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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by awesomerobot on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:29AM (#12505088)
>If there is a malfunction with the LED, then the camera should also not work.

Many would argue that this is the more flawed design.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by Kadin on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:21AM (#12506909)
It seems like a "fail safe" to me. The current design is a bit closer to a "fail deadly" in that it creates a mode that's the worst-case from the user's perspective: the camera works but the indicator doesn't.

It is probably worse to have an unreliable indicator light than it is to not have any indicator light at all.

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Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam by Artemis2 on Thursday September 15, 2016 @09:44AM (#12506032)
Reminds me of this: https://9to5mac.com/2016/02/05/error-53-iphone-6
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