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Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by zdragnar on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:27PM (#23795342)
The fact that they worked at all is an indication that something similar may work in the future. It's not like apple has never had a regression in software.
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Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by NovemberWhiskey on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:41PM (#23795512)
Gruber has an article about this; he mentions someone who is a former Apple engineer saying it's now implemented entirely in hardware.

https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams

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Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by gist on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:34PM (#23795423)
Risk to the average apple customer is? Do you think that most people need to worry about this? Point Apple is making is it's not needed for the vast majority of their users and if you feel better use a piece of paper.

So let's stipulate it can happen (because well it can happen). That would take both someone being targeted en masse (prior to apple having a fix in place) and it making a difference to the person or people it happened to. Is that really a big enough risk to spend time worrying about?

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