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gabbar says

richwicks says

gabbar says

He uses a school furnished pathetic chromebook; they are not allowed to use their own laptop. Thank you for the recommendations.

Place opaque tape over the camera, and if you have an old pair of headphones, cut off the end of the headphones near the plug, and short all the wires together, and plug it into the microphone port.

How will these measures help?

It'll teach the school to stay away from Chromebooks.

Onvacation says

gabbar says

richwicks says

gabbar says

He uses a school furnished pathetic chromebook; they are not allowed to use their own laptop. Thank you for the recommendations.

Place opaque tape over the camera, and if you have an old pair of headphones, cut off the end of the headphones near the plug, and short all the wires together, and plug it into the microphone port.

How will these measures help?

It'll teach the school to stay away from Chromebooks.

Gotcha.

Right now, some parents are not happy with the proposed 4 CRT lessons during next academic year.

gabbar says

richwicks says

gabbar says

He uses a school furnished pathetic chromebook; they are not allowed to use their own laptop. Thank you for the recommendations.

Place opaque tape over the camera, and if you have an old pair of headphones, cut off the end of the headphones near the plug, and short all the wires together, and plug it into the microphone port.

How will these measures help?

These devices being owned by the schools can be accessed by the schools at any time.

Plugging in a shorted out headphone plug will disable the built in microphone.

Placing tape over the camera makes it inaccessible unless you remove it.

I work at companies where it's compulsory to have your cameras taped over. Don't trust your skool to care about your kid's privacy. It might seem paranoid - TRUST ME, it's not. It's absolutely not. There's a reason there's no hard switches for these anymore. It's trivial enough to have an LED light up when (and only when) the device is being powered, but for SOME REASON these aren't even included. Would literally cost less than 1 penny for the bill of materials.

I put Gorilla glue on the camera on my Laptop. All video from the camera just look like a yellowish distorted haze.

Tenpoundbass says

I put Gorilla glue on the camera on my Laptop. All video from the camera just look like a yellowish distorted haze.

Well that's fine, if you never want to remove it.

richwicks says

Tenpoundbass says

I put Gorilla glue on the camera on my Laptop. All video from the camera just look like a yellowish distorted haze.

Well that's fine, if you never want to remove it.

They sell little adhesive covers that you can stick over laptop camera that allow you to open and close it if it didn't have that option built in.

Tenpoundbass says

I put Gorilla glue on the camera on my Laptop. All video from the camera just look like a yellowish distorted haze.

I wonder if one could build a device so when the camera is accessed, the hacker just sees a video loop of Jeff Toobin doing his thing.

HeadSet says

I wonder if one could build a device so when the camera is accessed, the hacker just sees a video loop of Jeff Toobin doing his thing.

I like the way you think..lol