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Note to Self

Why You Should Put a Post-It Over Your Laptop Camera

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How much would it take for someone to hack YOUR life? And really, how worried do you actually need to be? This is what happened when Fusion's Kevin Roose asked some of the best hackers in the world to have at him.

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0:00.0

He installed a program that every two minutes would take a photo of me out of my webcam

0:09.3

and email it to him.

0:11.2

And like I had no idea this was happening.

0:13.6

So I'm like picking my nose.

0:18.5

It's note to self the tech show about being human.

0:21.8

I'm a new summer od.

0:23.9

And hacking?

0:25.7

Look, it's just a fact of modern life now, right?

0:28.7

I don't want to be fear-monger about it.

0:30.8

And I'm not talking about corporate hacking like Sony or Ashley Madison.

0:34.9

And I don't mean government hacking either, like the FBI asking Apple to hack into the iPhone

0:40.5

that belonged to the San Bernardino shooter.

0:44.0

How much would it take really for someone to hack your life?

0:49.9

And how much do you really need to be worried about it?

0:53.8

This was one of the more bizarre and dangerous pieces of stunt journalism I've ever done.

1:01.2

Like I, you know, I like to-

1:03.2

I thought you're following it what it is.

1:04.7

Our new note to self-friend Kevin Russe sacrificed himself to find out just how far hackers

1:11.6

can go if they really want to.

1:14.4

If you don't know him, Kevin is the news director of Fusion.

1:18.2

He's a really well-known tech journalist.

1:20.2

He's also the co-host of Fusion's new documentary series, Real Future.

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