Putting tape over your laptop camera

>putting tape over your laptop camera
>not just disconnecting it from the board and tearing out the microphones

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What if you use it occasionally for business and pleasure?

Just use a cheap USB webcam when you need it

Wasted trips

>using laptops

>Being home 24/7

I just removed the camera/microphone pcb and threw them into the trash, fucking useless shit.

Please explain the threat model which backs this line of action.

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need my laptop for my 5hr stay at the local coffee shop, brah. my man.

>being afraid of a camera.
>but muh hackers

why would anybody want to rob an empty house?

Hey Jamal, buy something or leave.

intel management engine

Just disable it

>putting tape over your laptop microphone

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who dis qt

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yeah or I could just put tape over it

>not exclusively using a librebooted X200
enjoy your botnet

>He can't just use a small pry tool to open the bezel on his laptop, and disconnect the ribbon cable for the board that has the camera and mic, and reattach it when he needs to use it
Lol nothing to hide nothing to fear! Right bro?

It's a valid concern, but that's not the point.
To put it simply, what makes a picture of your bored face more valuable than the data stored in your computer's memory and hard drive?
It's me

I turn it off in BIOS, never have needed that shit anyways

Facial recognition, you can link someone's identity with whatever other information about that computer you have (past traffic,accounts,etc).

>mention something in passive conversation i haven't talked about in years in roommate's room
>Alexa and Windows 10 laptop nearby
>youtube starts recommending me videos about it
>on my Gentoo laptop
yooooooooooooooo

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normalfag.

So the cia niggers can turn it on?

I just got one (t450) from work. If you weren't a neet/cashier you'd probably have one too.