Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down13
arrow-up1204arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square121fedilink
minus-squareBlaster M@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoDELL laptops are neat in that they let you disable all these in the firmware.
minus-squareThe Pantser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoEven neater if there is a hardware switch to enable/disable on the fly.
minus-squarehushable@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoit is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to (old joke I know)
DELL laptops are neat in that they let you disable all these in the firmware.
Even neater if there is a hardware switch to enable/disable on the fly.
it is best to switch to Linux so the webcam doesn’t work even if you wanted to
(old joke I know)