I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)
The goal with software like windows is to eventualy take away all control. If you can run unaproved software, you can’t even join the teams call. Then you will see stuff like this.
I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software
Just wait until webcams start cryptographically signing image frames to ensure their authenticity.
Point webcam at a screen, or maybe a white wall with a projector pointing at it
Joke’s on you - I do this already. Porn and all
tape, and worst case scenario: a hammer
Think Canon tried that years ago with some SLRs - expecting that tech will be the only thing that proves anything someday. Wonder if it’s panning out.
Wonder if it’s panning out.
Really depends on the lens.
Hehehe
Years ago, I’d laugh at this.
Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.
On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.
This, but it’s not a loop 😏
The real goal is to then charge the user $2.99 to block their camera from being turned on.
Make it an auction
“fuck, I don’t have enough money for park avenue”
Sorry, your camera is now on, better to put your pants on
Do it and you’d see my camera cover
I prefer the classic post it note personally.
I feel that a faulty webcam driver that causes a kernel panic would work best. They turn your camera on and you drop from the call.
All you would see is my camera cover, lol
I think Dell once patented a mechanical cover system for their laptops.
All the laptops I have owned over the last 10 years have a mechanical shutter to cover the camera. None have been Dell.
You willingly own a laptop that can open its own shutter?
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You like looking at the back of a piece of electrical tape?
All you would see is my floor and a pile of wires
My webcam falls off and I just leave it there
tbh I’d be more likely to want to turn it off
You’d get a pious, stating that someone paid 1.99 to turn your camera an. For just 5.99 you can make sure it stays off.
This could also be implemented as a bidding war like eBay.
This is like that libertarian/ancap copypasta.
Yknow one great thing that costs about 1.99 (one time cost)?
Those little plastic slidy bits that cover up the laptop webcam and mic.
It’s weird that people used to be concerened with covering their laptop camera, but people don’t care about their phone camera.
“Most of the time your phone is in your pocket” he says writing on his phone…
They can probably guess your shoe size and leg length using the accelerometer. Also if you’re right or left handed.
You can’t guess correctly someone’s shoe size and leg length using an accelerometer. There are factors that drastically change the results.
Enough data over time I bet you could. Get a couple drop recordings, arm swing, common heights of beds/desks/chairs, you could find it.
Would it be automated or easy? Hell no. But you can do it. We’ve discovered more with less
You could track when people piss.
Everyone’s bodies are all different in unique ways. Also some might have a limp, or crutches, prosthetics, different size feet, wider feet, extremely small feet(while being tall). There would never be enough data. Unless you were there in person measuring.
Well, you have angle of tge thigh and speed and time between strides, giving us stride length assuming their phone is in their pocket, which would be easy to tell. Then you have foot on floor over time and speed, which would give you appoximate shoe length depending on their foot fall. But you could guess that based on axis bounce/force. You could probably guess their weight and gender too.
Samsung health can track some crazy metrics from just the Galaxy watch. I wouldn’t be surprised what else they can accurately estimate. Pic of the data from a recent run.
i really miss pop-up cameras on phones.
good peace of mind knowing the fucker is tucked away inside.
Some laptops come with that built in, or you could use some scotch tape and a little square of paper for free
I used the sticky part of a post-it before I had a laptop with a built in slider
I use a small piece of blue painters tape
love my frameworks mic and camera hardware switches.
One of it’s greatest features.
Fortunately, browsers have safeguards against this sort of thing (activating the camera without user interaction)
…right?
Zuck always has a piece of tape over his camera when you see his laptop. That’s all you need to know.
I saw probably the same photo as you! The article wasn’t even about that, we just noticed it in the photo. I immediately went and taped over my camera.
TBF, dude has probably the entire world trying to hack him, the avergae person doesn’t have that high of a risk.
Granted he is a higher profile target but he likely has lots of cyber security people going over everything on that machine with a fine tooth comb. And he still has a piece of tape over the camera.
Both my work laptop and personal laptop have mechanical shutters that can only be opened by hand.
They’re both Thinkpads.
They hand those out at conventions too (or you can buy them, I guess). It’s basically just a small sticker that you can just stick over your shutterless camera and now it has a shutter.
The Thinkpads have shutters built in. It’s quite nice.
One of the main motivating factors for me to get a Lenovo.
Mine is a T14 G1. Work supplied a T15 G2. I like them, solid units.
I have both a t14 g1 and g3. With each generation, the keyboard gets more trash. I even tested out my friend’s new recent generation x1 carbon yoga and the keyboard was also bad. Lower travel and didn’t feel as solid.
Most Dell latitudes and precisions also have a physical shutter.
I love that feature. It makes me more comfortable around the computer because no one can look at me without my consent.
I’ve had a few Dell Latitudes, none of them had a shutter 🤔
Which series how long ago?
I doubt the 3000 series has them because they suck, but all the 5000 series laptops I have used have had a shutter. Granted, I’m only really referring to laptops that released within the last 7 years or so.
I currently have a latitude 5430 and a brand new precision 3490 and they both have a shutter, but that’s not too surprising considering that they look identical to each other.
Makes sense. I had a E6440, E7470, and 7490. The E6440 was a beast of a machine, and the E7470 fell off a 14 foot ladder and still survived, despite missing a corner… The NVMe drive was barely holding on 😅
Just last week we found a bug in our system in that if an user accepts a meet on pc while also having the phone app open, the meet is opened in both devices, - that alone could end very badly.
In my experience people click accept without reading or thinking, and usually remember this setting which they may have already done previously.
In any case all my cameras have physical blockers
Browsers and some operating systems.
It’s a fucking joke and so many of you are being smug with “not me!”
Not me!
Not me!
Half the userbase is on the spectrum, and cannot discern satire from a serious post.
Laddie, the whole Internet is going so to shit, that it’s hard to discern satire from real bullshit.
I just don’t plug a camera in
$4.99 to plug in their camera
Considering the implications for making that happen, that’s hella cheap.
But i thought everyone helicopters during meetings. How else am i supposed to meet my step goal
My camera has a cover 😂😂😂 I hope you like your screens pitch black because it’s the only thing you will see
Shit, I’d pay more than that each time.
Jokes on you, I got mic and cam on a physical USB-switch. So unless I go in “conference mode”, your attack is futile
