Comment by franky47
6 years ago
No amount of security features can rival a small piece of black tape over the camera.
It also makes crypto-phishing (you've been recorded doing X, pay Y BTC) much harder to fall for. Where software could (and eventually will) be compromised, the attacker would have to physically access the machine to remove that tape.
One assumes that this activates the green camera light? It's not perfect but I can't imagine not noticing that it had come on.
Not that it helps if you're, ahem, in the middle of something when the nefarious 3rd party opens the line.
AFAIK the light is controlled by the camera's firmware. So unless someone is able to hack that, the light will always turn on with the camera. That said, even Zuckerberg has sticky tape over his camera.