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> Blackmailing people with pictures taken from webcams

How can one blackmail a person with webcam pictures where the person just stares into a screen?

If you mean NSFW pics I don't think they're done with a computer's webcam cam. Nowadays, people use phones for that use case.

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It's not only pics of people staring into a screen.

There was a case about 5-6 years ago when a guy recorded and streamed his secretly gay roomate having sex in the dorm. The gay roomate committed suicide later.

Work computers can be taken home or to business trips where things can happen in the hotel after the deal is struck.

>where things can happen in the hotel after the deal is struck.

Serious question: what happens when a deal is struck? They go out to drink? They go back to their hotels? They have sex with their coworkers?

Serious answer: whatever happens is none of your or FBI's business ;)

I'm not naked when I'm using the computer. When I am naked my laptop is closed and most likely in my bag. I guess a lot of people keep their laptop open on their nightstand or something?

Open all night on a table/desk certainly isn't rare. If you're in a dorm room or a studio apartment that can mean "staring straight at the bed".

A lot of people mastubates in front of their computer.

If society wasn't so prudish about naked bodies, it'd be less of a problem. It's one of those shoot the hostage situations. We could defuse a lot of our concerns if we'd relax our self imposed constraints and it would give us more time to worry about the things which matter more.

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