The paparazzi are determined to get a photo of me double-screening Netflix and Reddit. They post a tantalising link to a website that will try to activate my webcam, take a photo and post it to their file host to be auctioned to the Red Tops for their celebrity gossip pages.
Understanding the answer to stopping this means we have to understand how programs talk to hardware and how the different parts of the computer are connected and how they talk to each other. Otherwise we risk locking the door but ignoring the fact there’s no wall.
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