Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by solarkraft on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:35PM (#23797878)

You want your equipment to be verifiably secure?

Boy, wait until you find about what's possible manipulating PCB or processor designs (the Bloomberg fiction piece "The big Hack" illustrates what would be possible with just PCB manipulation). Or firmware or anything else proprietary running with elevated rights (normal ones are already enough to cause a lot of damage on most systems).

All you can do is reduce attack surface.

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Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by saagarjha on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:28PM (#23798585)

A fiction piece isn't a great demonstration of anything, really.

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Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by waterhouse on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:52PM (#23798740)

Well, what got it declared fiction was "a broad search doesn't turn up good evidence that this has been done", rather than "experts agree this is obviously impossible". So the reaction to the piece did demonstrate something.

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