• Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Absolutely, unless you’re lucky enough to have a laptop with a Physical killswitch on your Webcam + Mic module, then it’s not needed since flipping the Switch physically kills power to the Camera module’s USB header.

    Framework Laptops have this Feature.

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      My Asus has one and I didn’t know about it and FOR YEARS I thought my webcam was broken- it wasn’t even showing up in the device manager. I bought an external webcam, because I figured it was pooched and I had to use a webcam sometimes, but not often enough to care into looking to get it repaired.

      This is a story about me being dumb.

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        Maybe that’s why many PCs these days don’t have them, and also why they don’t have network kill-switches anymore. People just got confused and thought something was broken.

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          22 hours ago

          I’m glad I’m not the only one. I’ve since been issued new laptops for work that have physical covers built in and I’m a big fan of those, though I know it doesn’t disable a mic.