Post #2438372
2026-02-06 06:28 UTC
@Slater450413@infosec.exchange Pretty sure that's an IR camera which is indeed used for facial recognition login. Covering it up with the flap would disable facial recognition, which is presumably why they don't cover it, but I definitely hear your privacy concerns.
One would expect the OS not to give unprivileged processes access to that video stream, and maybe that's how it works on Windows, but apparently not on Linux.
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@kraftnix@noc.social 2026-02-06 10:50
@jik@federate.social @Slater450413@infosec.exchange I am pretty sure you need to be part of the video group or superuser to access the video loopback devices on most Linux distros, but it probably varies across distributions.