"Peekaboo!"
Posted on 08/07/2008 1:34:05 PM PDT by Schnucki
Marisel Garcia is one of eight or nine women in the Gainesville, Florida who is a victim of a Webcam Spy Hacker voyeurism scandal, orchestrated by Craig Feigin.
Craig Feigin, a computer programmer, worked on Marisel Garcia's computer to fix her laptop. When she got her machine back from Feigin, it had a slew of other problems so she brought it to another area repair man. One of the new problems was that the computer's built-in camera light came on every time she was near the machine.
When Marisel Garcia got her computer back, she learned that Craig Feigin had installed a program called Webcam Spy Hacker that was using her computer's camera to take pictures of her and send them to a Web server. Apparently Feigin had 20,000 photos of Garcia and her friends, in some of which Garcia was not fully clothed.
Craig Feigin was arrested and held on $20,000 bail after he admitted to rigging Marisel Garcia's computer, and other women's computers, with Webcam Spy Hacker. Under Florida law, he could be charged with a felony and face jail time.
Priceless.....creative as well.
You don’t have to install spyware on someone’s computer to hack their webcam, you can do it legally at a site like http://www.Web-Cam-Search.com
Fox news had a segment on it too at http://www.webcam-search.net I think.
Saw it on slashdot too. One word, prison.
Peeping tom goes high tech - it’s the new millenium version of the mirror on the shoe. What a scumbag.
"Peekaboo!"
I recall either a thread on FR or an online article about potential spying, although it may have been some other webcam application. These applications are intended as security against unintended use or theft of a computer, but are turned into spy machines. Well, I guess we have an example of the latter...
We’ve got bush! We’ve got bush!!
I will not adjudicate this until I see a [clothed] picture of Marisel Garcia.
Ahhh - memories. I saw that movie when I was in Tech School learning to be a jet engine mechanic up in Illinois.
It’s a shame that a few incompetent sleaze-balls like that give all of us competent ones a bad name.
Asshat.
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