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Huh, I guess I had thought they'd disabled the light somehow...

• varaon 17y ago
  I think the light may be in hardware. It is on the OLPC.
  • qq66 17y ago
    Even 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 ago
    They'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 16y ago
      Well that's certainly the way it ought to be, if you ask me.