-10T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/?p=26095"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:46:08","slug":"cover-your-webcam-with-a-post-it-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/cover-your-webcam-with-a-post-it-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Your Webcam With a Post-It Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"color: #000099;\">Protect Yourself from Big Brother<\/h3>\n<p>We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/06\/the-single-most-important-step-to-protect-yourself-from-government-spying.html\">noted<\/a> in June that the single most important thing you can do to protect yourself from government spying is to realize that the NSA can turn on your cellphone or laptop&#8217;s videocamera and microphone without you knowing. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/09\/the-government-is-spying-on-us-through-our-computers-phones-cars-buses-streetlights-at-airports-and-on-the-street-via-mobile-scanners-and-drones-through-our-smart-meters-and-in-many-other-ways.html\">see this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now that even the Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2013\/12\/07\/fbi-hacker-bomber\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">reported<\/a> that your webcam can be remotely activated and you won\u2019t even know it\u2019s on, awareness of this vulnerability has gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>To give you an idea of how mainstream this concern is going, Mashable&#8217;s Lance Ulanoff made a short video to show you how to use a post-it to block your webcam (duct tape works, but leaves a sticky mess on your laptop if you ever want to take it off to start using your webcam):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/hQgYm7WjrQV\/embed\/simple\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/cover-videocam-post-note.html\">Cover Your Webcam With a Post-It Note<\/a> was <b><u>originally published<\/b><\/u> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/\">Washington&#039;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protect Yourself from Big Brother We noted in June that the single most important thing you can do to protect yourself from government spying is to realize that the NSA can turn on your cellphone or laptop&rsquo;s videocamera and microphone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/cover-videocam-post-note.html\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/cover-videocam-post-note.html\">Cover Your Webcam With a Post-It Note<\/a> was <b><u>originally published<\/u><\/b> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/\">Washington&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}