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Some people do threat modelling kind of like this: What are the threats I can stop? OK, those are my threats. I will stop them. All safe now.


Or: What is the lowest hanging fruit, err security threat, that I can easily counter? Scotch tape over the camera - check. What's the next lowest hanging fruit?

<tinfoil_hat> Driving a car which has an unknown number of cameras, microphones, and is constantly connected (and can not be disconnected while still retaining the ability to drive the car)? Perhaps that's not a car I would ever be able to trust, and perhaps its not a car I should buy. </tinfoil_hat>


It's not paranoia if they install a camera in plain view that will record your image to a secret remote server.


It's also a matter of what sort of information is exposed. Video is something most people care about. Audio, not so much. The latter tends to be far less embarrassing/incriminating.


Audio is far less embarrassing/incriminating?

A camera pointed at my face will, at worst, catch me picking my nose or something. A microphone will pick up all sorts of stuff I really don't want other people hearing. Audio is way worse.


> Audio, not so much.

" Haldeman: That the way to handle this now is for us to have Walters call Pat Gray and just say, “Stay the hell out of this…this is ah, business here we don’t want you to go any further on it.” That’s not an unusual development,…

Nixon: Um huh. "




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