5 Nov
2020
5 Nov
'20
8 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:45:57 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
Beginning in Dell's 2021 laptop models they are providing hardware-based "privacy buttons" to disable microphone and camera support.'
If they really were “hardware-based”, you wouldn’t need a software driver for them. What’s wrong with a physical on/off switch on the power wire? No chance of any software “bug”† circumventing that ... †Because of course the fact that the cutoff could be bypassed somewhere in the depths of some firmware blob was entirely unintentional, and will be fixed in an update sometime, we promise.