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Automated software-controlled shutter is useful. Attacker can’t record without engaging the shutter. Engaging the shutter outs the attacker. (Contrast with sof
by goblin89 6y ago
Automated software-controlled shutter is useful. Attacker can’t record without engaging the shutter. Engaging the shutter outs the attacker.
(Contrast with software-controlled LED indicators: attacker can record undetected if they manage to bypass the LED.)
A manual shutter covers still more attack vectors, but automated shutter is better than no shutter.
- curiousllama 6y agoThis is a good point, but a hardwired LED does the same thing without creating a point of failure, no?
- angry_octet 6y agoExcept that the LED is usually not hardwired, but controlled by another microcontroller, which gets an on/off message from the camera micro, which is connected via USB as a UVC device. The LED is often directly controllable via the UVC interface.