[TorqueDog]

So wait.

Playstation Eye, Xbox Live Vision, Kinect for Xbox 360... why did we not have this alarmist sort of reaction to having motion capture devices on our consoles before? Has there ever been a reported instance of a console being compromised by a remote attacker so as to gain access to the camera feed when the console was powered on?

I'm genuinely trying to understand what the big concern is here. We have cameras in our laptops, web cams on our desktop PCs, cameras on our cell-phones (front and back). A cell phone is always on and always connected (since most people don't actually power down their devices), doesn't the same risk apply to those devices? I'm sure it can't take too much work by a developer to create an application that could turn on a cell phone camera and begin photo/video capture when the screen is in standby mode.