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by 488643689 2169 days ago
Newer Thinkpads are the only laptops I've seen which bring their own camera shutters. Thinking how often you see people putting tape over their camera, it's quite astonishing build in shutters aren't more common. It's a tiny piece of plastic, costing nothing.

Now what I want is a hardware microphone switch, where the off state actually connects to a noise generator.

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Purism makes laptops and a phone with kill switches for camera and microphone.
>Newer Thinkpads are the only laptops I've seen which bring their own camera shutters.

The Huawei Matebook has the camera as a hidden popup under one of the F-keys.

The Xiaomi Redmibook goes one step further and omits the camera+mic entirely!