Do you cover your smartphone's front camera?

Most, if not all, of us cover our laptop's camera. But, do you do the same with your smartphone?

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I don't cover my laptop's camera... If someone catches a glimpse of this wonderful human specimen gratz to them. I think it's a little weird to cover it

what are you hiding?

MTciscoguy

I don't cover my laptop camera, but my wife covers hers, as far as the phone, don't have a front camera on it, so nope.

DevilWAH

I don't cover any of my cameras, simple reason there is a slim chance of some one seeing whats going on, as I insure it is turned off when not using it and I from experience I know the number of compromised systems is very low so I don't worry to much about some "hacker" spying on me.

And second even if there was all there going to see is my ugly mug and if they want to watch that then let them! id more more worried about the info on my devices than people looking though the camera.

Cyberscum

I would be honored if someone wanted to see me naked....So no, I don't.

DevilWAH

Cyberscum wrote: »

I would be honored if someone wanted to see me naked....So no, I don't.

I know what I am up to tonight

networker050184

I don't cover any cameras. Never been the paranoid type.

Cyberscum

DevilWAH wrote: »

I know what I am up to tonight

Ill wear my best outfit

Unfortunately for you though, I do not have a smartphone. I just couldn't justify $150-200 monthly bills anymore

kohr-ah

Nope.

Let them see my beautiful ripped geeky form.. Crouched over in a chair staring at my screen going "WTF would they do that?"

yzT

I really can't believe what I'm reading LOL

tmcg

After watching citizenfour last night, I now realise anything is possible...

Jasiono

tmcg wrote: »

After watching citizenfour last night, I now realise anything is possible...

Someone keeps telling me to watch this but I always forget to. Is it good?

tmcg

Yeah it's very good, definitely worth a watch.

tpatt100

I don't cover mine because I don't look at pron because it's morally corrupt and it kills kittens.

NetworkNewb

tpatt100 wrote: »

I don't cover mine because I don't look at pron because it's morally corrupt and it kills kittens.

Don't forget about the people who have passed away looking down and watching you.... I can just see my grandma looking down at me, talking to another person up in heaven. "And there is my grandchild right down there... Oh my, nevermind, that must not be him. Not sure where he is." Talk about an awkward situation!

cyberguypr

The only thing I cover is myself, so people don't throw things at me when I go outside.

jibbajabba

tpatt100 wrote: »

I don't cover mine because I don't look at pron because it's morally corrupt and it kills kittens.

Surely people won't be able to see what you are looking at, just what you do in front of it. So if you want pron, maybe your thing is to bake a cake ?

Either way, I only disabled my laptop camera in the devicemanager because Lync / Skype is used for work and the damn thing switched itself on a few times - no matter what I have configured in the settings.

And phone ? Most of time people would see the insight of my pocket - by no means - knock yourself out

cyberguypr wrote: »

The only thing I cover is myself, so people don't throw things at me when I go outside.

While that is probably the legal way of going outside - it sure is a boring way

Jon_Cisco

When I bought a windows 8 laptop it snapped a picture of me and placed in on the photos tile.
Not something I requested it to do. So I disabled the camera and covered it since I don't use it.

yzT

just a reminder... this is about smartphones not laptops

tmcg

This thread is awesome! Some of the replies are priceless lol

kohr-ah

yzT wrote: »

just a reminder... this is about smartphones not laptops

I stand by my original statement

wd40

I think you should consider covering the back camera too, some older phones have covers to close the camera .. to protect the lens.

Personally I do not cover my phones camera, and I do not have a webcam attached to my home PC.
But I do cover the camera of my work laptop when at home ..

MTciscoguy

yzT wrote: »

just a reminder... this is about smartphones not laptops

There have been far more laptop cameras hijacked than smart phones or tablets. But in some instances, you are at risk.

yzT

Could you fill this survey? Basically it's the same question as well as asking for laptops.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bHBMCWSBD2ARFzjZWFoRzMGhZ-ESbCFu8hFrwHx6-t4/viewform?usp=send_form

edit: if you voted before this edit, check the survey again. I got feedback that it would be nice to have a section to argument your decision, so I did add it. It's optional, though.

Snow.bros

When I got my first laptop used to be paranoid and thought for some reason someone is watching me even when the laptop was offline I realized I was being paranoid and just stopped having some stupid thoughts.

This is how my colleague recovered a stolen mac laptop from a thieve who skipped the country with the stolen laptop, he managed to log on remotely to that mac laptop and took a pic of that thieve while he was busy working on it using the agent that was installed inside that laptop, basically he took enough proof of that thieve and track to have the police walk in on him while busy working on that laptop.

GreaterNinja

My mom covers her web camera and the camera on the laptops/netbooks. I've also seen that its typically older women 50+ at work that cover the camera. Usually people will tape a piece of paper over the camera.

cyberguypr

Great observation. During my help desk years I would say at least 70% of the ones covering cams were older women.

varelg

Not covering anything. Laptop camera is never covered, smartphone camera doesn't have to be- the phone is either in the pocket most of the time or in the car's glove compartment.

alan2308

No. If you really want to see what the inside of my pocket looks like, be my guest.

kohr-ah

alan2308 wrote: »

No. If you really want to see what the inside of my pocket looks like, be my guest.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

yzT

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bHBMCWSBD2ARFzjZWFoRzMGhZ-ESbCFu8hFrwHx6-t4/viewform?usp=send_form

is there anyone who didn't vote and want to? Need 7 more votes to round up to 100 votes and close it.