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I received the exact same template mail. They had also included an old password that I presume was leaked in the Adobe hack or something. Didn't really feel wor

• culturestate 6y ago
  > it's physically impossible to enable the webcam without the status LED getting activated People put way too much trust in webcam LEDs. Not because they don't work or could be bypassed, but because it's super easy to just not notice it if it only comes on for a split second. It doesn't take much time to grab a single frame; maybe you've been staring...intently...at the screen and get tunnel vision, or you just look away, or whatever. Even if the LED was forced to light up for half a second before and after the camera became active as a sort of safety interlock, what's the average user gonna do with that information if it's unexpected? Panic and close the lid? I'm not super paranoid about this but I'm just paranoid enough that I use Oversight[1] and manually approve whichever app is asking for access at the time. You can do this halfway natively in Catalina, but as far as I know it's binary - either the app has access or it doesn't, you can't set it to ask each time. 1. https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html