While it may seem difficult to believe that anyone would go to the trouble of hacking your webcam, you can never be too careful when it comes to your online security. However, researchers have proven that it’s perfectly possible to activate a webcam without triggering the indicator light, so you shouldn’t rely on this safety feature.

In the past, Mac users may have taken some comfort from the thought that their webcam’s indicator light will be activated whenever their webcam switches on. To make matters worse, most Macs come with a built-in webcam that you can’t disconnect or turn away from you like you can with an external webcam – so you essentially have an insecure recording device pointed straight at your face the entire time you’re sat at your computer. In reality, webcams are one of the easier things to hack, to the point where if you venture onto the darker parts of the web you’ll find ready-made software that makes it frighteningly easy to hijack someone’s webcam.

The thought that someone might be spying on you through your webcam may sound paranoid, but recent news stories have made it clear that webcam hacking is something that really does happen. Webcams are a great way of keeping in touch with friends and family, and may even come in handy for taking the occasional photo – but could someone with malicious intent be using your webcam to capture videos and images of you?

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