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I am not a hardware engineer or anything of the sort. My laptop has a slide shutter over the webcam, but this obviously does nothing about the microphone. How d
by Eavolution 2y ago
I am not a hardware engineer or anything of the sort. My laptop has a slide shutter over the webcam, but this obviously does nothing about the microphone. How difficult/error prone would it be for the power signals to the microphone and camera to be individual wires/traces and have a physical switch that breaks the power or data connection physically? Surely these are very low voltage so the switch could be like the iphone mute switch?
- schroeding 2y agoThe Framework laptop does this for both microphone and webcam, and there are privacy focused Android phones which also have a microphone switch which cuts the power to the microphone. It's definitely possible.
- Pwngu 2y agoMy Framework 13 has this - 2 physical switches next to the camera. I would assume (but haven't checked), that they physically disconnect the camera/mic.
- deepsun 2y agoYes it disconnects power: https://youtu.be/k6AsIqAmpeQ?t=1021 https://youtu.be/k6AsIqAmpeQ?t=1021