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Re:Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery by Rebelgecko on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:30PM (#17528466)
Previous hacks of the iSight cam involved rewriting the firmware of that separate microcontroller. IIRC there was also a delay at one point, so that it was possible to take a picture really fast before the LED turned on.
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Re:Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery by Udo_Schmitz on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:34AM (#17529580)
Concerned only pre-2009 models or earlier, needed physical access as well. AFAICR.
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Re:Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery by jsjohnst on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:06PM (#17533444)
Correct, since 2009 roughly, the sensor power was tied into the LED, so if the sensor had enough power to register an image, the LED would have to be on. Apple modified the circuitry specifically because of the old exploit.
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Re:Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery by saagarjha on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:41PM (#17528679)
Of course, the T-series processors were not a thing back then…
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