Post #2438376
2026-02-06 09:13 UTC
@Slater450413@infosec.exchange that’s common to most modern business-y windows laptops. That’s an IR cam that windows uses for with a presence detection. It’s not supposed to be visible to applications on windows, and because of that privilege separation it makes sense to not have it covered by the shutter. Otherwise you’d have to open the regular cam that’s accessible to unprivileged applications as well every time to log in using face recognition.
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@jaseg@chaos.social 2026-02-06 09:14
@Slater450413@infosec.exchange covering that cam with the privacy shutter would also silently disable lock on leave (presence detection screen lock), which would open up an unintuitive security footgun when someone expects their laptop to automat lock when they go away but forgets they closed their privacy shutter.