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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by krackers on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:14PM (#22174085)
>I could only conclude that it was hacked

That seems like a bit of a leap. Isn't it more likely to have been a software glitch of some sort?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by the_pwner224 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:18PM (#22174139)
Camera activated for a split second every once in a while, with no apparent relation to what I was using the phone for at that moment.

And it hasn't happened again since I reinstalled the OS two months ago (though admittedly it took ~4 months to start happening the first time).

Doesn't seem like a very big leap to me.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your ... by barrkel on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:46AM (#22179196)
I could imagine some app (background service? Unsure) iterating through available devices and the OS or system services being a bit too eager to initialize devices upon iteration.

(Not saying that's what happened, but I can easily hypothesize a scenario where this only happens after a while, after some specific app is installed or configured.)

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