Is this possible ?
I was chatting to a friend yesterday and he was recalling visiting a family member in hospital. They were using a laptop over a wireless subscription service for longer-term patients and whilst reading an article together noticed that the webcam had turned itself on and was potentially 'watching' them. It stayed on for about 10mins and then seemed to turn itself off again. Apart from being both amusing and sinister, they surmised that the administrator of the system was bored and was snooping around.
Although I know that this is perfectly possible for hackers to do, especially with windows, is it possible for someone to do this on a closed system and with most of the users having firewalls/passwords/other to protect them?
SHJ