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		oakwhiz on Feb 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yaho... What we need are hardware switches which physically disconnect power and data from the camera and microphone.

pera on Feb 27, 2014 [–]

afaik laptop webcams are usb, and mics are just two wires.. I always wanted to use the useless bluetooth switch of my laptop to turn-off my cam and mic, it seems pretty trivial

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