The FBI can secretly
activate a computer’s webcam to spy on an individual without turning on the
indicator light, a former official revealed to the Washington Post in an
article published Friday.
According to the Washington Post’s account of
what Marcus Thomas — former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational
Technology Division in Quantico — said, “The FBI has been able to covertly
activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users
know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in
terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations.”
“Because of encryption
and because targets are increasingly using mobile devices, law enforcement is
realizing that more and more they’re going to have to be on the device — or in
the cloud,” Thomas added, in reference to remote storage services.
“There’s the realization out there that they’re going to have to use these
types of tools more and more.”
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