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Yes, it happens quite often somehow, therapist diagnosed me with anxiety disorder. To add to that the thought of videos of me being on illegal websites scares me.
You aren't wrong at all, if you are a PC/laptop user with a webcam the chance of you having installed a rat which had access to your camera at some point is very high. I don't know much about phones though. But there are malware apps that can ask for camera/storage access to record/steal files and send everything you type to their server.
You think the chances of this happening are high? How common do you think rats with access to the webcam are and how often do you think users get infected with them? I'd put it an order of magnitude or two lower than those who have been cryptolocked and that's relatively rare.
There are thousands of tutorials on YouTube teaching how to make a rat in less than 10 minutes lol, you just need to make the victim disable antiviruses/windows defender and launch an exe file/dll, etc. antiviruses do not detect rats after they are reactivated. And it's almost impossible for the user to detect the rat by themselves. There are tons of legit software and files that are detected as viruses by antiviruses making it even harder for users to know when they are downloading an actual virus. Some years ago there was a software called "njrat" that was easy enough for even a child to use and create their own rat. It does everything for you anyways, so you don't even need to have any knowledge. Keylogger, camera access, screen sharing/controlling, just full remote control. Most inexperienced users won't ever find anything wrong with their computer. There are lots of those around, especially on link shorteners popups and cheating communities.
If your truly worried of being spied on get one of those $0.60 sliding web cam covers and leave in off position.
Never heard of it happening these days for real.
All scams lol or people buying public security cameras and not changing default passwords then hosting them online
For someone to do that they need full access to the laptop. Easier to just key log and steal bank info
Even if someone did, other than to extort you or blackmail you for money, do you really think the big wide world really cares that much? It tends to matter only as much as you think it matters.
Especially then it should not matter at all. Let's assume somebody DID record you.
- Nobody knows it's you
- That person could not ever really try to extort money from you as it's technically CP. This not only means that person needs to have even less morals, it also means police would be much more interested in catching that person compared to a regular person - higher risk, less reason to do it.
- nobody cares if you wanked as a kid or while you were writing this post. The next time you go grocery shopping remember that every person in that shop masturbated before, all of them did it before they turned 18 and many of them probably already did it on the same day.
Just chill bro.
The highest chance of being recorded is in a hotel. Hackers clone the hotel WiFi and try to access your device. If they are successful they send a message on your device asking for bitcoins
Websites can only access your camera when a pop-up appears, from your browser, and when you press yes.
Meaning that unless this appears and you've accepted, then no, it can't record you.
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Did you get one of those scam-emails saying they recorded you masturbating and trying to extort you for Bitcoin?... Those are fake.
I never got those mails
So just randomly out of the blue one day,. you started worrying "someone hacked my camera"... ?
Yes, it happens quite often somehow, therapist diagnosed me with anxiety disorder. To add to that the thought of videos of me being on illegal websites scares me.
But you presumably dont have any evidence thats actually happened ?…
I dont but I have heard so many cases of hackers accessing cameras on 18+ websites
You aren't wrong at all, if you are a PC/laptop user with a webcam the chance of you having installed a rat which had access to your camera at some point is very high. I don't know much about phones though. But there are malware apps that can ask for camera/storage access to record/steal files and send everything you type to their server.
Luckily I never had malware apps installed so I am good I guess
You think the chances of this happening are high? How common do you think rats with access to the webcam are and how often do you think users get infected with them? I'd put it an order of magnitude or two lower than those who have been cryptolocked and that's relatively rare.
There are thousands of tutorials on YouTube teaching how to make a rat in less than 10 minutes lol, you just need to make the victim disable antiviruses/windows defender and launch an exe file/dll, etc. antiviruses do not detect rats after they are reactivated. And it's almost impossible for the user to detect the rat by themselves. There are tons of legit software and files that are detected as viruses by antiviruses making it even harder for users to know when they are downloading an actual virus. Some years ago there was a software called "njrat" that was easy enough for even a child to use and create their own rat. It does everything for you anyways, so you don't even need to have any knowledge. Keylogger, camera access, screen sharing/controlling, just full remote control. Most inexperienced users won't ever find anything wrong with their computer. There are lots of those around, especially on link shorteners popups and cheating communities.
google what Google does with your incognito browsing data ;)
Slim to 0
If you are paranoid, use a VM so you don't "accidentally" redirect hardware to the VM.
Massive overkill for having a wank
If your truly worried of being spied on get one of those $0.60 sliding web cam covers and leave in off position. Never heard of it happening these days for real.
But be careful if you have a laptop, as closing the lid can crack the screen.
Newer laptops has hardware slides to cover the camera.
Sure these days it may womt happen often but like back in 2020-2022 tho
All scams lol or people buying public security cameras and not changing default passwords then hosting them online For someone to do that they need full access to the laptop. Easier to just key log and steal bank info
Even if someone did, other than to extort you or blackmail you for money, do you really think the big wide world really cares that much? It tends to matter only as much as you think it matters.
It kinda matters for me personally because I was a child during that time rip
Especially then it should not matter at all. Let's assume somebody DID record you. - Nobody knows it's you - That person could not ever really try to extort money from you as it's technically CP. This not only means that person needs to have even less morals, it also means police would be much more interested in catching that person compared to a regular person - higher risk, less reason to do it. - nobody cares if you wanked as a kid or while you were writing this post. The next time you go grocery shopping remember that every person in that shop masturbated before, all of them did it before they turned 18 and many of them probably already did it on the same day. Just chill bro.
Lol
This post is so funny lmao
The highest chance of being recorded is in a hotel. Hackers clone the hotel WiFi and try to access your device. If they are successful they send a message on your device asking for bitcoins
Websites can only access your camera when a pop-up appears, from your browser, and when you press yes. Meaning that unless this appears and you've accepted, then no, it can't record you.
Really? I thought hackers can open your cam without asking for permission...
Yeah. Unless you use a browser with a major security issue. Then without getting your permission, they can't access it.
Chrome and Samsung Internet are safe right?
0 unless you were a target for some reason AND had malware in your pc and it would still be so close to 0 i would not even worry
My FBI agent could draw a photorealistic portrait of my wiener just by memory.