A person who was a security researcher at Apple describes the hardware that prevents the mac’s camera from being on without the LED being on as well. It’s also set up to be on for at least three seconds, so a “power on, take a photo, power off” hack would be visible.

Since Google’s introduction of its Pixel 8 phones earlier this month, it has been interesting and a little amusing to me to read the reactions to its image manipulation tools. It feels like we have been asking the same questions every year — questions like what is a photograph, anyway?, and has technology gone too […]