@inproceedings{1458cf7a485b41fbbe99efb97e3217dd,
title = "One Light, One App: Tackling a Common Misperception Causing Breach of User Privacy",
abstract = "Built-in and computer-connected web cameras can be hacked with malware that aim in activating the camera without setting on the green led indicator (in systems that support this feature). A simple countermeasure to at least preserve the user privacy, until the security incident is contained, is to cover the camera up when not in use. One could also argue that there is a sense of security when an application (e.g. zoom, WebEx, Skype) is using the web camera and the light is on. The user trusts that there is one-to-one relationship between the web-camera (and its light indicator) and an application. In this paper, we tackle this common misperception by demonstrating that the aforementioned relationship could be one-to-many, allowing many applications accessing the web camera stream simultaneously, posing a serious privacy threat that could go undetected.",
keywords = "macOS, Privacy, Simultaneous access, Web camera",
author = "Efi Siapiti and Ioanna Dionysiou and Harald Gjermundr{\o}d",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.; 37th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2022 ; Conference date: 13-06-2022 Through 15-06-2022",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-06975-8_23",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031069741",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "398--411",
editor = "Weizhi Meng and Simone Fischer-H{\"u}bner and Jensen, {Christian D.}",
booktitle = "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection - 37th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2022, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}