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Re:The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam by undersuit on Monday April 11, 2016 @03:12PM (#11474308)
If you buy the business version of my webcam you get a plastic cover for $2 over the cost of the consumer variant. One day I might spend $15 for a cover: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I005TPS
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Re:The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam by krylon on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @12:50PM (#11489896)
On the one hand, for a price difference of $2, I would go for the version with the plastic cover.

On the other hand, with an external webcam, I can simply disconnect it. If you have a laptop built into a laptop that is not so easy to do. At least, you have to trust the laptop's manufacturer to do that, while a builtin plastic cover is so simple one does need to "trust" it; at the same time, you can't retrofit it on a laptop... :(

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