Don_Dickle to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agoTIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square146fedilinkarrow-up1851arrow-down16
arrow-up1845arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square146fedilink
minus-squareBlaster MlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoDELL laptops are neat in that they let you disable all these in the firmware.
minus-squareThe PantserlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoEven neater if there is a hardware switch to enable/disable on the fly.
minus-square@hushable@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoit is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to (old joke I know)
minus-squareBlaster MlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoDell work laptops and all in ones have had a manual slide shutter for years.
minus-squareThe PantserlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoBut not mic, the mic and camera should have physical ways to disable.
DELL laptops are neat in that they let you disable all these in the firmware.
Even neater if there is a hardware switch to enable/disable on the fly.
it is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to
(old joke I know)
Dell work laptops and all in ones have had a manual slide shutter for years.
But not mic, the mic and camera should have physical ways to disable.