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As the recent story of a Pennsylvania school that watched its students over laptop webcams illustrates, there is a downside to these ubiquitous cameras.
To add to that caveat, kids especially should be aware that ANYTHING that they send into cyberspace is there FOREVER, and can show up on any of a number of sites that will potentially embarrass them. Never write or upload anything that you would not want seen by strangers, much less family and friends.
It can be more then embarrassing.
Someone (like a molester, for example) who wants G-d forbid to do someone harm, knows exactly who to look for, once their pictures are on the internet.
The camera can simply be turned toward a wall or corner or down toward the desk
(as long as everyone always remembers to leave it that way, when not in use).
i sometimes use my webcams and mics to listen in on or watch whats going on at my home or office…love it.
A plus about webcam… (well actually skype).
I missed a week of therapy recently for whatever reason and my therapist called me and said that we could do a skype session. It didn’t end up working out but I thought it was pretty cool that she had even thought of it.
I have nothing to hide if they want to see me sitting in my shmattas so be it , i will not be striking an Anthony Weiner pose.
The Goq…very funny
ty mike
ICOT the check is in the mail lol.
I’m not usually a paranoid person, but isn’t the little diode next to the web cam supposed to indicate if it’s on or off? Specifically, is there any chance that a hacker could have turned on the webcam but not triggered the light to go on? I thought that the purpose of the light was to protect people from this.
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