TIL 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.
TIL 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.
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"I like Apple devices because they respect my privacy"
Except for the part where all that’s been preempted by organizational settings.
Out of the box, Apple does fairly well.
Gotta respect a company that tells the US government to pound sand with regularity (when they want a phone cracked)
"Apple gave data to law enforcement 90% of the time"
Apple's apparent privacy stance is just marketing
Aren't they required to by law?
Without a warrant no, but for the most part they do it willingly.
Gotta respect a company
No you don't
Fair point! Fuck 'em. Theres always more reasons to NOT respect a corporation than there are to respect them.
It’s worth noting that in recent MacBooks the camera can’t turn on if the led is off. It’s an electrical thing, not a software thing.
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An LED is pretty damn simple and there's no reason it would even be possible to control the voltage going to it. May as well worry about hackers finding a way to make a physical shutter transparent.
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I dont know why few manufacturers dont just put a simple sliding shutter over the camera.
There is an end user support concern with this. I prefer sliders, but users will put in tickets saying their camera doesn't work.
I still buy lenovo just for this professionally.
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My current work laptop has a shutter built in which heavily blurs the camera, so it's relatively obvious why your camera isn't working but you still get some level of privacy
that could work, or perhaps have a cut-out on the camera cover that blurs all light going in and has the words written on it "shutter closed" or something. Digital way built into the driver is probably easiest.