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Put A Post-It Over Your Webcam Lens
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Is your computer watching you? Here are two stories about just that: In the first, a couple is suing an appliance-rental chain franchisee for renting them a computer with spy camera software secretly installed. The chain says it's the franchisee's problem, the franchisee blames the vendor it used, and the vendor asks what the problem is, since it's there, they say, so that they can track it if the renter doesn't pay. In the other story, a computer repairman has been arrested for allegedly planting spyware on customers' computers he fixed so he could look at women naked. And to make sure, he advised them to take the computer into the bathroom when they showered to "get the sensor moist." I'll bet it was. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Los Angeles Times)
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