If it’s a very targeted attack, by someone who can use actionable intelligence from your whiteboard, then maybe.
In this case, that implies, what? CNN hacking NBC laptops to see what stories they’re discussing in the meeting? And paying some intern to monitor hours of video data in the hopes that the laptop passes by some useful whiteboard?
Your typical hacker is still far, far more interest in your keystroke data. And if the CIA is watching you, they still aren’t you know, watching you. They don’t care about your face.
I still think this is just playing to the ick factor of people feeling like they’re being watched, and so playing to a paranoia that actually doesn’t make any sense – and worse, makes people feel safer when they aren’t. People, who for the most part rely on sight, have the gut instinct that the video camera is the “window” into their lives, but that’s just wrong.
Are there any actual cases of anyone being hacked, and having the video data be useful to the hackers, except for pervs?
