Yeah, I guess you're right about that after all. I had read the earlier posts about trying to prove who was stealing usb drives and that's what got me thinking about this. It would be a perfect way to obtain proof about stolen items or unauthorized computer use. Now that I have read up on the topic more there do seem to be several webcam viruses floating around the net, giving this a very black hat connotation. I guess this isn't really something that I necessarily want coded, just seemed like a possible solution and an interesting problem.