[tor-talk] Cameras

Flipchan flipchan at riseup.net
Tue Nov 22 09:18:54 UTC 2016


Cool, thanks :)

Ben Tasker <ben at bentasker.co.uk> skrev: (22 november 2016 09:55:03 CET)
>The problem with blocking the camera in software is that it can then be
>unblocked in software (and still potentially without your permission).
>
>There have been examples in the past where others have been able to
>change
>behaviour so that the camera's light doesn't come on to warn the user
>that
>it's recording.
>
>In the absence of being able to disconnect the camera, the only way to
>be
>certain is to physically obstruct the lens, hence the stickers.
>
>But, if you want to find out which process is using the camera
>(assuming
>it's using v4l), you can do something along the lines of
>
>fuser /dev/video0
>
>Which should give you the pid of whatever process is using it.
>
>
>On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Flipchan <flipchan at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> I have been searching around and cant seem to find any code for
>blocking
>> access to the Camera on a computer.
>> I think this is weird because i can find alot of people that sell
>stickers
>> that You put in front of ur laptop Camera. I think a logical way
>would be
>> to chmod the Camera to only be able to run by root or some user or
>> something simular, does anyone know if there is any program or code
>that
>> blocks the Camera or tells which process is useing it.
>>
>> Take Care //Flipchan
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