http://www.seattlepi.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Cyber-Expert-We-ve-Remotely-Spied-Through-The-4668683.php
By Geoffrey Ingersoll
Business Insider
July 16, 2013
Remotely taking control of someone's computer is not an unheard of hacker
exploit, but this claim about remotely controlling a Chinese hacker's
webcam is just crazy.
It starts with something called "attribution."
Attribution — finding the identity of an attacker — is notoriously
difficult, since there are several ways to mask the source of an attack.
During a BBC Radio interview published Monday, Jim Lewis, a former
diplomat now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
mentioned a shocking instance of attribution in which he claimed he
actually saw a Chinese hacker through that hacker's own webcam (emphasis
ours):
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