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Twitter the software wasn’t hacked. Twitter the company was hacked. If your employees do bad things with your company’s system, that’s on you.
But also not hacked in the typical sense that is associated with that word most of the time.
 
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The macbook’s camera cannot be powered without the green active light illuminating. It was designed that way. Similar to how a microwave cannot turn on without the door closed.

I looked into it a couple months back when MacBook camera security was discussed. I couldn’t find any articles where someone’s macbook camera was accessed. But if it gives Snowden or Zuckerberg, or yourself solace to cover your camera - have at it.
The thing is, a nefarious actor doesn't necessarily need constant access to the feed. What if they're only recording 1 frame every hour? You'll very likely miss the green LED, but those couple frames throughout the day could reveal a lot.
 
What would we be doing in front of our computers that requires tape over the camera?!? Well, I guess it would be pretty embarrassing if a hacker caught me very intensely playing Word Jumble.

Oh yeah, and DAN IS THE MAN!
 
Can we stop saying "Apple hacked", please? It creates so much unnecessary worry and confusion.

Apple wasn't hacked, neither was Apple's Twitter - it was Twitter that was "hacked", and the attacker added a tweet to Apple's feed. Apple did nothing wrong, along with the other 40 or so accounts that suffered the same.

Sadly this is the future of journalism. A bunch of uneducated “college graduates”. They don’t understand the English language enough to write content accurately.

This is why mainstream media as a whole is going down the tubes.
 
This is a fallacy and very misleading. Even Zuckerberg who uses macbooks exclusively, covers his with tape 100% of the time. It's not difficult to access a camera that is connected to a network.
My corporate assigned hp zbook has a sliding metal cover.
It's a convenient design.
 
Sadly this is the future of journalism. A bunch of uneducated “college graduates”. They don’t understand the English language enough to write content accurately.

This is why mainstream media as a whole is going down the tubes.
Tech journalism is dead... and has been for at least a decade. Tech blogs are nothing more than marketeers-for-hire. I find it interesting how some of the people now defending Apple and clarifying what was "hacked" or not, were the same that embraced the clickbait articles on Zoom being "hacked" and suggested using Facetime instead. ;)
 
Tech journalism is dead... and has been for at least a decade. Tech blogs are nothing more than marketeers-for-hire. I find it interesting how some of the people now defending Apple and clarifying what was "hacked" or not, were the same that embraced the clickbait articles on Zoom being "hacked" and suggested using Facetime instead. ;)
What’s even more interesting are the comments about those defending Apple. There shouldn’t even need to be clarification of what was hacked, if one even read the original article. Which bloggers were in the fictitious universe you just created?
 
My friend in Slovakia just fell for a bitcoin scam from a email or FB link and paid 250 € from his CC to open a bitcoin account. One of those "we'll double your money schemes".
They wanted all kinds of personal information including id and copy of a bill until he figured out something is not on the level, major identity theft. Getting all kinds of scam calls now.
He says he talked to someone and he wants to close his bitcoin account and they will refund his deposit on his card. I told him don't hold your breath. He'll probably have to change his phone number.

Wow. Hope he gets it sorted.
 
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I love how Tim Apple's most important task is to make a laptop where you'll break it by using a privacy protecting camera cover. Bravo Genius!

No attempt missed to badmouth TC. As if he is building or designing these things himself.
 
What would we be doing in front of our computers that requires tape over the camera?!? Well, I guess it would be pretty embarrassing if a hacker caught me very intensely playing Word Jumble.

Oh yeah, and DAN IS THE MAN!

Yeah who needs privacy anyway, right? I’m sure you also leave the unlocked front door open at night. :)
 
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Yeah who needs privacy anyway, right? I’m sure you also leave the unlocked front door open at night. :)

In the same breath, I’m sure you and others leave your smartphone cameras unblocked, and all your microphones open and listening - including all the same devices such as HomePod, Echo etc.

There’s a big difference between this and leaving your house door unlocked.
 
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Can we stop saying "Apple hacked", please? It creates so much unnecessary worry and confusion.

Apple wasn't hacked, neither was Apple's Twitter - it was Twitter that was "hacked", and the attacker added a tweet to Apple's feed. Apple did nothing wrong, along with the other 40 or so accounts that suffered the same.

Yes, more click-bait headlines. So sad and irresponsible, or is it just ignorance and lack of understanding?
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The trouble with those green indicator LED’s is that they are triggered by software, not hardware. Software can be hacked, Apple. There’s a reason the macs in the background of your ARM announcement video had their cameras covered. You could at least be honest about that fact and engineer in a solution yourself.

Apparently, at least with the latest Macs (after 2008), the green light is entirely hardware-driven, activated when the camera is activated, with no software intervention. Find evidence to the contrary and I'll stand corrected.

From Apple:

In particular...
The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on.
 
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Yeah who needs privacy anyway, right? I’m sure you also leave the unlocked front door open at night. :)
Of course I leave my front door unlocked, just in case Dan wants to stop by and have a beer. Because, you know, Dan is the Man!
 
It would be nice if we can start calling people by their proper name. It's Tim Cook. Tim Apple sounds just so damn immature.
It’s a joke. Trump called him that once and so it lives on.
To be fair, after the president addressed him that way (because he couldn’t remember Tim Cook’s name), Mr. Cook changed his name on Twitter to “Tim Apple” in jest (seems to have changed back at some point). I get tired of the endless use of “Tim Crook” or “Timmy”, both of which do, indeed, sound immature (such schoolyard derogatory nicknaming / name calling seems particularly popular with one segment of society), but I find “Tim Apple” a bit endearing.
 
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Can we stop saying "Apple hacked", please? It creates so much unnecessary worry and confusion.

Apple wasn't hacked, neither was Apple's Twitter - it was Twitter that was "hacked", and the attacker added a tweet to Apple's feed. Apple did nothing wrong, along with the other 40 or so accounts that suffered the same.

This. I often think of MR when Jobs contrasts bloggers and journalists during one of his All Things D interviews.
 
Apple said that customers should instead look for a green indicator light to know when the webcam is active

The cat's already out of the bag. That just lets you know that your privacy was just invaded, how is that better than preventing it in the first place with a sliding camera cover?

Finally, I tested it myself on my 2015 mbp, running imagesnap from the commandline takes a photo and the green light blinks on and off in less than a second. It's easily something missable.
 
The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on. This is how you can tell if your camera is on

The camera literally cannot be on without you knowing about it.
 
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