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.
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But also not hacked in the typical sense that is associated with that word most of the time.
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!
Oh yeah, and DAN IS THE MAN!
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.
My corporate assigned hp zbook has a sliding metal cover.
It's a convenient design.
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?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.
No attempt missed to badmouth TC. As if he is building or designing these things himself.
Yeah who needs privacy anyway, right? I’m sure you also leave the unlocked front door open at night.
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.
Apple Warns About MacBook Webcam Cover
In other words, don't be a dummy and keep us and other, much darker forces from watching you when we want...
In other words, don't be a dummy and keep us and other, much darker forces from watching you when we want...
That is not what Apple is saying. Don’t buy into tinfoil hat conspiracy.
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Yes, more click-bait headlines. So sad and irresponsible, or is it just ignorance and lack of understanding?
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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:
Don't close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the camera - Apple Support
Closing your Mac laptop with a camera cover on it might damage your display. Designed to protect your privacy, Mac laptops have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.
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It’s a joke. Trump called him that once and so it lives on.
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!Yeah who needs privacy anyway, right? I’m sure you also leave the unlocked front door open at night.
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.
This. I often think of MR when Jobs contrasts bloggers and journalists during one of his All Things D interviews.
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.