Laptop webcam stickers remind you of the snitch inside

Ozge sez, "These stickers turn a laptop webcam into a CCTV camera. The idea is to comment on the latest incidents of spying on school children (in Lower Merion and the Bronx), which you have been covering."

Alas, they don't appear to be for sale. I'd love to give 'em out on school visits!

CCTV Stickers (Thanks, Ozge!)

• [cratermoon]

  I can’t recall where I found the original (someone please speak up to give credit where credit is due!) but I’ve been known to place stickers made from this image where they are most effective: http://xexexe.net/images/warning_signs/ubiquitous.surveillance.warning.jpg

• [lava]

  I can fix that school spying problem with a piece of duct tape.

• [dougfort]

  In Pat Barker’s ‘The Eye in the Door’ a prisoner paints an eye over the hole the warders use to look into her cell.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_in_the_Door

• [Joe Funk]

  Yep. The only flaw I see in these stickers is that there’s a hole where the webcam is.

  I miss the days when webcams had plastic flip covers over the lenses.

  • [Anonymous]

    and also, for that matter, that they cover both the mic and the light which tells you the camera is on.

  • [Chris Tucker]

    “I miss the days when webcams had plastic flip covers over the lenses.”

    Which is why I have an Apple iSight external webcam plugged into my Macintosh.

    Built in internal lens cover AND the camera is “off” when the cover is in place.

• [Moriarty]

  This’ll show ‘em!

• [Chris Tucker]

  Perhaps not as cool as the CCTV stickers.

  The iPatch sliding lens cover.

  US$4.99 Silver/Black/White

  Don’t leave your school supplied MacBook open on your desk in your bedroom and turned on without one!