• scutiger@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    They do have an LED that’s meant to show when they’re in use. They’re also designed to detect tampering with the LED. But they can’t detect a piece of tape or black nail polish painted over it.

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      4 hours ago

      Huh, surprised I haven’t heard about that. Shame it’s so easy to circumvent, though. I feel like there has to be a better way to make something like that harder to defeat.

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      5 hours ago

      They can detect the piece of tape as it looks like there’s a photoreceptor very nearby - if covered, the photoreceptor doesn’t see the light of the recording LED and it doesn’t record.

      But, of course the perverts who buy pervert glasses can buy black stickers with a specific shape and applicator that lets you cover the light but without tripping the photoreceptor