Am I the only one who has far more sensitive content visible on the screen and filesystem of my computer than through its camera? I feel like, at least for the threat models that I consider likely, if someone manages to hack my laptop and get (for example) microphone access, the thing I am most worried about is that they will use acoustic analysis of keystrokes to recover my banking password, not that they will hear me... singing in the shower, I guess? Based on my understanding of current laptop OS's, just directly making a key-logger the straightforward way is easier anyway, so I'm not that concerned.
I fear that the sense of security people feel from putting tape over their webcam might be hiding much more realistic threats.
I fear that the sense of security people feel from putting tape over their webcam might be hiding much more realistic threats.