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In terms of electronics it is fairly trivial and it can be inspected by eye (or microscope) if the manufacturer decides to not encapsulate everything on a chip
by krastanov 10y ago
In terms of electronics it is fairly trivial and it can be inspected by eye (or microscope) if the manufacturer decides to not encapsulate everything on a chip (which presumably would be the point of such a feature).
Just have the only positive voltage rail going to the camera be the same one that is directly powering the LED. The firmware will be turning this rail on and off, hence turning the camera and the LED on and off simultaneously.
- 1_2__3 10y agoIdle though on possible attack vectors: Convince the firmware to use a lower voltage, one that doesn't hit the breakover voltage on the LED but still powers the camera. Strobe the line, get snapshots without the LED doing more than very faintly glowing.
- krastanov 10y agoI have a very hard time believing that the camera itself will not brownout in such a case.
- umanwizard 10y agoLED activation voltage is less than what cameras typically require.
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- 3chelon 10y agoNeat ideas. It never even occurred to me that the power rail would be voltage-programmable, but of course it probably would. Your second idea is even more scary and realistic.