I am the outwitter!

I mean, if we want to get pedantic, nothing it's stopping a virus from bringing it's own drivers or a whole ass windows vm to pass the usb over ( i rememver the was something of the sort for windows using a windows xp machine for a botnet) It's as always just a matter of how willing are you.

One liner for fixing driver issue, sounds great
- Still faster than snaps /s
If any of you pure Linux guys ever get a virus that installs windows, that's going to be the funniest shit ever.
- Pipes a script from the web in bash whitout checking:
  Reboots to see the windows logo come up
- I mean, honestly I'd just be pissed I had to reinstall, there will be no loss (or minimal, just whatever I torrented in the last few days, important things get backed up immediately). Maybe 4hr tops including data transfer to the new install.
- They'd be looking like that one chick from the 2016 election that screamed Noooooo!
- That would be a very interesting virus.
That sort of reminds me of the FBI patching compromised systems after they take over a botnet.

My infosec skills are far too sophisticated for infiltration (small piece of black tape)

Work laptop, it stays closed, and I use my two screens connected to it. After Covid, everyone wanted video calls. Nope, I'm not getting the laptop out from the back of the desk for you.
Anyone hacking the webcam can get a view of the base of the laptop.
You can get a whole sheet of tiny circle stickers for like, a dollar. I've used them for a decade or more now!
- Yeah but the tape also covers the shitty microphone next to the camera.
  Beat that, circlecuck!!
lots of the tapes ppl use for it are translucent tho lmao
Same (dremel)

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The safest laptops to use: The old ThinkPads still holding on through hopes and dreams.

forcing hackers to do free tech support to scam you.

No webcam.

But some spam mails think i have one.

I think I saw videos of you last week on one of those revenge porn sites. You were going to town on yourself. I’m guessing you didn’t send the bitcoin?

2K webcam resolutions

we only do 360p here, sir!

Get a laptip with a real hardware switch for the cam and the mic. Best peace of mind knowing that they're really off. Neither tape, nor the non-electrical built-in plastic sliders do that.

You still have to trust the manufacturer that it really turns the webcam off, not just the webcam light.
- It probably can be inspected
- Unless you have a framework, and can remove the bezel and confirm that they work!
  I'm really happy with my new framework's switches, I actually trust them for once! I went to find a thing on how they work to post here:
  "(They) saw the mention of the switches and that they are optical somewhere, but can’t remember to quote the source.
  As far as I can tell each switch is a U channel with a light emitter on one side, and a detector on the other. The part you move on the bezel just breaks the light beam. This creates a electronic on/off hardware switch.
  Using an actual physical switch would tend to be a source of an intermittent connection over time. Hence the use of optical technology. Same thought process for the screen open switch being a Hall Effect sensor, which can work through a cover."
- Hardware switches physically cut power to the device in question and you can take it apart and verify. There is no trust involved.
I'd like a proper hardware light. Something physical such that the camera cannot send the image back to the board without the light being on. And yes, a physical cutout switch would definitely be nice.
Either buy a sticker cover with a slider or get lenovo laptops that have that builtin; even though the slider is confusionary since when it's closed it's a red dot. Im sure that there must be other brands that integrate it as well
- The problem with those is that it's often just a piece of plastic, so the microphone isn't cut off from power. The webcam sees noching, but sound is unaffected.
- That’s how my Dell work machine is. The switch slides some red plastic over the lens.

I don't even have a webcam on my desktop. My Thinkpad has a sliding cover on its webcam that stays closed when I'm not using it.

The internal microphone is on the same board as the webcam in laptops.

I keep my webcam unplugged when not in use.

Doctors hate him for this one simple trick!
I simply don't own a webcam. Last time I actually had a use for one was sometime around 2003. That said, I'm still fucked because I made the mistake of buying a phone that uses the camera as the light sensor.
- I keep a webcam because I trust my personal computer far more than my phone when it comes to private comms.

My WebCam has such low resolution I could argue that that’s anybody in the picture. Go ahead.

Low res webcam, massive north facing window behind me (australia), i make people pay dearly for wasting my time with meetings

What about Intel ME, Microsoft Pluton, the one for AMD. The secret chips that have direct access to your hardware. Basically a blackbox. Same with cellphones. SoC.

the one for AMD
It's called PSP (Platform Security Processor), iirc
And to answer your question:
Old-ass thinkpad as daily driver: Acquired
RPI Pico: Acquired
SOIC Chip programming clip: Acquired
Motivation to get off my ass and actually flash libreboot and me-cleaner: In progress...

CIA Operative: that's the neat part, I know how to make them work

So that means I get a working webcam! It's a win-win! /j
- We get a working webcam. For about the 30 seconds it takes you to fap

- Framework is thinkpad2
System76 has some machines with hardware camera killswitches too. Big fan of Framework's open-source hardware and ~~firmware~~ microcontroller firmware though.
- Their firmware isn't opensource. At least not fully. Only the EC firmware has been opensourced, that is the firmware for the micro-controller responsible for the battery, keyboard, buttons, LEDs, sensors, and so on...
  The boot firmware, responsible for getting the CPU and hardware in a bootable state, is absolutely proprietary. There is initial support for one specific framework motherboard in coreboot, a partially libre boot firmware, but it's very new and I don't know exactly what is and isn't supported...

I use tape

btw
- and it has flames on it

Man I remember having to buy a Cisco pcmcia WiFi card for my laptop to be able to support my collages CHAP auth to be able to get WiFi on campus

I used to have to use a USB adapter on my laptop because the built in one was turned off by default and had a Windows only software switch to enable it.

You can't spy on me through my webcam

I don't have a webcam

With non-working drivers, you effectively don’t! Win-win

wait are there still webcams that don't work? I've never used them apart from whatever was recommended for 3d printer monitoring and they worked fine.

yeah, I haven't had issues getting a webcam to work in years, just plug and go

You can just write some custom selinux rules to block access. It is pretty simple.

I have a physical switch on my laptop. Physically disconnected USB device as far as Linux is concerned.
That's still software. Unless selinux has a hidden feature where it can physically sever a data connection.
- Well unless the full system is compromised it should be pretty secure. It is from the NSA after all.
  I was kind of joking though

hehe camerw blocking laptop

Pop the bezel and disconnect the cable when not in use.

I try to think this wherever I bemoan the lack of IPU4 support

Don't you mean the oux?

modprobe this

Couldn't find anything with less pixels, please save to disk and remove resolution yourself ❤️

The quality seems ok

I have it disabled in bios and electric tape over it