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Re:Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonst... by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:30AM (#42262727)
…until it isn’t: my ThinkPad P1 Gen 6 has the camera cover, yes - but it doesn’t have a cover for the depth-sensing camera, only the RGB cam, even though userland applications can get imaging data from that camera just as easily - which is potentially a bigger security issue: I imagine you could reconstruct my facial shape from the data and build a dummy head to get into my iPhone/iPad via FaceID.

(No, I’m not actually worried about this, I’m far too unimportant for anyone to make a targeted attack against)

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