Mac Technician Installed Spyware to Photograph Women

[her209]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...an_installed_spyware_to_photograph_women.html

LULZ... he goes to Biola University, a Christian college.

 

[Texashiker]

LULZ... he goes to Biola University, a Christian college.

Whats going to a christian college got to do with it?

You dont think christians have sexual desires like everyone else?

At least he was taking pics of adults, instead of children.

 

[her209]

You dont think christians have sexual desires like everyone else?

No. No they don't.

 

[Soundmanred]

He was hired to fix their computers, but police say that Trevor Harwell instead installed spyware software that took candid photos of his clients in various states of undress.
Harwell had been a Macintosh specialist with a Los Angeles-area home computer repair company called Rezitech. That's how he allegedly had the opportunity to install the spy software, called Camcapture, on computers.
While working on repair assignments, the 20-year-old technician secretly set up a complex system that could notify him whenever it was ready to snap a shot using the computer's webcam, according to Sergeant Andrew Goodrich, a spokesman with the Fullerton Police Department in California. "It would let his server know that the victim's machine was on. The server would then notify his smartphone... and then the images were recorded on his home computer," he said.
Police say they've found thousands of images on Harwell's computers and have identified dozens of victims, all of them women in Los Angeles and Orange County. Harwell was arrested Wednesday by Fullerton police.
Harwell was formerly a student at Biola University, a small Christian university in southern California. Many of the victims were Biola students and Harwell may have compromised university systems as well, police said.
Harwell couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Rezitech representatives were unable to immediately comment for this story.
Police were tipped off last year after a Rezitech customer took her computer into an Apple Genius Bar for servicing. It had been popping up weird messages. One of them, designed to look like a Mac OS X system warning, said, "You should fix your internal sensor soon. If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor."
The Genius Bar technician found the Camcapture software on this victim's computer and said, "You need to call police," Goodrich said.
She wasn't the only person to get this particular message. Some victims, tricked by the pop-up warning, did take their computers with them into the shower, Goodrich said.
Victims can find the Camcapture software by looking in their /Library/WebServer/Documents folder.

 

[PottedMeat]

Police were tipped off last year after a Rezitech customer took her computer into an Apple Genius Bar for servicing. It had been popping up weird messages. One of them, designed to look like a Mac OS X system warning, said, "You should fix your internal sensor soon. If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor."

The Genius Bar technician found the Camcapture software on this victim's computer and said, "You need to call police," Goodrich said.

She wasn't the only person to get this particular message. Some victims, tricked by the pop-up warning, did take their computers with them into the shower, Goodrich said.

jesus these victims are stupid

 

[Pardus]

and they say mac users are morons.. hehe

 

[Kadarin]

Funny how it's a crime when this guy does it, but not when the Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, PA does it? http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2037215/School-District-Hit-With-New-Mac-Spying-Lawsuit

 

[PottedMeat]

Funny how it's a crime when this guy does it, but not when the Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, PA does it? http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/2037215/School-District-Hit-With-New-Mac-Spying-Lawsuit

pay Blake Robbins $175,000 and cover $425,000 in court costs

are court costs normally like that? heh if i won that suit i'd take the money and move to a neighboring district :awe:

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

and they say mac users are morons.. hehe

Bimbo at least?

 

[0roo0roo]

not really sure how i feel about this, when his victims were so stupid

 

[JulesMaximus]

Whats going to a christian college got to do with it?

You dont think christians have sexual desires like everyone else?

At least he was taking pics of adults, instead of children.

Aren't christians and republicans supposed to be above this sort of deviant behavior? Kind of like Larry Craig and Ted Haggard? Oops...nevermind.

 

[grrl]

jesus these victims are stupid

X100

 

[yhelothar]

One of them, designed to look like a Mac OS X system warning, said, "You should fix your internal sensor soon. If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor." The Genius Bar technician found the Camcapture software on this victim's computer and said, "You need to call police," Goodrich said.
She wasn't the only person to get this particular message. Some victims, tricked by the pop-up warning, did take their computers with them into the shower, Goodrich said.

 

[gorcorps]

But but but... Macs are safe

 

[The Boston Dangler]

all of them women in Los Angeles and Orange County

"You should fix your internal sensor soon. If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor."

9 out of 10 for target selection, minus several million for poor taste and execution. surely he knows of ip spoofing and other concealment techniques. also, i think asking victims to hop in the shower was a step too far.

 

[JTsyo]

But but but... Macs are safe

a bogus point when someone is at your computer physically installing software.

 

[SirStev0]

Police were tipped off last year after a Rezitech customer took her computer into an Apple Genius Bar for servicing. It had been popping up weird messages. One of them, designed to look like a Mac OS X system warning, said, "You should fix your internal sensor soon. If unsure what to do, try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor."
The Genius Bar technician found the Camcapture software on this victim's computer and said, "You need to call police," Goodrich said.
She wasn't the only person to get this particular message. Some victims, tricked by the pop-up warning, did take their computers with them into the shower, Goodrich said.

I knew that was coming. Lol.

 

[lupi]

9 out of 10 for target selection, minus several million for poor taste and execution. surely he knows of ip spoofing and other concealment techniques. also, i think asking victims to hop in the shower was a step too far.

true, but

Some victims, tricked by the pop-up warning, did take their computers with them into the shower, Goodrich said.

 

[Paratus]

Genius?

 

[Barfo]

Need to see the pics. For science.

 

[illusion88]

That's shady as shit, but the hot steam pop up message got a laugh out of me.

How could you possibly think that was a legit error message?

 

[silverpig]

That's shady as shit, but the hot steam pop up message got a laugh out of me.

How could you possibly think that was a legit error message?

What's more, why would you ever design a spyware cam capture program that popped up stuff like that? He'd still be doing it if all the program did was run in the background taking shots. Yes, you could look at a list of processes running and capture network traffic, but your average joe isn't going to know to do that, and certainly won't know what all those processes do.

The stupid steam/sensor message was just begging the user to take it in to a pro.

 

[SP33Demon]

Smart targeting women using Macs. Talk about easy prey. The popup steam message makes him a dumbass, though.

 

[Barfo]

What's more, why would you ever design a spyware cam capture program that popped up stuff like that? He'd still be doing it if all the program did was run in the background taking shots. Yes, you could look at a list of processes running and capture network traffic, but your average joe isn't going to know to do that, and certainly won't know what all those processes do.

The stupid steam/sensor message was just begging the user to take it in to a pro.

He did that to have his victims have a powered on laptop in the bathroom.

 

[busydude]

I just don't know why people do this TBH. I mean there are millions of pics and videos of beautiful girls in teh nude.. available online. I just don't get it.