Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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-square137fedilinkarrow-up1852arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1847arrow-down1external-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@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square137fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoDELL laptops are neat in that they let you disable all these in the firmware.
minus-squareThe Pantser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·3 months agoEven neater if there is a hardware switch to enable/disable on the fly.
minus-squarehushable@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·3 months agoit is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to (old joke I know)
minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoDell work laptops and all in ones have had a manual slide shutter for years.
minus-squareThe Pantser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoBut not mic, the mic and camera should have physical ways to disable.
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.
it is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to
(old joke I know)
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.