Post #2438387
2026-02-06 10:13 UTC
@Slater450413@infosec.exchange That's the regular IR camera on modern (especially business) laptops. Used for authentication, eg. windows hello
Weird that the cover is not affecting the IR camera part on the Yoga, it does cover it on the Thinkpad L14 G5. I didn't need VLC to open it, it works with the KDE built-in camera app "Kamoso".
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@agowa338@chaos.social 2026-02-06 10:26
@exec@furry.engineer @Slater450413@infosec.exchange A lot of vendors build it that way actually. Basically all that do not sell into VS-NfD context build it that way. The device is hidden on a driver basis within windows so that software cannot access its video feed. They would rather decrease the amount of support calls for people trying to use windows hello while having that privacy thingy covering it than actually providing privacy...
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@galaxis@mastodon.infra.de 2026-02-06 21:26
@exec@furry.engineer Same here on a T14 G6 - its camera switch will turn off both main and IR camera (or well, at least their respective video streams, the camera devices are still there). @Slater450413@infosec.exchange