It is technically possible for someone like the NSA or a computer criminal to install malware on a laptop and operate the camera without your knowledge. There have been some demonstrations of ways to operate the webcam surreptitiously without activating the warning light, at least on some laptops (cite). So… if you are worried about the NSA or anyone else spying on you through your webcam, you might want to physically block the camera.
This is not to say whether or not it’s reasonable to be worried about the NSA watching you through your webcam, only that it’s possible for them to do so if they really put their mind to it.
Now, the average Ron Paul supporter is probably not the target of that kind of surveillance, and a piece of electrical tape is a dandy way to counteract it anyway. But, anyway, in the service of being informative, there you go.
And while “liberals do it to” might be tempting to say since we’re all human, there’s this:
The ultimate conclusion to this is very pessimistic. If a very large portion of our population cannot deal with reality, we’re in deep doo doo in an increasingly complex world.
I rather doubt this is just an American problem. It might explain why conservatives in Israel no longer see the seemingly reasonable idea of a two state solution as impossible, and the anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe.
Of course only America has to deal with Faux News which has been polluting the political landscape here for a significantly long period now.
If they also included language preventing welfare recipients from giving money to a church or a minister I might be more willing to support this. Isn’t that a sort-of government subsidy to religion?
Is Rand Paul advocating we illegally sell weapons to Iran?
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I envision a national defense that promotes, as Reagan put it, ‘peace through strength’.
I believe in applying Ronald Reagan’s approach to foreign policy to the Iran issue. Successful negotiations with untrustworthy adversaries are only achieved from a position of strength.
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I think the last thing Republican’s should be mentioning when it concerns Iran is Reagan policy. How Iran was ‘handled’ under the Reagan administration doesn’t exactly inspire successful or trustworthy negotiations.