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I'll ask again. Is it your belief that the claim in this article, that the FBI can defeat the LED indicator on every popular laptop camera, accurately describes reality?

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I think that some webcam indicator lights are vulnerable to remote disabling. Although it is certainly possible that some are not, I and most other users have no way of knowing which lights are reliable, and which ones are vulnerable.

As such, I put a Band-Aid over my webcam.

Now if only I could figure out an equally easy way to reliably disable my laptop microphone without opening up the laptop and cutting the cable.

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