So a DELL technician poped over by my house today to change a

>using windows 10

>>58419917
>not switching the camera off in the BIOS or removing it altogether

>>58419917
hes right

>tfw too stupid to find it out for yourself
Sucks to be you OP. I hope you are at least underage.

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>>58419938
>switching the camera off in the BIOS
>thinking this will fool Intel ME

It's a Dell laptop so new it's still under warranty in the current year, running Win10 for a user who doesn't know how to deal with a webcam, and is on /g/.

>How legit this bullshit can be?

>>58420018
I can't switch it off but if i could intel me wouldn't do shit because it is not a supported feature of my CPU

>>58419917
>How legit this bullshit can be?

If you thought for even one second it was legit, you are retarded.

>>58419917
I used windows 10 for a short period of time, but I have a webcam that everytime it's being used light up its own LED.
That being said, I never noticed that LED turning on when I wasn't using the webcam myself.
So is there a way for win10 to exploit that or it's only working on some types?

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>>58419917
>DELL
>laptop
>laptop with webcam

I'm not even talking about Win 10, because all those three thing above is more than enough.

You should considering suicide.

I bet you have something from shilltell or novideo in your system.

>>58419917
Don't forget your aluminium foil hat too if you're grabbing a piece of tape.

>>58420190
buttmad amdrone

>>58420190
>that pic
holy mother of keks

>>58419917
>Dell technician coming to your to fix shit
Sure nigger

>>58420125

That LED is a device like your webcam. The webcam drivers *should* use that LED to indicate usage. Since it's all software this doesn't have to be true at all.

I know that if I were spying I wouldn't turn on that LED.

>>58420190

Top zozzle mate

>>58420377
If you were a laptop manufacturer you could put both the LED and the webcam in a serial circuit. You can't overcome that design through software.

>>58420434

No manufacturer feels obligated to do that. Driving that LED independently also gives more features like blinking.

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>>58420190
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hahahahahahah

>>58420375
>what is pro-support
you can get the technician with spare parts in like 2 hours

>>58420611

poorfags wouldn't understand.

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>>58419917
>He uses windows 10

>using windows 10

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>windows 10
>takes webcam pic ever 10 seconds

d-does windows 7 take a webcam pic every 7 seconds then? it cant be a coincidence, right?

>>58420946
>windows 7 was even more efficient at spying
kek

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>windows 10
lmao, OP

>>58420946
Why not use Windows Server 2016, it take a webcam pic only every 2016 seconds, more privacy-oriented for consumers.

>>58420960
What website?

>>58420960
what site?

>>58420946
>>58421739
and windows 98 took webcam pics every 98 hours
>tfw u realize the naming convention of windows releases weren't the year or whatever else it was the amount of time it took to take webcam pics
guys this is creepy now

>>58422565
Windows ME is the privacy OS. Takes a shot every new millennium, last time in 2000.

well I guess I'll ask it here...
Since everyone shits on Windows so much I'd likr to try linux for a change, or gentoo or whatever this place approves. But thing is, how these os work? I mean, installing shit wise. Like, do I need to look for versions of programs compatible with them? Aren't good and old .exe files executable in them? What about games? Pls respond

>>58422832
You install things generally through a package manager, which is piss-easy, or by downloading a tarball (like zip files but with more metadata) or a package your manager can handle (similar to EXEs). EXE files are not ELF files, so you can't run them natively. A program called WINE can translate between Linux and Windows syscalls and so it can run a lot of Windows programs, though it may take some tweaking Gamewise, you have Wine (cf. PlayOnLinux) and Steam and a bunch of independent releases too. It's worth it.

>>58420960
toppest of the keks

>>58422832
Are you fucking retarded or are you 12?

>>58422832
If you need to ask then it's not for you.

>>58422899
>not just using git clone half the time for things not supported by your package manger
Who the fuck actually installs from tarballs in this day and age

>>58420190
Whats wrong with dell or laptops? What laptops out now dont have webcams?

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>>58419917

>>58420190
AMD BTFO
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>>58422644

Well who knew windows me was the goto os for privacy

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>>58419917
>mfw windows 10 is constantly watching me masturbate

>>58419917
>This is what americans have to deal with

Sad!

>>58422967
>>58422983
> I was born knowing things
Your type is the worst. Worst. Just have the humility to remember that you were also a noob one day. I just damn wish we were talking about my field of expertise, so I could humiliate you into silence. Go ahead, ask me something about anal sex or nouveau cinema, and see if what I'm going to reply, asshole

>>58423302
The fact that I WASN'T born with knowledge is exactly why I find this question so stupid. I figured these things out by ways that aren't as suicidally idiotic as asking on a fucking Burkinabé Andalusian Dog-fucking forum

Also, someone who wants to change operating system purely because everyone shits on theirs is automatically a moron and a fucking sheep. He doesn't even fucking know what an .exe is, and he wants to overhaul his entire fucking operating system? Way to create an idiot who will spout nonsense to all his acquaintances about how Linux is unusable and autistic and impossible, I'm so fucking tired of hearing that tired meme from complete morons getting in over their head

>>58420190
>That pic
dear god, my sides

>>58423397
> I learned it by MYSELF, why don't you?
Again, you're the worst. You see someone with little knowledge about certain topic being curious to try out a different operating system that is upheld in high regards by this group of people. And what you do? Instead of advising this person like this kind and reasonable anon here (>>58422899) even if you're trying to convince them not to go through with their plan, you decide to shame and ridicule them for not having the knowledge you so proudly possess. And now you try to justify your Neolithic behavior with this half baked excuse that I'll defame your precious os once I fail to master it. Just a hideous implication.
Go eat a bag of vaginas, you heterosexual.

>>58420299
>>58420360
>>58420392
>>58420190
>>58420553
>>58423007
>>58423037
>>58423475
Surely this is samefagging

>>58423798
Who would be autistic enough to post all those responses several hours apart?

>>58423302

This board is one of the worst on this aspect. Just get used to it.

>>58423836
The kind of person who found that image remotely funny

>>58420028
>intel me wouldn't do shit because it is not a supported feature of my CPU

What CPU are you using? AMD has an equivalent, and every Intel/AMD CPU made since ~2008-2009 has it.

>>58419917
I've covered every camera connected to a pc since playing around with back orifice in the 90s.

>>58419917
>not paying him a tenner to remove the camera's headers on the motherboard entirely
>not paying him another tenner to do the same with the microphone header too
You can still make out some light changes even with a bit of plastic over the lens. Only foil will actually block light transmission, but it's still possible to get an image from reflections on the glass covering the bezel.

>>58419917
thats just fucking LINUXFAG PROPAGANDA.
Dont fall for it windowbros.

>>58423908
I went up to that image so I could tell you that you just can't find humor in the simple things. It turns out I was wrong. I have not told you you were wrong prior, but I apologize for being ready to tell you you were wrong. That image is fucking stupid.

>>58420960

What does the moonrunes say?

>>58425729
Looks like "あなたがブロックされています-コンピュータのを変更してください。" which google translates as "You are blocked - please change the computer."

>>58423798
nope, only the second one is mine.
why is it bad that people like something?
>I DON'T AND YOU SHOULDN'T ASWELL BECAUSE WERE ON AN ANONYMOUS IMAGE BOARD

>>58419917
>tfw some qt3.1415926 NSA girl is jerking off to my pic

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>>58428371
>qt3.1415926 NSA girl
Does it count if some of them are girls on the inside?

>>58423302
The thing is, when you're a linux newbie there are a lot things you will have to learn for yourself or you won't be able to make your computer work. You will fuck up a lot and if you're man enough you'll search around on how to fix all your fuck-ups and that will allow you to learn how to control your own computer and your operating system, instead of having your operating system control you and your computer.
You really won't get very far if you're going to start off asking about stuff on /g/.

>>58420018
Intel ME has been cracked. You can disable it with a simple hack.

>>58419938
modern OSs run in a hypervisor on the cpu, that setting is useless with a hardware bug

>>58419917
You have to learn these things one day, welcome to adulthood noob.

>>58419917
Same with your cellphone frontal

>>58419917
Was he an old dude or someone who looks like he came from /g/?

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>>58419917
It's bullshit. The tech heard part of some story about Windows 10 and chose not to follow up since he never plans to install Windows 10 anyway.

What's probably true is that Windows 10 DOES take screenshots of what you're doing and probably sends them to Microsoft. Nothing specifically to do with the webcam though, unless you happen to be videoing yourself at the time.

>>58430071
Not really.

On old core2 devices, it can be disabled with modified firmware, and on some sandy/ivy bridge devices it can be crippled by removing some of its components, but it is still very much a closed down blackbox that can't be touched on most systems.

>>58419917
I don't know about the webcam, but there was a recent story about Windows10 taking a screenshot every 10 seconds and sending it to Microsoft.

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Putting tape on your cam is retarded.

If you're going to do that then also remove the build in microphone from your laptop and phone, since they can use them to listen to you.

>My face when retards put tape on the cam and remove the microphone but let the speaker untouched
>My face when people doesn't realize the NSA/Facebook/Jewgle/etc can listen thru the speaker since speakers are nothing more than a fucking inverse huge microphone

>>58430681
thats stupid. when im at my desk i dont exactly go "OKAY EMPTY ROOM, IM CONTACTING MY DRUG DEALER VIA SMS. MY BANK DETAILS ARE xxxxx-xxxx-xxxxx. THE BODY IS HIDDEN UNDER MY LEFT APPLE TREE IN THE BACKYARD". they cover the camera for privacy because they dont want someone watching them pick their nose or jack off. even if your jacking it to illegal child porn unless your literally yelling "MY NAME IS DAVE SARKWOSKI AND IM SQUEEZING ONE OUT TO THIS 13 YEAR OLD YEAH", microphone access is fucking useless

i mean seriously, what the fuck would you be doing that contains personal information audibly unless you were ALREADY talking to somebody else, who could be recording it? erotic roleplaying with some trap, talking about how much you want them to pound your moist boipussi means jack shit unless you add your name and house address. like, get real. "YES, GIVE ME THE TRAPCOCK, DELIVER IT TO insert home address and street directions"? get fucking real

>>58430978
Some people talk to themselves.
Some people talk in front of others to make themselves look important.
And in doing this, they will incriminate themselves.

>>58431203
those people are idiots and are going to get caught regardless if someone really is trying to spy on them.

>>58419917
Doesn't matter if you have win, if you have webcam with access to internet somebody will always watch you.

>>58430978
so you're saying that you hold up your drugs in front of your webcam? that when you talk to people on the phone that you're also writing it out and showing it to the webcam?

like you realize how fucking retarded it is to claim microphone access doesn't matter but webcam access does?
like majority of cameras dont even move nor do they have a wide view and therefore you pretty much have to be shoving things in front of your face for them to catch anything
and yes, that includes jacking off, they can't see anything but your o face, and you probably don't have a very expressive o face given you probably jerk yourself multiple times a day now

>>58431296
no you idiot, i said privacy. not self incrimination. if your worried about being incriminated by your own webcam then your ALREADY being careful about where and what "illegal" things you do. if your seriously worried that you webcam is taking pictures of you, then your ALREADY not smoking your bong in front of the damn thing.

i dont jerk off infront of my windows and worry if someone might see me. i just dont jerk off in front of windows. no need to tape newpapers to the fucking windows

>>58430313
You have no way of knowing that. Your just another retarded windows uses who had no fucking clue what he's running.

>>58431706
You have a source then?

>>58419917
>He installed Windows 10 outside of VM

you are fucked, bios probably infected with botnet. time to scrap this box and get a new computer.

>>58423961
A Pentium 4 M

>>58419917
Disable the driver

>Not knowing about this

>>58420190
That is almost a 9/10

>>58423836
An autist with OCD

>>58419917
Have you tried just timestamping your anus and showing your webcam?

>>58423908
>>58423798
I was wondering why that was funny and thought the same thing.

>>58430978
>>58431203
>>58430681
samefag? also the only reason to tape your keyboard or obfuscate a camera, is when typing passwords.

If there is a side channel or a implicit site on a web browser, that asks for camera access and allows a malicious user to watch you type passwords into chrome, firefox, etc, then you will reap the benefits of the $0.05 tape over the camera.

Destroy the camera you stupid faggot. There are 0 reasons why a laptop should have a webcam.

>>58419917
>got an XPS 13 before the W10 craze and downgraded to W7

feelsgoodman

>>58419917
>How legit this bullshit can be?

Mostly bullshit. Microsoft has better things to do than stalk you.

>>58435384
They can do both

>>58420449
>>58420434
>>58420377
All the MacBooks and HP laptops I have had, had the LED on the cam power, so you can't have one without the other.