Freemor at
If tape is your answer to computer security, you're doing it wrong!
Removing/Blacklisting the drivers would be better.
Better yet is running as a non admin user. (which almost no Windows users even though it is quite easy). (and disabling WSH and setting %temp% as non-executable, etc.. though these are a bit more arcane)
All the tape does is limit when they can use the camera/mic as I assume people are taping because they intend to use it at some point.
Meanwhile they can keylog all your passwords, etc. etc, etc.
To me it smacks of closing the barn door after the horses are gone.
I do get that there would be the minor advantage of it preventing recording as soon as the infection happened but I fear that too many people will see this and think it is a good answer instead of a desperate last resort.
and yes i kinda ignored your use of "cromulent" there..
But I really, Really want people not to rely on this. (although I'm preaching to the converted here on pump.io). Too often I've seen people glom on to "magic hand waving" like this when it comes to their computers.
I thought this post was about tape backups. I use the EFF stickers.
Kete Foy at 2016-06-25T03:48:03Z
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