Notes from the article: they demonstrate it on a black macbook from 2008. They don't have a "modern" version of their disable-webcam-LED exploit. The victim t

Notes from the article: they demonstrate it on a black macbook from 2008. They don't have a "modern" version of their disable-webcam-LED exploit. The victim they talked to mentioned "she never saw the light on her laptop go on" — that doesn't mean it didn't, it just means she could have just not been looking for it. Ideally, your webcam LED will be wired with your webcam itself. For your webcam sensor to be powered up, the LED will be powered up as a physical requirement of sending power to the webcam sensor. Many lesser-engineered webcams have software controlled LEDs (kinect bar, generic egg-shaped webcams) that don't even take "hacks" or "malware" to disable LEDs—you just run "turn led off."