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by monocasa 1925 days ago
One issue is that laymen know enough to not trust that switches are true kill switches, but don't generally have the skill set necessary to verify for themselves what their hardware has in that regard.

A piece of tape is a very low technical skill system that you know will cut off a video feed.

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Transparent casing with the wires running to a slightly to large mechanical toggle switch that switches all wires. Then it looks like someone went out of his way getting it right.
I would like to see prisoners provided with in transparent laptops. Take away the lithium battery if worried.
Does not necessarily work on the microphone though.