well this story is only partly true. The lamp that indicates the camera is active is get's it's power from the same line that powers the camera. So simply if the camera is one the lamp is on...
But I still unplug my webcam and microphones when not in use.

Wait, there is a laptop camera that is NOT hardwired with the indicator light? I mean, what's the purpose of the having indicator light then? Giving a second chance to hacker to redeem themselves?

This is very suspect. In most laptop cameras the led illumination is simply a function of powering up the camera. It is essentially part of the camera circuit. It's not as if there is a camera and an LED and a software-level function to enable one and not the other.

I thought that those lights couldn't be turned off. My understanding is that the camera sensor is fed power through the LED. Obviously each camera is different, but...Is this not true?

Is there any shot this is sensationalist BS? There are so many Linux hackers who try to make drivers for these things, you would think they'd find a way to make this exact functionality happen and would speak up about it.

I'm going through the source articles looking for a better description of this tool. I find it unlikely that they can achieve this with any measure of consistency. Built-in web-cams are very much an OEM thing, which ought to mean that they vary wildly from device to device, and moreso from brand to brand. Perhaps…

Fine. Let's see a proof of concept demo of this.

Looks familiar.

That water drop on the lense is giving me an OCD rage fit....

See, if they would've let people make copies, we wouldn't be in this predicament.

Perhaps I'm looking at the map in the article wrong, but it appears as though that little star denoting the North Pole is outside of the red-dashed line indicating the expansion area.

I guess "Canada's About to Claim an Area Near the North Pole but not the North Pole Itself" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

"...workers will screen every car, truck, bus, and package that comes into the carefully guarded site..." I see that it doesn't mention planes. I don't always have the best memory, but I feel like the reason we have to rebuild it had a lot to do with planes... seems like maybe some AA turrets would have been a better…

Why is this surprising?

I like the ones that actually sound like music.

Color

Burning $25 is even better. Reduces the amount of currency in circulation, raising the value of the dollar and looks pretty.

It's really nice of Amazon to try and save the USPS

Read the article. Improve yourself, don't rely on anyone else to do it for you.

As a staff photographer for the Daily News (when it was "New York's picture newspaper") I was assigned to a story on Hart Island. Nothing was off limits for me on that trip and I able to watch close up how the knowns and nobodies were "interred" to their final resting place. This was sometime in the seventies when I…

Oh look. They nearly missed. /carlin