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How ratters hack into web cams to spy on your most intimate moments
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Mar 15, 2013
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How ratters hack into web cams to spy on your most intimate moments
Take a look at the laptop or computer screen that's closest to you and you may see a little camera. As it turns out, hacking that little camera and viewing your entire life isn't that hard. We’ll talk with Nate Anderson from Ars Technica.
Watching a woman in Malaysia. Note RAT control center running in background.
Watching a woman in Malaysia. Note RAT control center running in background.
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Take a look at the laptop or computer screen that's closest to you and you may see a little camera. As it turns out, hacking that little camera and viewing your entire life isn't that hard. We’ll talk with Nate Anderson from Ars Technica.

If you have a laptop or monitor nearby you may notice a little camera. All of those nights you thought you were alone, someone could steal access to that camera and use it as their port hole into your life. And it's actually not all that hard to do.

Nate Anderson has been covering this for Ars Technica.