Learn a thing every day I guess. Nonetheless, is inconsequential to task at hand if you apply the "Rosemary Kennedy" method to the laptobotomy: activate the mic, jam that needle in the hole and wiggle it around until the girl can no longer sing, no activity is detected on the vu-meters and nothing is played back in the recording.

You have audio-video input sensors on all sort of programable devices nowadays, even some TVs can be turned into two way communication devices. That's a nice 1984ish vibe to ruin your late night matrimonial TV browsing.

sticking a needle in a MEMS microphone is just as effective, you just have to [find the damn thing, and] push the needle all the way through!

If brute force isn't working, you're just not using enough of it yet.