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Originally Posted by 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.
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Big difference is that the camera on your laptop or cell phone isn't always on and connected to Microsoft's network. And the issue isn't so much worrying about hacking as it is an invasion of privacy. How long do you figure before we hear about the first police warrant to get Microsoft to hand over the footage from someone's Xbox One? With how incarceration happy the US government is I bet they're just salivating at the thought of potentially millions of people voluntarily sticking a surveillance system in their living rooms