Cassie, Musings of a Cheshire Tart

Ever since laptops have been manufactured with built in webcams I have fallen back on my trusty friend Blu-tack, incidentally I use the white version, so I should probably be calling it whit-tack.

Before I witter on about the virtues and multifarious uses of blu-tack, I’ll maybe save that for another post, back to my webcam.

So what am I doing? I have made a little rectangle of blu-tack and stuck it over the lens of the web cam.

Why? Well I am concerned that someone could hack into my computer and observe me remotely without my knowledge.

Paranoid nonsense?

Well maybe and I know that just because I have read books and seen TV shows using this kind of invasion of privacy in their story line, doesn’t mean it happens in real life and that anyone using that kind of technology would find a more interesting target than me, but I can’t help feeling uncomfortable with that little black eye staring at me and wondering if somewhere someone is looking back at me.

My understanding of the internet and associated technologies is pretty poor, ok, I know its not magic and everything has a logical explanation, ie a program behind it and though I have the intelligence to work it out, I don’t really want to know.

It’s like with cars, I am lost without one and I think am a good driver, but my understanding is limited and as long as it goes from A to B and there are people that know how to fix any problems I have no motivation to learn more about the workings of a car.

So in the absence of being able to work out if I am being watched and how to technically prevent it, I resort to the low tech, low cost solution of white blu-tack.

Peace of mind is a wonderful thing.