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Why You Need to Cover Your Webcam RIGHT NOW!

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(ANTIMEDIA) Your computer's built-in webcam is easy to take for granted if you don't use if very often. But just because you don't take advantage of this amazing piece of technology — as a woman in Toronto was recently shocked to learn — doesn't mean it isn't being used.

Chelsea Clark's night watching Netflix with her boyfriend didn't seem like anything out of the ordinary — until pictures of the couple from that evening were sent to her Facebook account by the hacker who'd taken them from her webcam.

Clark described this as "a terrifying notion. It was a really bizarre thing to receive those messages and it really took a second to be like, 'OH MY GOD, that's what this means, that's the implication of receiving this message is someone was just watching us. We obviously had no idea it was taking place at the moment, but retroactively it was like a really, really deeply creepy feeling. It was very unnerving. I mean it does feel like there's just someone in your home with you."


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