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2026-02-06 10:17 UTC

@jaseg@chaos.social I totally get they want to keep support calls down (I don't blame them for that and makes sense). I guess I find it a little more non-negotiable that they could at least blip the activity LED when there's activity on the bus at the hardware level instead of needing consumers to read developer docs. I'm comfortable and capable of doing the research but I until now, I didn't realise I even needed to. I had, incorrectly in hindsight, assumed privacy screen meant privacy and activity LED meant activity which is a pretty normal presumption for any regular person.

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@jaseg@chaos.social 2026-02-06 10:22

@Slater450413@infosec.exchange I think their design is sound, but it’s rude that they didn’t consider how it interacts with linuxes. I agree that an activity indicator, similar to how faceID is handled on apple phones, would be useful. From a security perspective, a more fail-safe design would handle the image processing inside the IR camera module and only present a binary “go/no go” sensor signal to the OS similar to how fingerprint readers work.

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