> From: Chance Reecher <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Hidden Remote Webcam activation is it in Firmware, HD, or PRAM?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 6:42 PM
> Dude, you're unbelievably paranoid.
> It's not hidden in firmware, or in a special section of
> the HD. It's in the OS, most likely hidden but in the
> same area as the rest of the OS. Initialization would
> destroy it. Besides, it's only going to be installed on the
> computer if it was issued to you by someone with a reason to
> remotely activate the webcam.
As is sometimes true with a public posting, too much info and it does not get
posted, too little and the reasons are not understood. At the very least, this
is not a discussion about "how much I like my Mac" that was posted last week!!!!
I and some friends refurb Macs and give to poor. Now, what could happen if some
perv donated a box to us and we cleaned it up and gave it to a family with
young children or young adults who put it in their bedrooms or wherever?
But we did not know that hidden in the various parts of the box was a spy just
ready to peek!
With the current level of hysteria and a good leak of some pictures on Myspace
as a joke, we would have unknowingly been put at risk and exposed as a problem
not a solution.
So, you see, I am not at all a young "Dude, you're unbelievably paranoid"
or whatever kind of guy, just conducting an informal search for answers to
"what ifs" that we need to know, just in case.
I hope you now have a better understanding of my motives and by the way, thanks
for all the "good answers" posted.
jml
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