For me it’s the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they’re being spied. Here’s the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won’t use it or haven’t used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can’t really spy on you on something that’s already off and unplugged!

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Here’s an even easier hack than all of that :effort:

    Just hold the power button down for about 10 seconds, ez-pz

    • DokPsy@infosec.pub
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      3 months ago

      I like to call that the “putting a pillow over its face” method of rebooting. Reserved for when even a shutdown /r /t 0 doesn’t work

    • tehmics@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I prefer yanking the cord out while furmark, prime95 and a full delete 0 write on the spinning disks is going.