Webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ

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Here is yet another reason to be wary of web cameras in laptops, etc... We've known that hackers can access these cameras through viruses and malware, but now it seems as if intelligence agencies are no better. It turns out that they've been accessing the web cameras of millions of innocent people.

Who knows, perhaps they've even spied on you!

Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ

"Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal."
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"In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally."

Read the story here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/f ... rnet-yahoo