You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen when mic is off

Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis... by andmarios on Thursday April 14, 2022 @05:37AM (#31024842)

Quite interestingly the only laptops I've seen with such a feature (button to mute and LED to display the mic is muted) are huawei's matebooks. Some of them also have the camera under a keyboard button, extremely weird angle but when the camera is hidden you can be 100% sure you are not being recorded.

The mic mute button of course works at the OS level but still...

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Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis... by yencabulator on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:24PM (#31032796)

https://frame.work/ hardware toggles disconnect the built-in microphone and camera from the USB bus.

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Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis... by zauguin on Thursday April 14, 2022 @06:21AM (#31025042)

Also controlled by the OS, but many ThinkPad's have such a button and light too.

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