It's not paranoia: Hackers can use your webcam to spy on you

Zuckerberg posted a routine-looking photo last week to his own Facebook account that touted Instagram, but sharp-eyed viewers noticed that a laptop computer behind him had silver tape over the webcam and the microphone jack. — Facebook/Mark Zuckerberg

WASHINGTON: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook does it. So does FBI Director James Comey. Should you? 

What they do is cover up their laptop webcams – sometimes with just a piece of opaque tape – blocking scuzzball computer hackers from activating the built-in cameras and spying on them. Perhaps in their bedrooms.