(July 17, 2017 at 9:38 am)Tiberius Wrote:(July 17, 2017 at 6:44 am)pocaracas Wrote: Why cover your webcam at all?
Isn't the LED hardwired to turn on when the camera is powered? You'll know if someone is using it without your permission.
No, that would be the smart thing to do. The LED in almost all cases is controlled by software.
Really?.... software?
[poca googles this]
indeed... amazing!
Still.... meh...
"According to this standard, the LED indicator light is controlled by the host software. The UVC utilities that come with Linux allow you to control this light directly with a command-line tool, being able to turn off the light while the camera is on.
To hack this on Windows appears to require a filter driver."
"USB has lots of interesting features. It's designed with the idea that a person without root/administrator access may still want to plug in a device and use it. Therefore, there is the idea of "user-mode" drivers, where a non-administrator can nonetheless install drivers to access the USB device."
Cool... now if only those hackers could get software to run on my machine... what are the odds?
(July 17, 2017 at 9:38 am)Tiberius Wrote: Besides, if you are distracted you will not notice it, and that's often when you are at your most vulnerable (e.g. naked, getting dressed, etc.)
Haha... and they're always watching, so they know when to turn the webcam on.... oh wait!
