Entry # 9 - Feb 27 2014

U.K. spy agency captured private webcam chats, report says

Oscar Qi
Feb 27 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-k-spy-agency-captured-private-webcam-chats-report-says-1.2553809

The UK spy agency was capture people’s private webcam chats. They scoop sensitive images by intercept throw the webcam such as Yahoo, Facebook etc. They don’t know how many spies are doing this on people’s webcam right now, but they know the spy department had capture and intercepted 1.8 million users in 2008, and this program is  probably still working today. If this program keeps improve and develop, more and more millions of user would be spied. There are already 75 millions of users in yahoo in 2011. They could be like virus and just spy everyone. This program could find the user’s cell phone; address and Email etc. and all of those people are innocent. This program takes photos from the webcam every 5 min, and if it’s sensitive, it will be send to the spy department. The funny thing is that about 8% of images are very “undesirable nudity”.

 

In my opinion, I think this program should definitely disappear from this planet. Because might harm the users’ privacy. Imagine that if I’m webcaming someone, I’ll never want someone else that I don’t know to intercept about my chat and steal my personal useful data from it. If this spy knows me somehow, he could use my credit card without even letting me notice. Also, my Email address will expose too many things, and I have to deal with tons of garbage messages in my Email. My home address might be exposing, and someone with all my personal information can just kidnap me. Save your privacy, deny the spies.