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Covering your webcam won’t be sufficient to prevent hackers from watching you
That tape over your webcam might not be enough -- the hackers are watching; it might be the right time to install another privacy shutter.
In a report just published in Science Advances, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT) emphasized the risks to imaging privacy that ambient light sensors can offer. The ambient light sensor on this relatively dated and huge (17.3-inch) consumer tablet is located close to the front-facing (selfie) camera — which is still a pretty popular arrangement. However, prior research has demonstrated that in roughly 80% of cases — even a basic sensor can yield sufficient information to deduce keystrokes from a keyboard and steal a device’s authorizations and passwords.
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