Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
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Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
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Re: Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
#2It will still work on localhost, which is nice. It would be nice if it also worked on local IPs, like 192.168... Those do not work on Chrome, I think, which make mobile testing a bit more cumbersome.
Re: Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
#3While Mozilla puts users first, certain companies think they are entitled to run "their" arbitrary code on your PC, with just one click, zero warning... Oh, i forgot, they are big trustworthy companies that would never let someone explore the opening to find a way in... wink, wink...
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#4Love it, although I'm sure you can still send video/audio in non-encrypted ways right?
Re: Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
#5It will still work on localhost, which is nice. It would be nice if it also worked on local IPs, like 192.168. . . Those do not work on Chrome, I think, which make mobile testing a bit more cumbersome.
You could add a tunnel via iptables to just route one port on localhost to another ip
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#6Dear Apple: for Christmas I'd like physical, no-bullshit power shutoff switches for your camera and microphone on the Macbook Pro. Other devices too—if you can manage it, that'd be great. Sincerely, the people who put tape over their cameras, the people who don't because it's ugly and messes with closing the lid but wish they could, and the people who would be in one of those two camps if they understood the risk (so, altogether, 100% of your users).
Re: Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
#7Dear Apple: for Christmas I'd like physical, no-bullshit power shutoff switches for your camera and microphone on the Macbook Pro. Other devices too—if you can manage it, that'd be great. Sincerely, the people who put tape over their cameras, the people who don't because it's ugly and messes with closing the lid but wish they could, and the people who would be in one of those two camps if they understood the risk (so…
Have you noticed that the people who tape up their laptop camera almost always still carry around a smartphone in their pocket 100% of the time.
Re: Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
#8Dear Apple: for Christmas I'd like physical, no-bullshit power shutoff switches for your camera and microphone on the Macbook Pro. Other devices too—if you can manage it, that'd be great. Sincerely, the people who put tape over their cameras, the people who don't because it's ugly and messes with closing the lid but wish they could, and the people who would be in one of those two camps if they understood the risk (so…
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Re: Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
#9Dear Apple: for Christmas I'd like physical, no-bullshit power shutoff switches for your camera and microphone on the Macbook Pro. Other devices too—if you can manage it, that'd be great. Sincerely, the people who put tape over their cameras, the people who don't because it's ugly and messes with closing the lid but wish they could, and the people who would be in one of those two camps if they understood the risk (so…
From my understanding, Apple has done sort of what you're asking for, they've hooked up the physical wiring of the camera LED to the camera itself, so it is physically impossible to power the camera without the LED being turned on (as opposed to the "turn on LED" being part of firmware logic that could be hacked).
Re: Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
#10Dear Apple: for Christmas I'd like physical, no-bullshit power shutoff switches for your camera and microphone on the Macbook Pro. Other devices too—if you can manage it, that'd be great. Sincerely, the people who put tape over their cameras, the people who don't because it's ugly and messes with closing the lid but wish they could, and the people who would be in one of those two camps if they understood the risk (so…
Have you noticed that the people who tape up their laptop camera almost always still carry around a smartphone in their pocket 100% of the time.
The difference being that the smartphone camera isn't pointed at your face or room the entire time the device is in use.