Mine is. I have a Windows 7 Dell Latitude E6xxx and keep a piece of blue masking tape with another smaller piece facing non-sticky side out over the lens. I only take it off if I am in a web meeting. I thought I was the only crazy person to do this and was surprised to see that others did it, too.

I work in an environment populated by extremely technically savvy people. At the office the other day I noticed that every one of them had something over their camera! A couple had an additional piece of tape over the mic hole. One guy has a short dummy plug that he keeps in the mic jack to disable the mic.

Are you similarly paranoid? Are you confident that your camera cannot be turned on remotely? What makes you so sure?
Is there way to be confident that your PC is not recording and sending pictures of you right now?

Topics: privacy, spyware, remote desktop, computer security, web cam, computer control, TightVNC