My take away from this article is teach your children about digital security and always keep webcams covered or hardware disabled.* There will always be people

My take away from this article is teach your children about digital security and always keep webcams covered or hardware disabled.* There will always be people willing to do this and it will probably continue to be technically feasible for the foreseeable future (if not "as long as we continue using computers) so preventing it at the demand side isn't realistic. Children/teens are apparently being digitally raped (I think this is a reasonable description of blackmailing/coercing a teen into doing "what I tell you" over webcam)... it baffles me that we place so low a value on the sort of computer literacy that could prevent this. Hopefully cases like this will cause enough outrage to give hardware producers the kick int he ass they need to fix this issue & alert parents & others to this issue. * Why the hell don't cameras & mics have hardware switches to turn them off?? Wifi hardware switches are common on laptops now, why doesn't this basic defense covering an obvious, proven attack vector exist??