Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Spyware

1. What you know about the topic before your research: 
- A kind of virus
- It can be installed by opening a link, video, or any other thing sent by an unknown user.
- They can watch EVERY move you do, as long as the camera can see you.

2. What you wonder or questions you have about the topic before researching: 
- How do people get into your webcam to spy you?
- How can people not turn on the mac green light when they're spying you by that same camera?
- How to detect spy cameras on your computer?

3. Links to where you found the most useful information:
How do people get into your webcam to spy you
- How to detect spy cameras on your computer
- How can people not turn on the mac green light when they're spying you by that same camera

4. Bullet list of things you learned about the topic:
- It is extremely easy to hack a webcam.
- A security camera man from Today News, hacked into a girl's camera in 3 minutes.
- When a person is spying on you with your computer camera, the person can disable the camera light so you don't notice.
- There is a software to prevent people from spying on you with your computer camera.
- Even if your computer is in mode "sleep" the person can still see you.
- If the person is spying on you, the only way it stops is if you close your computer.

5. A short summary of how this topic connects/relates to you or your life: 
- This topic relates to my life because I am always using my computer, and using links my friends send me, and looking at videos and pictures. This can happen to any person. The scary thing is that people don't notice they are being spied on. This scares me because I always have my computer open, and I'm always on it.

6. Questions you still have:
- Does the anti-spy software completely delete the chance of you getting hacked?

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