UK Spying on various Camera feeds

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UK spies on MILLIONS of Yahoo! webcams, ogles sex vids - report
Perfectly legal for us to watch your unencrypted steamy cam sessions, sniffs GCHQ

"The UK intelligence agency GCHQ started slurping photos from innocent netizens' camera feeds in 2008, The Guardian reported today. In just one six-month period alone, pics from 1.8 million Yahoo! users were pulled into government servers.

Blighty's hush-hush nerve-center was also said to have explored the possibility of intercepting footage from the Kinect camera for Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console as it generated "fairly normal webcam traffic."

Scary.
 
Shifty's Bitch said:
Not sure whether anyone posted this already but...

UK spies on MILLIONS of Yahoo! webcams, ogles sex vids - report
Perfectly legal for us to watch your unencrypted steamy cam sessions, sniffs GCHQ

"The UK intelligence agency GCHQ started slurping photos from innocent netizens' camera feeds in 2008, The Guardian reported today. In just one six-month period alone, pics from 1.8 million Yahoo! users were pulled into government servers.

Blighty's hush-hush nerve-center was also said to have explored the possibility of intercepting footage from the Kinect camera for Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console as it generated "fairly normal webcam traffic."

Scary.
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Licence to spy. So the British spies actually exist...they aren't a mythical creature.

wco81, according to a news from Eurogamer, Microsoft said that they have been working on the encryption of their services after the recent events.
 
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Cyan said:
Licence to spy. So the British spies actually exist...they aren't a mythical creature.
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Yup they exist alright! I was at GCHQ last year for a couple of job interviews. It's an interesting place to say the least.

Afaik the camera feed from kinnect is compressed but not encrypted much like the majority of FOSCAM etc cameras that you find in peoples homes. I am always amazed by people who buy things like this and install them in their kids rooms to keep an eye on them and never check to see if the camera publically broadcasts by default.
 
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