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

Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by kumarvvr on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:10PM (#23798856)

There are a number of ways to do it, other than a sliding latch, in case Apple wants to avoid adding thickness to the screen.

1. Electrically blurred glass. 2. Polarizing filters 3. Power kill switch, in hardware. But I guess Applw will balk at this too.

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Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by rubber_duck on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:38PM (#23799000)

A peace of plastic in front of the camera is really simple to understand and trust - the rest you need to know about tech and trust someone did it correctly.

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Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by Jweb_Guru on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:55PM (#23799064)

None of those have the advantage of (for the end user) extremely obviously blocking light.

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Re:Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera by pfranz on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:31PM (#23799221)

I'm pretty confident after the 2008 camera exploit they engineered the camera to wire the active light directly to the camera power source, which I think is what you're talking about with #3. #1 and #2 seem kind of irrelevant to me. Unless it manually operated (in that case, why not use a physical switch?) it behaves the same as the green indicator light, relies on #3, and after its turned on it's already capturing.

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