I just assume my laptops are all compromised, because if they are managed or have any commercial software on them, they are. Put another way, if you think your

I just assume my laptops are all compromised, because if they are managed or have any commercial software on them, they are. Put another way, if you think your machine is secure, can you afford to be wrong? The reason I have used a lens cover as long as there have been cams (back to the SGI days) is because, to borrow a phrase, corporate IT people are not gentlemen. Is anyone really going to try find a novel rootkit on their daily driver windows thinkpad or airbook, when you could more easily set up a honeynet if you were hunting that threat. Without a honeypot, pulling apart your workstation means you are your own control group, and you just start losing your mind. To me that seems like spending a day to source and replace a UART in a cheap pair of headphones instead of replacing them. If I still ran linux or a bsd I would pay more attention, but running a commercial OS is already being at such a disadvantage that the effort doesn't justify the results. Instead, there is a room or a box that electronics go in when they aren't being used. Software security controls are a speedbump for the threat actors most of us deal with. If they want to get you, they will. Cam covers and physical controls are the best possible controls because they do what they are. The same cannot be said for software.