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is someone watching you through your
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webcam without you even realizing
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maybe Dave Taylor here and I want to
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talk about security now I'm not talking
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about Basics like have a good password
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I'm talking about the webcam that's on
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your laptop Mac or PC you've got a
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little camera sitting right there at the
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top of your screen and you might think
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oh well there's no way anyone's going to
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be able to sneak onto my computer and
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monitor that right plus I got a little
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tiny light and the light will go on
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every time someone accesses it
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right not so much and turns out there
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are thousands and thousands of laptops
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out there in the wild where hackers have
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actually gotten software onto those
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computers and are able to monitor it any
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time or live stream anything off the
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camera now that's not okay and it's
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certainly not okay with me but what I
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don't want do is I don't want to have
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this clumsy solution of I'll just put a
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sticker or a piece of tape over it a it
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doesn't look professional and B when I
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want to actually use the camera I don't
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want to be dealing with taking it off or
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having sticky residue that I have to
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clean and then there's the question of
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how do I put it back afterwards enter
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webcam covers and it's a tiny little
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market but it's actually one that you
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should be checking out and I have and
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I've tried a number of them and the
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problem is most of the webcam covers are
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sliders they're plastic and they're too
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big and they're too thick so they don't
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work with my MacBook Pro so that's why I
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was really psyched when spy slid sent me
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Indiegogo product this is actually a
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pre-production unit end unit's going to
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look exactly the same but it's made out
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of stainless steel it's a tiny 610 of a
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millim thick it's 14 mm long 8 mm wide
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you can see it in this image and it's
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small I mean it's just this tiny little
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thing it's actually kind of tricky to
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get it onto your computer in the right
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place and as you can see here you know
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your camera it's pretty tiny it's just
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that little circle right there and so
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what I ended up doing to install it is I
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actually had my computer like this with
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the screen down and then I had some
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really bright lights so that I could
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maneuver it just so and I was also
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running Skype at the time and having it
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monitor what was coming out through my
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webcam cuz I didn't want to have like
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black edging or vignetting or anything
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so it's a to get together you can do
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that and get it to align perfectly I
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would suggest you actually have it so it
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doesn't cover the light just so you know
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if someone ever did access or some
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software ever did access your camera
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you'd see the light come on so that's
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pretty handy and took me just a couple
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seconds to put it on and now it's done
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and when I want to use it I slide it
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open and all the rest of the time with a
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little move of my finger I slide it
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close and here's what it looks like in
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Skype when it's monitoring my webcam and
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I have have it closed that's exactly
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what I want a bad guy to see and then
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they're going to be like well I'm Mr
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super bad hacker but you're obviously
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blocking me so I'll just move on to the
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next guy that's how you want to do it so
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stainless steel super tiny and hey
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speaking of which can I ask you real
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quick to click the Subscribe button and
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go ahead and subscribe to my channel
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yeah cool then you can actually catch
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all my other videos very helpful for
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both of us now this is like I said it's
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tiny stainless steel they're running an
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Indiegogo campaign and that's really you
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want to jump in if you want to get one
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or more of these this is the way to do
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it on the Indiegogo campaign there's
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$7.50 each or you can get three for $16
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based on current euro to US doll
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conversion rates that might change
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slightly when the c campaign is done
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then they're actually going to bump up
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and it'll be $10 each or $21 for three
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of them now I just got the one but I'm
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going to pick up a couple more for my
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children's computers because again
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there's no reason to have that webcam
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sitting there as an invitation for some
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hacker to come and start monitoring
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that's not so cool now you can learn
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more about spy Slide by going to you
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guessed it spy slide.com and i'
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recommend that you check it out so this
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is Dave Taylor and I'll catch you in my
