begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:04:10PM -0700: > On 5/18/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >Practically *everyone* has a microphone in their laptop for the past 4-5 > >years. Webcams are now pretty ubiquitous, but probably only for laptops > >1-2 years old.
This is a downside of a new laptop. > Back in the days of NeXT computers, after some 3-letter agencies > bought a bunch of them, the standard solution was to put a dummy plug > into the connector, thus disabling the built-in microphone. > > I suppose that a small piece of black electrical tape would do well > for disabling the webcam. Doesn't have to be black, just opaque. I have some metal tape (for duct-work, I suspect) that's nice and shiny and would work well for people with shiny computers. -- I can't say something witty here, I have a purring cat on my lap. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
