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I wish that webcams on laptops had open-source hardware and also a hardware switch, which connects and disconnects the webcam from the laptop (and thanks to ope
by IvanK_net 10y ago
I wish that webcams on laptops had open-source hardware and also a hardware switch, which connects and disconnects the webcam from the laptop (and thanks to open source hardware you can be sure, that the switch has no "back-door"). Turining that switch off and on would be much easier than putting the duct tape off and on all the time.
Similar hardware switch would be useful for cameras and microphones in smartphones. You can never be sure, what your iOS, or Windows Phone, or some modified Android OS is actualy doing.
- this-dang-guy 10y agoI really miss the laptops that had physical switches and the little sliding camera covers. I'd even settle for a good case that just covers/muffles all of that.
- dandare 10y agoespecially microphones are a problem - you can always sticky tape the camera but you can not easily reversibly incapacitate the microphone
- this-dang-guy 10y agoEspecially since they don't even have to be surface mounted. It'd really be nice to be able to trust devices.
- memracom 10y agoSure you can. Think out of the box. A small speaker that sticks over the microphone opening and constantly plays a recording with two voices overlaid, one reading the Gettysburg address and the other reading the declaration of independence, constitution and amendments. You would have to be shouting to be intelligible over top of that.
- shermanyo 10y agoEven better, think of how a microphone works. Its just a magnet and wire, right? Could you place a small magnet over the mic to essentially lock it in place? no movement == nothing to record.
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