"Do you want to see something scary?"

PHOTOS BY JASON MADARA

The more ubiquitous cameras become, the less we're aware they're even there. They stare out at us blankly from our phones and laptops, our Xboxes and iPads, a billion eyes and ears just waiting to be turned on. But what if they were switched on—by someone else—when you least expected it? How would you feel, how would you behave, if the devices that surround your life were suddenly turned against you? -GQ Magazine

I read the article, The Hacker is Watching, by David Kushner, in GQ last month and I haven't been quite right since. Tired of carrying this yoke on my own, I decide to share an excerpt of the article with you in hopes of increasing your paranoia until you go irretrievably insane keeping you informed:

It was a Saturday night, not much happening in her Long Beach, California, neighborhood, so high school senior Melissa Young was home messing around on her computer. Her little sister, Suzy, was doing the same thing down the hall. The house was quiet, save the keyboard tapping in the girls' rooms, when the odd little instant message popped up on Melissa's screen—an IM from Suzy. Attached to the note was a file labeled simply SCARY.

Read more of this excerpt...after the jump!

Boo! The Stalker is watching you via Web-Cam 

and knows you have a pink vibrator! 

 Melissa wondered why her goof-off sister was IM'ing from the next room instead of just padding over—she wasn't usually that lazy—so she walked over to see what was up. Suzy just shrugged. She had no idea what her sister was talking about. Yeah, the IM had come from her account, but she hadn't sent it. Honest. That night, Suzy's 20-year-old friend Nila Westwood got the same note, the same attachment.


Unlike Melissa, she opened it, expecting, say, a video of some guy stapling his lip to his chin on YouTube. She waited. Nothing. When she called her friend to see what she'd missed, things actually got freaky: Suzy'd never sent a thing. The girls pieced together the clues and agreed: Suzy's AOL account had been hacked. For the next couple of weeks, the girls remained watchful for malware, insidious software capable of wreaking all sorts of havoc. But with no sign of trouble on their machines—no slow performance, no deleted files, no alerts from antivirus programs—they pretty much forgot about it.


 A month passed. Suzy, Melissa, and Nila went about their lives online and off. They chatted with friends, posted pictures, and when they were tired, stretched out on their beds to rest. But at some point, each of them looked up and noticed the same strange thing: the tiny light beside their webcam glowing. At first they figured it was some kind of malfunction, but when it happened repeatedly—the light flicking on, then off—the girls felt a chill. One by one, they gazed fearfully into the lenses, wondering if someone was watching and if, perhaps now, they were looking into the eye of something scary after all. Nila, for one, wasn't taking any chances. She peeled off a sticker and stuck it on the lens.

Luis Mijangos. The Professor X of Webcam hack.

That was smart. Read the rest of the crazy ass story of handicapped webcam hacker Luis Mijangos (who straight up loses his sh*t at one point), here.  It contains more, "I thought that only happened in the movies," crazy like:


"You have a pink vibrator," he said. It was like Amy had slipped into a stalker movie. Then he sent her an image file. Amy watched in horror as the picture materialized on the screen: a shot of her in that very room, naked on the bed, having webcam sex with James. 

Hopefully no one is watching you...RIGHT NOW

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