{"id":41637,"date":"2013-12-19T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/did_you_know_hackers_can_hijack_a_five-year-old_macbook_camera_without_trig\/"},"modified":"2013-12-19T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T16:00:07","slug":"did_you_know_hackers_can_hijack_a_five-year-old_macbook_camera_without_trig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41637","title":{"rendered":"Did you know Hackers can hijack a five-year-old MacBook camera without triggering the warning light?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most laptops with built-in cameras have an important privacy feature \u201d\u201d a light that is supposed to turn on any time the camera is in use. But Wolf says she never saw the light on her laptop go on. As a result, she had no idea she was under surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t supposed to be possible. While controlling a camera remotely has long been a source of concern to privacy advocates, conventional wisdom said there was at least no way to deactivate the warning light. New evidence indicates otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2013\/12\/18\/research-shows-how-macbook-webcams-can-spy-on-their-users-without-warning\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most laptops with built-in cameras have an important privacy feature \u201d\u201d a light that is supposed to turn on any time the camera is in use. But Wolf says she never saw the light on her laptop go on. As<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41637\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,168,114,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}