>Another “clever” solution is to use a software off switch, like this (for Windows). But it simply turns your webcam’s driver on and off. The OpenBSD people ha

>Another “clever” solution is to use a software off switch, like this (for Windows). But it simply turns your webcam’s driver on and off. The OpenBSD people have recently made microphone off the default at the kernel level. You need to have root access to turn it on again and you need to take an explicit action to have it come on at boot. That is actually sort of secure as people don't run as root in *nix environments when they are doing things that can get them cracked (i.e. run web browsers). Turning the microphone on should really be an admin level thing... Perhaps what we want isn't a switch but a button. You can activate it but it is off by default. There really needs to be a obvious light as well...