Reply to post: Re: hardware access

Backdoors won't weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he's right. They won't – they'll fscking torpedo it

Kiwi
Holmes

Re: hardware access

Cameras like that tend to pick up things our eyes don't, such as infrared. That can be exploited to emit an anti-camera interference that normal eyes wouldn't see. Sort of like how Macrovision exploited the slower reaction time of pure TV connections to changing sync signals to throw off machine-to-machine copying.

Dur.... No shit sherlock. Only been using phone cameras to check if remotes are working for 15 years or so, give or take (how long have phones had cameras anyway?)

But obviously you missed something stupidly obvious.. If they had a source emitting IR I'd be able to pinpoint it using said camera, and mask it with something like I dunno, masking tape? in a matter of seconds and still point said phone at the screen and record whatever I wanted to.

Yet again one of your problems is countered with less thought than it takes to press a button on my lap.

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