Don_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 9 months agoTIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1852cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1852external-linkTIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 9 months agomessage-square150fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareBlaster MlinkfedilinkEnglish10•9 months agoDELL laptops are neat in that they let you disable all these in the firmware.
minus-squareThe PantserlinkfedilinkEnglish4•9 months agoEven neater if there is a hardware switch to enable/disable on the fly.
minus-squareBlaster MlinkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agoDell work laptops and all in ones have had a manual slide shutter for years.
minus-squareThe PantserlinkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoBut not mic, the mic and camera should have physical ways to disable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•9 months agoit is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to (old joke I know)
Don’t forget the mic
DELL laptops are neat in that they let you disable all these in the firmware.
Even neater if there is a hardware switch to enable/disable on the fly.
Dell work laptops and all in ones have had a manual slide shutter for years.
But not mic, the mic and camera should have physical ways to disable.
it is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to
(old joke I know)