King5 just promo-ed a scare story about someone hijacking an iSight. First I’ve heard of this, might take a look when the news comes on.

UPDATE: This is absurd TV news bullshit. Here’s the (incredibly annoying registration forwarded) link to the King5 website’s version of the story. The footage for the show featured an Apple G4 with iSight active, and there is a screencap from that footage on the site.

Allow me to excerpt it:

Cyberstalker watched teen through Web cam

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The hacker gained access to the victim’s computer through an email attachment virus. He started spying on private online conversations, and began sending vulgar, sexual messages to the victim’s friends and family.

The teen had the virus and the hacker’s spy ware removed from her computer, but the stalker kept coming back. He managed to hack in and turn on the Web cam in her bedroom, and took nude pictures of her without her knowledge.

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Internet security experts say once someone hacks your computer they can control every aspect of it, including Web cams. Wireless and digital networks are especially vulnerable.

The bottom line: unless you disconnect them, Web cams are always watching.

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Local police are investigating the crime. They believe they know the hacker’s name and are working to track him down.

To summarize: a nameless person watched an unnameable underage person via webcam. Police are investigating. There’s literally no useful information whatsover. There’s no information about what kind of camera, what sort of virus, or (and this is key) even what kind of platform the victim was using.

So, uh, be scared of the internet. The hackers will get you.

Man, King5 used to be good. But this is pathetic.