Does anyone "else" cover their web cam with Tape?

Question

"Manual" posted an interesting topic about "for the hackers". (you should read if not done so already) Which raised the question, "am I just paranoid??" I cover the Camera Lense with electrical tape when not in use, on my laptop and tablet. I was wondering if anyone else does this.......Mark Zuckerberg does. Do you?

Answer 1

hmm...

*Gets electrical tape*

*Covers camera with tape*

done!

Answer 2

I saw it in the movie "Snowden".

Answer 3

There is a good chance mark zuckerburg only did that because he has geek friends doing hacking wars. It's generally safe to say nobody will want to see through your webcam unless you give them a reason. Kind of like a tough guy on the streets wont beat you up unless you give them a reason.

Answer 4

Android is a Linux kernel, plus some basic GNU utilities, plus a completely new userspace layer on top. It doesn't use GTK, Xorg, Gnome etc so don't expect it to be able to run "Linux applications" or even Linux command-line tools. All programs running on Android need to be written for Android because it's basically completely different to your regular Linux distros.

Answer 5

terminal emulator in play store app.

Answer 6

have to get back to you on that.... good question though.

Answer 7

yea i do that to

@Manuel ive enjoyed the conversations ive come across concerning hackers on your post, i agree that hacking should be done righteously, that being said' is like to speak more on the topic but privately' is there some way we can chitchat thats not open conversation? text' email, etc???

Answer 8

Thank you guys for taking time to respond, I look forward to input from other users as well. I'm taking a poll to evaluate the level of my paranoia here so your responses are imperative!

Answer 9

paranoia? y would users get paranoid?

Answer 10

what are you up to on that Unix machine?

Answer 11

ahhh. android, what is it you want to know

Answer 12

trying to get a command prompt?

Answer 13

what device and do you have SU access?

Answer 14

You need a pc to flash the file to your device to obtain SU privileges. Will void the warranty unless you reset the flash counter.

Answer 15

@Escobar

You can message me on the app if you post on one my codes.

I will respond when I am able.

Answer 16

yeah. I had my laptop cam cover up since 2011. Mostly because i was and still am "paranoid". 😂😂😂

Answer 17

@pheonix

your familiar with shell scripting?

Answer 18

@phoenix

nah i dont have access to a windows OS right now' but i do love cmd prompt, i onky have access to my android at the moment and for the life of me im akways concerned on just what makes things tic and ive run into shelk terminal and fallen in love again, ive just come to learning of "while , if-then, for" etc. and my thirst for knowledge is raging on, however i looked in my system/bin and discovered that i dont have an expr cmd and its witholding me from operations with my variable and positional parameters, is it possibke that i can use the cat cmd to create a .sh fike that creates the expr cmd???

Answer 19

that makea sense

Answer 20

and no i havent acheived su priviledges yet, im a bit disabled with the lack of a pc to plug into and im not sure if i will be able to jump to su with the device alone, you agree?