Kinect: Microsoft pledges to “aggressively challenge” government spying

[Michael-5]

sales2099 said:

Michael-5 said:

Skeeuk said:
just unplug kinect, it doesnt need to be connected. its as simple as that

Actually it does

but it can be turned off.

Sure you can say that hackers can access your camera while its off like in any laptop, but then thats a hacker thing, not the governments. And that certainly would say something about you and the enemies you make. But this is a extreme minority thing, something that can be prevented with a stick of tape, something many do on their web cam standard laptops.

It can't be turned off, it can only be "paused."

Paused is not off... and it's stupid that I can't physically unplug it.

Did you not say to use analogies? I have a Camera in my laptop, but it can be disabled. I also run my computer on an old version of Ubuntu which has no program to access the camera, so it's 100% useless on my laptop.

If I still had Windows, I would be worried about privacy invasion behind a camera if it was a problem, but I haven't heard about any scandals or serious comprimises in security (except Skype in this scandal, but I don't use skype).