A 23-year-old student named Craig Feigin is facing possible felony charges in Florida for allegedly putting spyware of the worst kind on up to 10 women’s laptop computers. The programs, which he apparently wrote himself, would cause the integrated webcams on the laptops take snapshots at certain times when a person was close and upload them to a server on the Internet, where he would be able to browse them at will. This included several photos of at least one woman in various states of undress. The moral of the story: Make sure you trust your computer repair geek, or at least keep an eye on what they’re doing to your machines. [Ars]
Santiago Matamoros
August 7, 2008 at 9:16 PM
There used to be a program called sub7 that would do that… you could turn on someone’s cam, microphone, etc.
You can still legally surf webcams that are already hooked up to the net… all you need to do is use a site like http://www.Web-Cam-Search.com and you can find millions of cams – some in peoples’ homes and even bedrooms.
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