What's the point of using these ? Why not just close the lid on your laptop whenever you masturbate ?

What's the point of using these ? Why not just close the lid on your laptop whenever you masturbate ?

But how will I watch porn with the lid down?

If you really need that sort of thing then just use your phone ?

Or, you know, cover the webcam?

>If you really need that sort of thing then just use your phone ?
The thing that also has a front-facing camera I have even less control over than the computer webcam?

>he needs porn to get off

who even uses webcams nowadays, other than normies for face calls?

Well, yeah. My lack of imagination is why I became a software engineer and not an erotic fanfic author.

Just use one of these.

I'm not a degenerate.

>someone has access over your system
>thing you are most afraid of is someone seeing you naked
normies are idiots

>What is blackmail
Stop larping and >>>>>reddit

i agree, the ones seeing you naked are the ones who should be afraid

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>front facing camera on a phone doesnt even have an led to show when it is turned on
>many apps have access to the camera and could turn it on at any time without interaction from the user

Phone has 2 cams, mororn

What I never understood is how you faggots could possibly be worried about someone hijacking the webcam in general. Do you really have that poor security practices in place?

Most phones have the camera make a clicking sound when a picture is taken.

literal nsa backdoors in EVERY device
it's not my security I have to worry about, it's the government's

I didn't even know this existed, thank you

But the front facing ones almost never do

100% perfect bait, golden bait, palladium bait really

>be me
>gigantic brain
>absolutely massive, packed with dendrites
>unscrewed bezel on craptop
>unplugged webcam
>plug in a cheap $10 one when I need to video call family
>unplug it when I'm done
>never have to worry about spying
>no ugly tape
>one less useless device consuming power

No. You don't need a 16 Mpixel image. You can request a camera preview and take a fullhd capture from preview, without calling the real capture api. Everything in background. While you play candy crash.

>using anything that has a backdoor
first day on Sup Forums?

Or, you know, learn to solder or ask a repair shop to place a PHYSICAL microswitch on your camera cable.

GTFO fucking brainlet

>implying you have ever done this or that it is remotely a good idea

Electronics are a hobby of mine. I recently ordered a new eDP cable and as soon as it gets here, I'll splice up the old one and make a hole in my monitor housing. This is a better solution than 100% of software "fixes"

I thought about drilling holes in my $2000 laptop to install a three cent switch that looks like shit and has no place to logically put it and sticks out

I think it will help the resale value too!

Obviously you don't take security seriously and are just a memer. Right, stick to fat greasy duct tape. pun intended

cams in every laptop have been a thing for 15 years, and yet you have never soldered in a switch and are only planing to do it even today

why?

I only bought my first laptop several years ago. Didn't know about intel ME and backdooring back then. Not that I care as much now, it's just good practice.

You can wipe off tape residue, you cant wipe off an ugly hole.
Get and old screen protector, paint it black, use a hole punch to punch out a small circular disk, stick it on the webcam, unnoticeable and no residue

>almost invisible flat 2mm microswitch
>click to turn on or off
>user friendly as fuck
>takes 5 minutes to make and lasts forever
Okay bro have fun fiddling around with those circular space disks and residue

dude i don't think you;re full of shit and don't actually know what you're talking about. do you even own a smd rework station or oscilloscope? when's the last time you saw a laptop camera attached in a non-ribbon fashion? how you gonna splice into a ribbon reliably? fuck off

I've never had to do SMD, might get a station soon. Oscilloscopes are useless for what I do.
Pic related what my cable looks like

THIS makes more sense than nigger rigging a switch into your LVDS cavle

What do you want me to look at exactly

nothing in the actual picture, just do what he said

pic related i did the same when display was off

What difference does it make whether you cover the webcam or disconnect it physically with a switch? It's not like the microphone and webcam are connected (at least in most devices I've seen) and blocking the webcam seems good enough.

stop watching porn

Because that is the exact same functionality you expect with a switch. Granted it looks retro and I wouldn't do it on an aliminium macbook.

What about the fucking microphone you monkeys?
What about every program and cookie and JavaScript shit that tracks you?
What about THE FUCKING MICROKERNEL INSTALLED ON YOUR PROCESSOR THAT HAS FULL ACCESS TO YOUR HARDWARE AND NETWORKING STACK?
You don't value your privacy if you think taping your webcam protects you, you're just retarded.

The IQ of a grain of sand.

Some things are out of your control, the rest is your responsibility.

I can fap in silence, I don't need to care about the mic.

I just feel uncomfortable whenever a camer's pointed at me, on or off.

>microphone
Second microswitch
>JavaScript
Minimalist uMatrix setup
>MICROKERNEL
I'm buying an FX-8350 in a few days

Exactly, so why would a switch be better that a sliding security shade? Why go through the trouble of taking the laptop apart and cutting a hole in it to install a switch when you could just stick on a security shade and achieve the same functionality?

Because the latter is ghetto as fuck, to be honest and a switch will stand as a testament to craftsmanship.

>not turning it off

Shine on you crazy cia nigger diamond

>sticking a .6mm thin piece of black plastic that blends in with the design of most laptops over your webcam is more ghetto than cutting a hole in your computer so a switch can stick out

whatever fagatron

Just buy a second screen like everyone else.

Why?
So they can use the front cam for a face shot and the back cam for a dick shot?
You were better off using the laptop.

>be me
>immense brain
>so many neurons and glial cells, believe me, very stable genius
>purchase desktop computer
>purchase monitor with it
>it doesn't have a camera
>it doesn't have a microphone
>if I want them I can get them and install/uninstall them at will