[ExI] nick's book being sold by fox news

[BillK]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:05 PM, spike  wrote:
> Ja, and consider further that camera example.  My bride loaded this
> software, and it went thru the photos and found those it thinks is us.  We
> trained it a bit by identifying the errors, so it could eliminate those.  OK
> so now this computer has access to the internet, it knows exactly how each
> of the most common people in our photo album looks and it knows who we are.
> It can phone home any time; I wouldn't know, and I wouldn't know the use
> they are finding for that info.
>
> I also have a camera on the front of my PC, and I am told it can be remotely
> activated.
>
> I am an openness sort, so I am mostly OK with that, but for privacy sorts,
> that whole notion must give them the creeby jeebies.
>

You might be surprised at how many people in computer security have a
bit of tape stuck over the camera on their laptop. ;)
(Phones and tablets as well).

BillK