Yeah, good point. But the same thing could be said for my job, where I have access to sensitive patient information. I still cover the webcam. I make sure I lock my computer whenever I’m not sitting in front of it, and I don’t need the webcam for anything. So I see it more as an intrusion than a potential alibi.
What you do to your own computer at home is your private business.
What the Feds do is my business.
If I own a private company and you are my employee using my computer, then I would object to you thinking you had a right to alter my equipment in that way.
I don’t need the webcam for anything.
Agreed, but the point is not what you need, it is what the company/boss wants.
I know I am drifting far past what the situation in your office might be regarding security, but many people work at jobs where there are security cameras pointed right at them (Banks, for instance). Do you think it is OK for them to put tape over the lenses of the cameras ?
Or maybe it would be fairer for me to ask it this way... If you boss said that the cameras on the computers you use at work would be ON while you were using them (as a security precaution) would you still cover the lens ?
True. And that's the gist of Comey's response.
However, as a federal employee using taxpayer funded equipment, it should be the other way around. Especially since whenever one of them gets caught misusing their computer, they claim it was 'someone else'.