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Why can't you make a hardware switch for the microphone too? Both the PinePhone and Librem 5 have this.

I would like to see more and more of these physical kill switches, hopefully kind of like the silent switches on my iPhone, but maybe with little sliding locks to keep them in position.

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There used to be a hardware switch for WiFi on laptops not long ago. But being "always connected" took precedence over privacy. Same can be said with microphone and voice assistants.

IDK, my laptop still has a button to disable the radios, but it's on F8 and implemented in firmware (or software?) not hardware.

I think there's a pretty healthy market for privacy/security/control-oriented hardware.

Purism's Librem laptops have hardware kill switches for the radios (wifi, bluetooth), and the camera / mic https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

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