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by brianmcnulty 91 days ago
I guess this means the listener for Hey Siri requests has to be inside of the exclave/conclave to avoid triggering the mic indicator light 24/7 or leaking microphone data? I assume this means the code has to be able to be updated through various macOS/iOS updates and is not immutable, so I do wonder how the code signature verification for that works (since I assume the code signing checks would have to be done at a hardware/bootloader level above the kernel)

I also assume this means you can't put the mouse cursor over the camera indicator as well since that can be controlled by the kernel/host (if someone here has a Macbook Neo pls confirm).

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Can confirm; the cursor goes "beneath" the camera/mic indicator on the MacBook Neo.
What happens when you screen share - does those pixels show as active or the kernel cannot read the state of those pixels and the capture has the video memory state?