By Kurt Seifried (kurt@seifried.org)

An interesting month, earlier in the month we have a report that a judge has ok’ed “roving” wiretaps, which use a person’s cell phone as a bug to transmit everything it hears to law enforcement. Oh, but it gets better; this has been going since at least 2004.

To top things off we have Apple Computers Inc. “Security Update 2006-008″ from earlier in the week. This flaw allows an attacker to create Java applets that can use the built in iSight camera on an Apple computer to take images and upload them to a server.

Stop for a moment and look around. How many devices are there in the room with built in cameras and microphones, and the ability to communicate with other devices?

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