Warn your daughters - technology in the bedroom can be a problem

[derspiess]

I told Riley this story, and her first response was, "So... I'll be putting tape over the camera..."

She's such a bright girl.

  Hopefully Lola is as thoughtful.  Right now it's all I can do to keep her from running around the house without her diaper or pants on

[Ideologue]

Ide is a human doing.

According to Mitt Romney, I'm a human taking.

[jimmy olsen]

We live in a one-bedroom house. She can get dressed in her bedroom so that other people can get in the bathroom.

A one-bedroom house?  That has to be hard on your sex life.

Wasn't that the default for like 98% of humanity until the Industrial Revolution?

[DGuller]

Yeah, but people didn't have sex back then.

[jimmy olsen]

Yeah, but people didn't have sex back then.

[dps]

And I don't keep a broken clock around just because it tells the right time twice a day either.

Why do you keep it around?

[Ideologue]

It annoys Yi in an occasionally humorous or otherwise entertaining fashion.

[HVC]

And I don't keep a broken clock around just because it tells the right time twice a day either.

Why do you keep it around?

if he didn't use his broken right twice a day clock then he'd never be right

[Siege]

Okay, that's the quick-fix. I want to know how to prevent someone from hacking into my computer at all.

Don't use computers?

[viper37]

How does one prevent this from happening? Is it a password thing? If so, which password?

1- Make sure you have a sofware firewall and an hardware firewall.
2- Make sure you have an anti-virus and an anti-spyware.
3- Make regular scans.
4- Make regular updates to all your softwares and to your OS.
5- Beware of links you receive from strangers, never click on them.
6- Keep your router firmware updated, or even better yet, use an Open-Source firmware like dd-wrt.  The default firmware of many commercial routers contain known, unpatched exploits.
7- Disable UPnP (Universal Plug&Play) on your router, due to #6.
8- The integrated webcam on the laptop won't work if the lid is shut...  just sayin'.  For a regulard external webcam on any PC, just unplug it.

It will not prevent a good hacker to hack your computer if he choses so.  Some governments have way more securities than we can afford and they do get hacked.  However, it will deter 99,9% of the script kiddies out there.