Everybody except Jeffrey Toobin (and probably his family) is having a good yuck over this incident.
- Never ever trust a Microsoft product
- Never ever trust anything connected to the Internet
- Never ever think your camera is off
There are even some reports that the microphone was turned on. So far I haven’t seen any reports that the audio was recorded so we don’t have the additional route of blatant yet enjoyable for others embarrassment of people asking
“Who’s name is he saying? That’s not is wife’s name is it? I hope that’s not his . . .”
Well, we shall leave it there. If you let your mind walk down the road of perversion you can easily entertain yourself for quite some time.
People always make fun of myself and other geeks when they see the yellow sticky or piece of electrical tape on our laptops. I’m told some even tape over the microphone after finding it.
We do it for a reason people. Whenever we are . . .
Innovating in an AGILE fashion
Yeah, yeah, that’s it!
Whenever we are innovating in an AGILE fashion, ahem, we always make sure the sticky is in place. What most people don’t know, is if you run one of the commercial operating systems, hackers can remotely activate that camera. Remember that the next time you take a break from surfing the Web to take a shower. You left the laptop open with the sticky off and if you’ve got even a passable body, video of you has probably been captured and posted to an Internet site.
Worse yet are these monitors with the camera built in. You probably bought one so you can work remotely. You can’t even close them. If you “just leave your computer on” someone can monitor you all of the time just like Alexa monitors all of your conversations.
Update: November 12, 2020
Ahhhh, the high price of masturbation during COVID-19. The New Yorker fired Jeffrey Toobin. Always keep those yellow stickies over the camera when you aren’t using it. Better yet, never buy a monitor with a camera!
Now that he has been fired from The New Yorker it probably won’t be long before CNN is forced to follow suit. Too bad. When he’s not masturbating he does some good work.