{"id":98307,"date":"2013-12-12T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/fbi-can-secretly-and-remotely-activate-built-in-laptop-cameras\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:01:47","slug":"fbi-can-secretly-and-remotely-activate-built-in-laptop-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/fbi-can-secretly-and-remotely-activate-built-in-laptop-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Can Secretly and Remotely Activate Built-In Laptop Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Security Agency (NSA<\/a>) has no monopoly on the use of intrusivesurveillance<\/a>\u00a0tools to keep us all under the watchful eye of government.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that an elite team of hackers employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI<\/a>) have developed an application that turns on built-in laptop cameras. According to details provided in the story, the software can be turned on remotely by the g-men and perhaps most notably, the little green light that typically signals a \u201clive\u201d camera is not illuminated when this application is in use.<\/p>\n

In documents describing tactics uses by the\u00a0FBI<\/a>\u00a0to track an elusive suspected terrorist threat named \u201cMo,\u201d a short history of the program is revealed.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0FBI<\/a>\u00a0has been able to covertly activate a computer\u2019s camera \u2013 without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording \u2013 for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations, said Marcus Thomas, former assistant director of the\u00a0FBI<\/a>\u2018s Operational\u00a0Technology<\/a>\u00a0Division in Quantico, now on the advisory board of Subsentio, a firm that helps telecommunications carriers comply with federal wiretap statutes.<\/p>\n

Virtual hideouts are becoming increasingly rare as the federal government\u2019s hired hackers create increasingly sophisticated and surreptitious software, all with the aim of stretching the size of the\u00a0surveillance<\/a>\u00a0net.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0FBI<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0technology<\/a>\u00a0continues to advance as users move away from traditional computers and become more savvy about disguising their locations and identities. \u201cBecause of encryption and because targets are increasingly using mobile devices, law enforcement is realizing that more and more they\u2019re going to have to be on the device \u2013 or in the cloud,\u201d Thomas said, referring to remote storage services. \u201cThere\u2019s the realization out there that they\u2019re going to have to use these types of tools more and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has no monopoly on the use of intrusivesurveillance\u00a0tools to keep us all under the watchful eye of government. The\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0reports\u00a0that an elite team of hackers employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have developed an application that turns on built-in laptop cameras. According to details provided in the story, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98307","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}