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Right, but rewiring the microcircuitry in your sunglasses isn’t some afternoon affair, and, no matter your painting skills, painting over the light will be noticeable to some degree. Not only are the technical skills for both extraordinarily rare (especially to do properly), for someone to actually try is equally rare. Perhaps moreso.

Whi, you and I can argue back-and-forth about theoretical possibilities, the practical reality is that it’s so profoundly unlikely to ever happen, that it isn’t a reasonable thing to be concerned about. At least not right now.

As fun as both of those things can be, both together or separately, I wasn’t talking about blocking the camera, but, rather, accessing it illicitly

Thanks for the 90s flashback, though ;)

??? not sure how you got there

No, the issue was “can some hacker take control of my WebCam without me knowing? “

Not if it’s wired with a notification light in the way, I have suggested.

If you wanna hack your own device, whatever dude

How can you do that with malware?

As some hacker with a piece of malware, how do you propose to do that?

Tordesillas line

OK, you got me with this one. I consider myself reasonably well educated, but even I had to go look this one up and do a little reading. And even though I think I got the gist a bit, I don’t think I quite understand what you meant in the context of this conversation, lol.

I guess that, not being a European, the cultural impact of the statement is a bit lost on me— but if you were in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, and we were navigating some beef between the Tompkins Projects, Clinton Hill, and the south side of the Willy B, I’d fill you in.

That said, I’d be happy to work with you too!

I was just using WebCams as a contemporaneous technological example. Not to equate the two, as they are, as you have illustrated, extraordinarily different in their contextual applications.

These glasses creep me the absolute fuck out, and have for over a decade, ever since Google glasses first came out. I think they should just be outright outlawed, but that’s not the world we live in.

You know, I’m sure we’re both very intelligent people who have thought about this problem for a long time.

Instead of arguing, I think we should both focus on energies on working towards a collective solution.

(it sounds like a fun game of “darts“ when we both try to infiltrate each other’s systems, but played over a few drinks at a bar, some other time)

If you still don’t trust it, I would recommend a Band-Aid or a sticky note… WebCams are something I happen to use every day and still find very very useful. Black nail polish is far too permanent for me.

But you do you

Not every WebCam circuitry is designed with your safety and privacy in mind.

If it makes you feel better, cover it up.

If this is a nearly microscopic, integrated circuit, you understand that’s a difficult thing to master, especially if you’re trying to attack merely with software, remotely

If this is, say, the integrated WebCam in your laptop, a piece of malware can’t exactly do what you’re proposing

And, unless the physical owner of the device is, themselves, trying to undermine their own security, I don’t see the logic in what you’re proposing. However, it is technically possible. But that’s not exactly the point of what I’m saying.

So, yes, as the owner of my laptop, I could undermine the security of that simple circuitry, but I have no motivation to do so. And any remote attacker would only have the resource of software to do so, and would be limited by what software could do— which would be limited by the, presumably, uncorrupted physical circuitry.

Not if the power to the recording mechanism must run through the light. There is an electrically engineered way to make sure the light must be powered on before the recording mechanism if it is wired between the power supply and the electronics.

Nothing to hack. Just a wire/circuit and an LED.

That’s how the iSight camera in all MacBooks work. That camera cannot be powered on without first powering on the notification LED. It’s integrated into the circuit. Powering on the camera must first power on the LED, and there is no way around that. It’s physically impossible.

They just wanna make sure that these models don’t say anything mean about Trump

yes, I see now why you just said, “marketing”

lol

still, quite interesting

well, there ya go

lol, no kidding.

Do you have any more information on this? I’d like to know how the hell this happened.

It’s ok to say ‘picometer’

Yet big news!

First open White House Dinner…

Has it smashed up all of the bus stops yet?