Is company laptop filming me secretly?

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eem2am

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hello,

Is there any way i can examine my company Laptop to see if it is "secretly" filming me when i am at home ? (it has a camera eye in the fold-up cover).



I use the company lap top when at home....but it is not networked when i am at home.......however, it is connected to a network when i am at work...and indeed it is also connected to the internet when i am at work......(other people at work might be using my laptop when i am not at my desk, i am not sure).....in any case, this laptop that i now use used to belong to another guy at work , who now has a new laptop.

Its just that people at work, who have never been to my apartment, have commented that they know i sleep on the floor.........how could they know this?....unless they have filmed me ?......i have just recently moved in and have not yet got a bed.....but how could they know this?....is there any way i can examine the laptop to see if its secretly being used to film me when i am at home?
 
that would be scary but has happened before. Likely against company policy and against the law at least in the states. Best bet, piece of tape on the camera. could look at resources and system tray. check the task manager. Easier to cover it up though. yes i would be pissed if true.
 
Just place some tape over the cameras small lens, it's at the top of your laptops screen when not wanting it to see you.;)
 
It's entirely possible, but I kind of doubt it. Ever since that school system was found to be doing that with student laptops I believe more and more protective lawsuits have come up that make this a bit harder to do without serious consequences.

As flanker said, just put some tape over it if you're paranoid about it.
 
It could be an interesting legal issue. Who could have a reasonable expectation of privacy with the company's camera in the room! Is it an extension of their office just like their delivery van?

Don't forget to tape the microphone to dull the heavy breathing. I gather it's quite easy for the camera to be hacked too.

You can forget privacy issues. Nobody cares these days. If someone can get dirt on you, it's either blackmail, laughing stock at work or today's hit on YouTube.

I would be more concerned having a company cellphone with camera. You are out of the office on business and you do some "private business". The phone rings and it could be your boss who expects to be able to see you and where you are. The "broken camera" will be as good an excuse as "I forgot the film".
 
^^ Read the OP guys!! He is not connected to a network at home! So how would this be possible? It's not, simple as that. If he was connected to the net at home then, it would be.
 
G25r8cer said:
^^ Read the OP guys!! He is not connected to a network at home! So how would this be possible? It's not, simple as that. If he was connected to the net at home then, it would be.
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True, it records on the hdd instead, no hacking needed and downloads at work. For periodic still frames you wouldn't even notice the hdd light.
 
What Nanobyte just said is what worries me most.........they may have some 'secret' code running on the laptop....which takes periodic pictures , and stores them somewhere on the laptop, then when i go to work and hook up to the company intranet, they downlaod the images, again in secret.

i am wondering how easy this is to do?....could they feasibly have done it?

This is very embarassing, since the laptop is almost always on when i am at home, and is on a table which overlooks virtually the entire apartment..................

If their is nobody else in and i don't bother locking the latrine door....etc etc...you know what i mean.......they will have seen virtually everything that i do in the apartment....over the last 3 months, since i have been using this laptop at home.

somebody at work suddenly started talking about a film, for some unknown reason................the film that they suddenly started talking about was "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford................its the only film i have had playing in my apartment in the last 6 months.
-they couldnt possibly have known, unless that laptop was filming me.


i think that either management are doing it, to see if i am at the computer working, or some other work colleague has done it for a laugh.
 
It's not that likely but I suppose it depends on what sort of people you work with. As others have said, it's not difficult to cover up the camera. Whether it was a work laptop or not, I would cover the camera anyway unless I was using it. A quick search of the Internet shows that some people are looking for ways to hack cameras (whether wireless or wired). Who knows if hacked visual surveillance as shown on TV shows like NCIS is fiction or reality.

Any time you let someone into your home or workspace, it's easy for them to install a wireless camera. They are so small and easy to hide. People have no scruples today.
 
Hi,

Do you know where-abouts in the computer they may be storing the images?

...will it likely be in the "program files" folder for example?

..or in the "windows" folder, say?
 
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