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Stupid Design--The Needlessly Useless Webcam Activity Light

2017-03-23

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We've been told that our laptops can watch us without our knowledge. That little indicator light? Worthless. Hackers can get around that. But why? There's a simple way to make sure this is impossible, which is explored in this, the very first episode, of Stupid Design.

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And, the audio credit for the one tiny clip of a spooky song used to suggest ever so discretely that the comparison of microwave to camera was in fact a jab at Kellyanne Conway:

In the Past by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/304/in-the-past

Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org


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