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Even if you cover the camera, there is no way to do the same with the microphone (turning it off in software is not the same). Vendors should make machines wit
by jimhefferon 10y ago
Even if you cover the camera, there is no way to do the same with the microphone (turning it off in software is not the same). Vendors should make machines with a hardware switch.
- anpill 10y agoBut where would they fit that? The sides of today's laptops already have a whopping one port! /s Why did hardware switches die out?
- tonylemesmer 10y agothey break. and only a small proportion of customers demand them. (speculation)
- jimhefferon 10y agoI have a slide switch on my Dell laptop to turn off wifi. I've never known anyone to use it. (Not to say there isn't a use, but rather to say that a major vendor puts it in despite that the average customer would not use it, and it doesn't seem to break.)
- hanklazard 10y agoWe had similar laptops in a clinic where I worked a few years ago. The hardware switch for wifi caused hours of confusion and many unnecessary calls to the IT service--I never understood the use-case. Is there one?
- Tiksi 10y agoMost of those slide switches aren't actually hardware switches, they just tell the firmware/driver to disable it.
- linker3000 10y ago...time to knock-up a coin-cell driven white noise generator attached to a piezo disc in a slim case with self-adhesive fixing. I offer you the hiss-o-tron 'improved-security' device.
- coldtea 10y agoActually just covering the microhole opening will make it unable to get most/any of the sound.