I’m going to get pwned one of these days, considering my threshold for giving a random website access to my webcam is apparently mild curiosity and entertainment for 30s.

▲ razemio 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What would be the attack vector with indirect access to a webcam?

▲ VCFundedGenYer 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You are giving your face away, for one very obvious point.

Never give a random website access to your webcam. This is basic privacy 101.

▲ sd9 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

De-anonymisation for one.

But more generally, if I’m the sort of person who would allow this I’d probably allow some other stupid permissions if they promised me something novel on the other side.

▲ alien_hand an hour ago | parent [-]

Maybe try hiding your face below the camera and throwing your hands up in the sky so the camera only sees your hands then play/sing Metallica.

   [Chorus]
   Never cared for what they do
   Never cared for what they know
   But I know

   [Refrain]
   So close, no matter how far
   It couldn't be much more from the heart
   Forever trusting who we are
   And nothing else matters

▲ ncr100 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Palmprint?

▲ chabska 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd love if the people who put a tape over their laptop webcam could answer this.

	▲	Insimwytim 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd love if people stopped trying to pretend Snowden didn't happen.

▲ remote 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"An overdriven webcam sensor reconfigures its pixels into an AI-steered optical phased array, discharging the laptop's total electrical power as a lethal, coherent laser pulse the instant your hand moves."

Then it rendered the page load with '<html><h1>"You have been theremin ated".'