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The worst that it occur is you do things that can be viewed as porn, and put onto a porn site. So far, no one got into court from a webcam recording. However, steeling your evil plan of doom from your e-mail conversation, is considered valid evidence. And in most countries, recording without consent or warrant (again police doing it) is not considered invalid as well in court. Nothing says that the person going after you, dressed like you, and make it look like you, did something.
Beside small claim court, judges don't care about footages not recoded by police, as in society, police is considered a trusted source. Meanwhile, I'm sure a plastic shutter that comes to $1.62 each is an unhackable, universally applicable, and trivial solution. That would be a truly 'unhackable' solution. My question remains, though - is the 'kill switch' really a hardware interrupt to power, as in a circuit breaking switch. The only way an OS will ever become permanently immune to exploitation would be if it also never was developed beyond just resolving security flaws. Point is, it can happen, and probably will again.
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Apparently, escalation of privileges exploitation has happened to Windows 10 at least once in the past. To overcome things like the notification LED coming on, admin access is probably needed anyway. As for administrator privileges, that's usually the first step in any major hack of software.
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In that scenario, though, using a hack to defeat a software based 'kill switch' so that the webcam is always on despite what the switch (and perhaps even the current app used) shows, would make the switch a complete placebo and useless. I wonder if this isn't really a default, or is only for known 3rd party apps using the camera or its API? I really don't use the camera on this laptop for anything, so I don't have anything other than the included app to go by.Īs for your last point, this may seem true, but a valid point that HP offers is that the switch is to help prevent an unintentional exhibition via your webcam, which you otherwise do intend to use. I even checked the expanded tray icon popup, and nothing. That second point - I just fired up my camera app (to a dead black image, because I use said physical shutter), and nothing shows up in my system tray. Proving that an audio recording is your voice is much harder, and the quality of the audio on most of these devices is fairly low, often not on par with the current HD cameras in just about everything. Also, it is much easier to prove what is seen on a camera as being you, for the sake of abuse, like explicit images or video, or anything compromising. However, for the random opportunist voyeur, being watched doesn't really require a specific target.
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Your first point is pretty observant and valid, if someone is targeting you specifically for surveillance, as they'll know how to use information you speak around your computer. I have yet to hear about a malware that does this.
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A program needs to do extensive amount of work code wise to enable the device behind your back, and needs administrator privileges. However, if you want to disable your webcam and/or microphone, the best way which applies everywhere, is to simply disable the device in Device Manager. Windows 10 inform you via a system tray icon, when your microphone or webcam is being used by anything. Your microphone will hurt you more than your webcam. Maybe someone here has delved into this more, or Linus could even poke his nose into the situation. Other makers have also been doing this more lately, and you can buy little stick on shutters that are very effective and quite cheap (I recently added them to my 2 HP laptops that lacked such obscuring hardware). I found this especially interesting as HP's own all-in-one systems have been showing up with a simple, physical obscurement of the webcam, either in the form of a moving module or a simple plastic shutter. If the latter is true, it ends up being like a lot of previous 'physical switch' solutions in systems that supposedly offer a higher level of security than pure software switching. I wonder if it is actually a pure hardware power circuit interrupt to the webcam, or is really a hardware switch that is really just supplying a signal to software switching the webcam off.
I can't find a good teardown for the Spectre X360, which Linus reviewed, that shows how the switch is really integrated into the system. They proclaim it a hardware solution, and 'unhackable'. I recently saw an ad from HP touting their 'Webcam Kill Switch' on their newer systems.
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