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How exactly are you gonna butt-dial with a USB webcam? Article says this feature requires a USB cable and has nothing to do with "glorious Web security". BTW I

• crabbone 3y ago
  There were probably hundreds of security breaches related to Web cams. These are the devices with very shady reputation. This is why you'll see laptop users taping over them. Now every time you plug your phone into a PC you have to start worrying about your phone being used to spy on you? > BTW I highly doubt that toggling settings in your BIOS is going to stop this supposed non-consensual tracking. Some are known to be impossible to stop. Some can be stopped. There are, unfortunately many of those. "Anti-theft" thing can be completely disabled for example. The "IT remote support" thing cannot, but can be configured to be less malicious (somewhat, not really, but still). It's not magic what they do. It's just (intentionally) poorly documented (and poorly implemented) stuff. But there are some enthusiastic people who try to discover what this stuff is actually doing. So, it's a fight that never ends. Eventually, enthusiasts will discover more of this stuff, take Intel to court and make them undo / allow to disable this. And then Intel will produce chips with more malicious stuff but rebranded and so on. I happen to work for another big h/w manufacturer, so... it's business as usual.