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Show HN: Password Protect Your Webcam

11 pointsby loupereiraover 10 years ago

8 comments

DanBCover 10 years ago
The banner across the top provides some strongly negative feelings. Awards and ratings are often meaningless.<p>The shield logo confused me. I thought it was for some other company but was missing some text - &quot;approved by CORP&quot; perhaps. So I web-searched it, and it&#x27;s your logo.<p>The claims range from nonsensical to deliberate lies.<p>&gt; Blocks government agencies<p>This is a remarkable claim! If a well funded government agency is targetting me are you really saying that your software will prevent them getting access to the microphone?<p>The footer text makes me trust the product even less.<p>I&#x27;m genuinely confused about this: what the fuck is going on? It feels like a mishmash of stuff. I&#x27;d be interested to know how many customers you get.
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The_Spongeover 10 years ago
&quot;Completely prevents the NSA or hackers from monitoring&quot; That is an insane claim.
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iancarrollover 10 years ago
Very suspicious: - All of your logos are fake at the top. (GeoTrust != Symantec, that seal was taken offline a year ago and is clickable) - Pretty obvious you bought the Facebook likes - Download is probably a virus, I&#x27;ll check once I&#x27;m off my phone.
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Lukas_Skywalkerover 10 years ago
The website advertises that it &quot;Block[s] access with parental controls and signal jamming&quot;. How the hell is this supposed to work? Very, very suspicious.
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chmarsover 10 years ago
Relax, the site is obviously meant to be a joke on a real issue …<p>Although webcam blocking is relatively easy with stickers etc. Microphone blocking on the other hand without disabling a microphone is tricky to impossible … and all other sensors are usually impossible to block.
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pwenzelover 10 years ago
Mac users can make use of the EFF&#x27;s laptop camera cover set. <a href="https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supporters.eff.org&#x2F;shop&#x2F;laptop-camera-cover-set</a>
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walterbellover 10 years ago
How would this protect against a rootkit?
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reustleover 10 years ago
This feels like making money off of FUD
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