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This program lets you snap a photo of whoever’s trying to hack you

Posted on September 10, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Hayley Tsukayama reports on a nifty-sounding hack-back program. Whether it’s legal or not is unclear:

Have you ever gotten an e-mail from a service warning that someone is trying to hack into your account and wondered: Who is doing this to me?

A password manager called LogMeOnce now gives you the option to take a picture of whoever is trying to access the accounts that you’ve registered with its service. It does this by hacking the hacker’s camera, whether that is attached to a computer or mobile device, and secretly taking a photo.

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