Should You Cover Your Laptop Camera When It’s Not in Use?
Should You Cover Your Laptop Camera When It’s Not in Use?
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Should You Cover Your Laptop Camera When It’s Not in Use? - Consumer Reports
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My laptop has a build in camera cover that can be slid over the camera. I wonder if this is some sort of trick, like the cover is actually transparent from the inside.
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I cover mine against my own mistake - just in case I accidentally turn on (or leave on) a camera during some call.
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When I saw Schmuckerberg using tape over the camera I knew we should all be doing that
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Get a laptop with hardware switches for the camera and microphone, tbh
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Got any examples? I found that Purism and Framework have them, are there others on the market right now?
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I have a framework. I'm not aware of any others though. But I do remember that physical wifi switches were common on HPs back about 15-20 years ago.
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Never seen one I'd actually trust for the mic, but I've seen a lot of Lenovos that have sliding covers for the camera.
I'm a little reluctant to put an adhesive slider on my MacBook because it closes pretty tight and I'm afraid the extra thickness would create a pressure point and cause damage over time.
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It's rare for laptop to come with hardware switches for microphones but some of them are built with camera switches
Have seen a Dell Latitude 5400 (I think) with an hardware camera cover
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Unfortunately, tape can’t mute the microphones.
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a microphone jack with a cut cable, if you insist
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In our scenario we are thinking about someone trying to sneak on you. But a jack mic cut off is not removing the internal microphone just putting the source to a different one. So if this person has access to your PC he coule surely access other sensors than the cut off jack
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Article does suggest a workaround for that too. Can't put everything into a headline.
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