(Poll created March 19, 2009)
Submitted by editor

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Your laptop came with a webcam and a microphone built in.

Could a government agency look through your webcam and listen to your microphone without your knowledge or consent if it is connected to the internet?

[Quote from NY Times story (see link) several weeks after this poll question was created: "It [spyware being controlled from China] can, for example, turn on the camera and audio-recording functions of an infected computer, enabling monitors to see and hear what goes on in a room. }

Only if they have a warrant
What about my GPS enabled cell phone?
Trust me, nobody wants to see me naked
It's a NY Times story so it's probably not true!
And they can remotely turn on your computer even if the power is turned off
"Our Father, which art in heaven..."
If you don't have anything to hide, this isn't a problem
who would want to see me?
Isn't watching homemade porn on govt computers illegal? Everyone get naked.
With software, anything is possible
If they are doing this, you can detect it with the hardware status monitors.
GM's Onstar advertises that they can listen in to you in your car
That's crazy talk
Let's ask Alex Jones
Did you forget to take your medication?
I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't have made that possible
They can even if it isn't connected to the internet
Big Brother is here, and I invited him in
No, the 4th amendment prohibits that
My refrigerator is spying on me, too
That's why I've taped over the webcam
OMG, that thought had never occurred to me
My computer is SO OLD it does not have those things!
Finally an audience for my one-man acrobat show!
I'm going to screw with them by mounting a mirror over my webcam
They do the same things with cell phones
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