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Congratulations Apple for implementing the spst switch in 7nm with 23 million transistors.
The T2 is used for: - image signal processing - an audio controller - a mass storage controller - a dedicated AES engine for encryption. - secure enclave for touch id
Someday we'll find that the image processing function has a bug that lets you control the microphone when you open some stupid meme. Great separation of security
I'm really wondering if there even was 1 customer request for this.
My company (major telecom) literally gives away camera covers. Surely they'd do same for mics if there was a convenient cheap way. There's plenty of rumors about mics & cameras being commandeered by hackers & secret agencies. Apple gets ahead by actually securing mic access. Lots of people want it.
Plug in USB mic when you need one.
Congratulations Apple for implementing the spst switch in 7nm with 23 million transistors.
The T2 is used for: - image signal processing - an audio controller - a mass storage controller - a dedicated AES engine for encryption. - secure enclave for touch id
Why is it so hard to believe the headline?
Because you know that the technology to physically disconnect a microphone when a lid is closed is extremely simple, and doesn't require a computer chip that is impossible for the user to audit.
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The trivial solution would be a LED + resistor just wired across the mic's power rails.
When the microphone is a passive connected to a multifunction IC there's no such power rail.
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> The light is connected to the actual power of the camera and cannot be disabled unless the camera is also disabled. This was proven false when malware was discovered that accessed the camera on Mac laptops without activating the LED light. It's mentioned in the article.
Am I the only one who has tape over my laptop camera? (Specifically a peppa pig sticker)
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Physical switch could be done with a very small magnet behind the lid surface and an opposed micro-reed switch (or other magnetically actuated on/off device) buried behind the body surface. No surface penetrations, no exposed moving parts (reed relays are hermetically sealed).
And a magnetic switch is far too easily defeated
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The camera already functions this way. The light is connected to the actual power of the camera and cannot be disabled unless the camera is also disabled. The microphone, to my knowledge, doesn't function like this but I don't think it makes sense for it to function like this as the microphone doesn't really need power outside of what's provided to the amps and DACs inside the machine. It would be too easy to work ar…
> The light is connected to the actual power of the camera and cannot be disabled unless the camera is also disabled. This was proven false when malware was discovered that accessed the camera on Mac laptops without activating the LED light. It's mentioned in the article.
It’s possible that Wardle’s Black Hat paper does, but the link doesn’t back up the assertion in the TechCrunch piece.