can anyone tell me if i am using cam can they keep what i brodcast?

Question

like can they tak snapshots of that broadcast or keep a record of it

Answer 1

yes, keep your clothes on!

also, the webcam doesn't go directly to the person on the other end. it goes though many computers along the way and a lot of people can be watching

also the 20 year you are showing off too, is some bald 50 year old with a daughter or grand-daughter your age.

Answer 2

Any material put onto the Internet will pass through many other nodes (ie, computers) on the way to its destination. Every one of those computers may, quite normally, record that traffic, and abnormally, if it has been corrupted (a virus, a Trojan Horse, or some other malware) it may do so abnormally. Your cam signal is no exception.

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keeping deliberate cam casts confidential

If you are serious about deliberately using your Web cam across the Internet, your only practical option is to encrypt the video stream with an effective cryptosystem. Any other measure may work (sort of, and you can never know if it failed), but relies on 'security through obscurity' which is not a reasonable approach in any real sense.

This is not a simple matter, as there is lots of utterly worthless crypto product on offer (both commercially and free), and distinguishing between worthless and worthwhile in this category is philosophically not at all simple. It depends on abstruse technical questions of breakability (very few have any qualification here) as well as on the actual resources and knowledge of whoever might want to attack the crypto protection. The latter is certainly indeterminate as one can never know who the Adversary actually is. In any case, anyone who you wish to receive your transmission must have the necessary crypto software -- AND the keys needed -- before they can make any sense of your transmission. Getting that right, securely, is a classic problem in crypto and is not entirely satisfactorily solved even today.

There is, in addition, a question of processing overhead. Encryption (at one end) and decryption (at the other) requires considerable processing effort, at least for all the quality crypto approaches known to date. Video signals in particular produce a very considerable quantity of data to be handled, and a slow CPU (or poorly designed crypto software) may not be able to keep up, resulting in jerky images or dropped frames when they can't.

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inadvertent cam broadcasting

The video feed from most cams is somewhat protected by an authentication mechanism. Unless you can provide a password, the software in the cam will not connect to you. Passwords are routinely not changed from the (easily known to any with enough sense to stay off a golf course in a lightning storm) factory default by cam end users, so this is often useless in practice as an access control mechanism. There are some famous examples of surveillance cams being officially installed, in schools for instance, by underinformed administrators, who do not realize that the feeds from those cameras is available outside the official school monitoring arrangements. That administrators so often don't realize such things is not a testament to the knowledge / competence of the contractors or consultants involved who darned well should have been sufficiently informed on such points, and bright enough to make sure the responsible, if technically challenged, folks are told.

But, regardless of whether you change the access password from the factory default on your own cam(s), its data stream, if it goes through any network (including the Internet), will be readable and copyable, by any network node by which it passes. Essentially any of millions (more or less depending on network topology) of nodes, if that feed reaches the Internet. Unless adequately and sensibly encrypted as discussed above.

Answer 3

Yes ofcourse there are many softwares to take snapshots from
Web cam

Answer 4

well, i know that they can take a snapshot and edit it so it looks like it's just you in the picture....anyone can do that....as to keep a record of it.....they might if they have the right software for it...

Answer 5

yes there is programs that can record webcams, take screenshots etc etc. i use a program called
Camtasia Studio 3 for recording screen images/webcams etc.

Answer 6

Yes, Then they can turn around and post it on a website, or sell it to people.

Answer 7

yes . its is a data stream.

at the least a screen capure progam can do it

Answer 8

I'm sure they can, I would be very careful of what you're doing on that thing!!!