Animated gifs in web pages which only animate if a webcam is plugged in, and only if they detect that no-one is looking directly at them.
-- bibliotaphist, Jul 16 2014

Truly excellent +

How about other animations that do rude things when no one is looking?
-- DenholmRicshaw, Jul 16 2014


This is... brilliant.

One problem: can a web browser access your webcam?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 16 2014


[MaxwellBuchanan], almost certainly. But not directly; you would have to plug in something like Java or ActiveX, applications that can link a browser to everything in a computer system that the browser's built-in security model forbids accessing. That's why Java and ActiveX are associated with security risks, of course!
-- Vernon, Jul 17 2014


This might startle me. Yay. +
-- blissmiss, Jul 17 2014



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