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I think the light may be in hardware. It is on the OLPC.
by varaon 16y ago
I think the light may be in hardware. It is on the OLPC.
- qq66 16y 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 16y 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 16y agoWell that's certainly the way it ought to be, if you ask me.