[liberationtech] Amazing New Privacy Product for Webcams

[Rayzer Raygun]

On 3/2/2014 12:13 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote:
> Isn't it reasonable to assume that EVERYBODY IS BEING OR IS BOUND TO
> BE SPIED ON in the Internet?
The first time my Tandy Color Computer 3's 512K floppy drive spun up
when I was playing around with a port of Gopher at a local early
internet provider's site, yet I hadn't requested a file, I yanked the
phone cord out of that 1200 baud modem.

I've always assumed anything I ever put on the internet, no matter
encrypted or not, was viewable by the US government IF they thought it
was worth their time and computing resources. Eventualy those resources
became more 'crowd-sourced' globally among nations friendly to the US as
the NSA's collusion with British GCHQ and other agencies in Europe
shows. (including Russia btw..To have been a fly on the wall during
Obama's phone calls with Putin in the wake of the Boston Marathon
bombing sitrepping what Putin knew about Chechen nationalist in this
country)

> Shouldn't we just assume that, and move on to other, more interesting, things?

Actually, I though the post sort of funny, and perhaps points out that all the 'bright ideas' in computer technology today tend to be Steve 'Jobsian' marketing smoke/mirrors more than technological innovations.  That topic interest me.
 
Ray






> ("no puedo luchar estoy cansada, si dejo de luchar es cobardía, traigo
> mi corazón despedazado por conseguir tu amor querida mía!")
>
> IMNSHO, iT is very silly to think that a ragtag global
> crypto-activists would have EVEN THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE to beat the NSA,
> ETC.
>
> And, in the meantime, this list, as probably so many others, have been
> hijacked by the Cryptopic! NOT FARKING FAIR!!!
>
> Where's the list moderator when it comes to this kind of pattern?
>
> Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,
>
> Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes
> <alps at acm.org>
> +1 (817) 271-9619
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Seth David Schoen <schoen at eff.org> wrote:
>> Guido Witmond writes:
>>
>>> Blocking a camera (and muting it's microphone) are wise things to do,
>>> but here Yahoo had 'forgotten' to implement end-to-end encryption.
>> ... or even client-server encryption between the user and Yahoo.
>>
>> (Disclosure: my employer has a competing webcam privacy tool.)
>>
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