Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
Blindfold Names the App Using Your Webcam or Mic
A Windows 10 and 11 tray utility that identifies which application is using a camera or microphone and keeps a local activity record.
Why it surfacedBlindfold focuses on a specific privacy blind spot: instead of stopping at the anonymous `svchost.exe`, it says it can identify the client by app name, executable, publisher, device, and PID. Its copy is unusually direct about the threat model, from forgotten meeting apps to remote-access software running from a temporary folder.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.