Your computer is spying on you and you don’t even know it.
At an old job in New York, one OZY editor and all her female colleagues covered their laptop cameras with yellow Post-its. Each had had one too many creepy experiences with an overly friendly IT guy. Call them paranoid, but maybe they were just prepared. In one study, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found:
Less than %5 of people knew when their computer is recording them
Rebecca Portnoff, the lead researcher, happened across some Web forums that discussed things like webcam hijacking. “Obviously creeped out,” she wanted to figure out a defense for the public. She and the other researchers had 98 people sit at a computer and perform two tasks — one computer-based, the other paper-based. During the session,
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