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There was an article on HN about a dev who played the inverse shutter sound when taking a photo, which would destructively interfere with the OS camera sound (t

There was an article on HN about a dev who played the inverse shutter sound when taking a photo, which would destructively interfere with the OS camera sound (this was iOS) before being output by the speakers, resulting in no audible sound.

Ntrails 8y ago
That's actually a beautiful solution
casefields 8y ago
It's there to let the moral panic-ers feel safe. It doesn't take much effort to remove the shitter sounds.
grawprog 8y ago
It's also possible to silently take pictures in the background using termux on an android phone with one line. >Usage: termux-camera-photo [-c camera-id] output-file Take a photo and save it to a file in JPEG format. -c camera-id ID of the camera to use (see termux-camera-info), default: 0
codedokode 8y ago
It can be fixed by adding little randomness into builtin shutter sound. Or by adding a LED that is physically connected with camera voltage supply.
- jerf 8y ago
  A better fix is for the camera to take full control of the audio output for the duration. It can override volume and such while it's at it. It's still kinda a stopgap, though. If one is a dedicated creeper, opening a cell phone and disabling a speaker is intro-level electronics hacking, hardly even worthy of the term. I mean, I've accidentally disabled the speaker on my laptop once because I sealed it up after a hard drive swapout and simply forgot to hook the tiny speaker wires back up afterwards.