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entodoays

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From: Malta

Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 118

Webcam configured as keyboard

I'm seeing this in the journal:

Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'TOSHIBA Web Camera'
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (**) TOSHIBA Web Camera: always reports core events
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (**) evdev: TOSHIBA Web Camera: Device: "/dev/input/event12"
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (--) evdev: TOSHIBA Web Camera: Vendor 0xbda Product 0x58e5
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (--) evdev: TOSHIBA Web Camera: Found keys
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (II) evdev: TOSHIBA Web Camera: Configuring as keyboard
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.5/3-1.5:1.0/input/input15/event12"
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "TOSHIBA Web Camera" (type: KEYBOARD, id 9)
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (**) Option "xkb_layout" "mt,fr,gb"
Mar 27 14:01:02 user-PC gdm-Xorg-:0[424]: (**) Option "xkb_variant" ",oss,"

Why is a Webcam being configured as a keyboard? Is my system hacked? Is someone using my Webcam driver to pass commands to my PC?