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Apple Support: Wait until the light turn green, and then put a tape cover on your camera. ️
by didibus 6y ago
Apple Support: Wait until the light turn green, and then put a tape cover on your camera. ️
- coldtea 6y agoOr you know, if you never see a green light, you never had any problem. How about that? Tin foil much?
- airstrike 6y agoUnless the LED somehow gets disabled, stops working, or something like it. It's not like the tape is ineffective, so why does Apple care if people use it?
- Widdershin 6y agoBecause it can damage the laptop?
- ekianjo 6y agoBecause they designed it poorly without understanding end users?
- kick 6y agoA minority of end users cares enough to actually put tape over their webcam.
- ekianjo 6y agoSurely a minority, but it's steadily increasing even among non-technical folks. I see it all the time nowadays.
- Jweb_Guru 6y agoNot as small of a minority as you think.
- dmoy 6y agoThey hand them out for free at my wife's work I think.
- II2II 6y agoSometimes that minority may be surprising. I have seen people who are otherwise very careless about their computer's security put tape over their computer's camera. When you think about it, it makes sense. People frequently bring their computer into private spaces. Where any given person draws that line will vary, depending upon their expectations of privacy. (One of the criticism I've heard of the recent shift to online schooling is the use of video conferencing, because some kids don't want to effectively invite all of their classmates into their home. This is hardly what I would consider a paranoid demographic and is a situation where you have a considerable amount of control over what people see and when.) Is it really that strange to suppose that some people will want to cover up their camera?
- pera 6y agoReally? What kind of tape can damage a MacBook? I've never heard of this before
- airstrike 6y agoThen suggest covering it with a piece of cloth or a post-it.
- hpen 6y agoApple hardwired the LED to the camera. It can't be disabled.
- dahfizz 6y agoHow do you know? And how do you know there is not a bug in the electrical design?
- simonh 6y agoHow do we know there isn’t a secret spy camera hidden somewhere else in the laptop? How do we know Apple didn’t hide spy nabobots in their products that spread all over our houses watching everything we do?
- dahfizz 6y ago"Hey man, even if you're sure your gun isn't loaded you still shouldn't point it at people. Can never be too careful". "YeAh but wHaT if tHerEs a sNipEr alReaDy PoiNted aT yOu??". Makes most sense to secure the camera that you already know exists and is looking right after you. Then you can spend energy on other things.
- hpen 6y agoThe circuitry can't be that complex. Meaning the likelihood of a bug being pretty low. I mean come on, it's a wire attached to the camera power source with a resistor and a LED.
- dahfizz 6y agoHow do you know? How do you know how the LED is implemented?
- rimjongun 6y agoIs this what you think passes for informed commentary? There are innumerable things I take for granted. Sure, I assume Ifixit isn’t a CIA front and their tear downs fairly accurately represent what ships to the customer. Barring hopeless threat models, the light is a decent trade off.
- didibus 6y agoAnd what if you see a green light? And you're not the one using the camera?
- etxm 6y agoThen something is really up and I’d not be concerned about the cam cover on my computer so much as whatever malware is allowing remote control of the camera.
- GuardianCaveman 6y agoYeah unless it’s your teenage daughters Mac and they just took a picture of her changing and are going to blackmail her with it.
- nsonha 6y agoSome one wrote a paper about indicators can be compromised by turning on and off the cam rapidly
- Footkerchief 6y agoPulse width modulation -- what can't it do!
- nsonha 6y agonot familiar with circuitry. Just clarifying, you're saying that can enforce the indicator to be on long enough to be noticed?