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I remember an article from when this story broke about how the administrators bragged about a script they wrote that would turn the camera on, but block it's ou
by dantheman 17y ago
I remember an article from when this story broke about how the administrators bragged about a script they wrote that would turn the camera on, but block it's output so if a user saw it was on and then loaded a program to see what was display they would see nothing.
Apparently the also ran this randomly so it would flicker every now and then...
purely despicable.
- drivebyacct 17y agoHuh, I guess I had thought they'd disabled the light somehow...
- varaon 17y agoI think the light may be in hardware. It is on the OLPC.
- qq66 17y agoEven for a hardware implementation, the LED will be driven by an output pin of the onboard microcontroller. If the webcam firmware is flashable over USB it could be remotely disabled by software.
- hga 17y agoThey're Macs, Apple is wise about this and it's in the hardware and cannot be disabled without doing physical "surgery" to the hardware.
- drivebyacct 17y agoWell that's certainly the way it ought to be, if you ask me.