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Re:Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be re... by bayindirh on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:40AM (#25743579)
IIRC Apple hardwires camera LED to enable pin for some time now. You can't even disable the LED even if you tamper with the camera firmware.

Old Logitech Pro 9000 is the exact opposite. You can control the LED independently of the camera state.

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Re:Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be re... by ncmncm on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:38AM (#25744955)
We have been over this before: if you want to take surreptitious images on Apple, you operate the camera at a low enough duty cycle that it doesn't look like it's on.

It could have been wired to indicate recording for a minimum of a second after each image capture. But it wasn't.

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Re:Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be re... by shaicoleman on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:45AM (#25744015)
Same with the Logitech Brio. You can turn off the LED while recording.
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