Hackers Can Listen In on Your Skype Calls
Mark Zuckerberg covers up his laptop’s camera with a little piece of tape. After he posted a photo of himself at a desk this summer celebrating Instagram’s growing popularity, online commenters seized on the little gray strip above his laptop screen. “You Should Consider It, Too,” read a headline on The New York Times, calling Zuckerberg’s move a “basic and cheap security safeguard.”
The tape trick keeps hackers from secretly recording you through your laptop’s webcam. It essentially functions as an off button for the camera, physically preventing it from recording until you take off the tape to make a video call.
But new research suggests that hackers can eavesdrop on those video calls, too, when you think you and the person you’re talking to are the only ones on the line.
