Re: JAVA PERMISSIONS and webcam - question

From: Roedy Green (look-on_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 20:57:53 GMT

On 9 May 2004 03:52:26 -0700, ledfloyd2000@yahoo.com (Bobby A) wrote
or quoted :

>Can anyone tell me if I possibly, inadvertently, might have broadcast my webcam
>to the other computers on my home network? For some reason, I recall
>changing the java permissions to "Custom" and "I/O Access to all network
>addresses". I am running Windows 98 (first edition) on my HP 8485Z. The
>network is set up with my PC being hard-wired into a Linksys Wireless G type
>router. The other two PCs are wirelessly connected to it and the router is the
>gateway. The other PCs have Windows XP. The router's WEP encrypted
>security was not active. Could the other computers have just picked it up just
>because I was broadcasting? When I realized that that might have happened, I
>changed the settings back. Could Windows XP have detected the broadcast and
>played it, or would they have to be logged into the webcam website to receive
>it? I had been getting some funny looks lately and I wonder if that is the
>reason. It could be sort of embarrassing.

Java Applets cannot talk to your webcam without being signed. You
unless you oked running a signed Applet you are safe. However, ANY
program you downloaded, including flash ones, CAN snoop on you.

It does not matter what you said to your router. A snoop could pass
the stream through as http, masquerading as an innocent web page
request. 

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