Don_Dickle to Today I LearnedEnglish • 28 days 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-square149arrow-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 LearnedEnglish • 28 days agomessage-square149
minus-squareThe PantserlinkEnglish3•28 days agoEven neater if there is a hardware switch to enable/disable on the fly.
minus-square@hushablelinkEnglish10•28 days agoit is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to (old joke I know)
minus-squareBlaster MlinkEnglish2•28 days agoDell work laptops and all in ones have had a manual slide shutter for years.
minus-squareThe PantserlinkEnglish3•28 days agoBut not mic, the mic and camera should have physical ways to disable.
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.