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A comment on Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver for Linux. Parent comment
The market does care.
People want: hardware kill switches.
They want to cut their camera. (I've seen tape many times)
They want to mute their microphone for real.
Even non-nefarious "on-screen" mute buttons are subject to abuse.
For instance, in webex the conference host can unmute one or all of other people's mute buttons remotely. (To be clear there is a use case for this)
I wonder how many apps are listening even while mute is on. I would expect many of them.
and then there are exploits, which are lower probability but can do much more damage.
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The market does care.
People want: hardware kill switches.
They want to cut their camera. (I've seen tape many times)
They want to mute their microphone for real.
Even non-nefarious "on-screen" mute buttons are subject to abuse.
For instance, in webex the conference host can unmute one or all of other people's mute buttons remotely. (To be clear there is a use case for this)
I wonder how many apps are listening even while mute is on. I would expect many of them.
and then there are exploits, which are lower probability but can do much more damage.