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If you don't have root, and sometimes even if you do, then you cannot be entirely sure. That's why hardware shutters and physical disconnects are a thing.


If you have root you still cannot turn on the camera without the physical light turning on, and I believe you’d need at least a kernel exploit to disable the screen indicator for the microphone.




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