To the director of the FBI covers the camera of your computer – Milenio.com

Place a sticky note, a piece of duct tape or simply cover with a piece of paper the camera of the computer can be seen as a measure of an extreme view of the possibility of being monitored by hackers, but not to the FBI director, James Comey.

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During a lecture he gave at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, for its acronym in English), the leader of one of the research agencies, the world’s most renowned admitted that, although it is make fun of him, is one that puts tape on your web camera.

"I Think that people should be responsible for their own safety and there are some sensible things that they should do, and that (put tape over the webcam) is one of them," said Comey during his participation in a conference on the internet of things.

he Went on to explain that the cover web cameras is a common practice in the FBI and even the government offices of the united States, where, I assure you, every camera is covered with something.

"you Do that so that people who do not have an authorization, don’t look at it. I think that is a good measure."

Comey is not the only one who uses this method home in order to evade the hackers. A few months ago, a photograph of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, caused a stir because it left to see that both the camera and the microphone of the personal computer used, were covered with quotes to isolate.

The cover cameras or microphones does not guarantee that your computer will not be vulnerable to hackers; they simply will not give you access to your camera and you can see what you’re doing to subsequently publish it on the internet.

In recent years, there has been reported incidents of baby monitors that were hacked, allowing cybercriminals to publish on the internet the videos of little sleeping or playing. Others, have posted hours of video streaming that obtained when activating the camera of hundreds of computers without their owners knowing about it.

To avoid this type of interference, it is necessary to run constantly the antivirus of your computer and do not download suspicious files, as many times they infect your computer with a spyware that gives you total control of your computer to the attacker.

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