Low-tech anti-surveillance tool for the OLPC XO-1
After reading several articles about the alleged spying that was enabled by a Pennsylvania school district via its one-to-one MacBook, and seeing discussion on a variety of mailing lists, I’ve decided to implement my own zero-cost, no-hassle solution to the problem for the OLPC XO-1‘s camera.
This should be able to be adopted in deployments everywhere, by anyone with a piece of paper, or anything else they can slide through the plastic faceplate.
Just say no to fancy addons and factory-added “shutters” or “covers”, make your own!
February 26th, 2010 at 13:15
For privacy reasons there is an LED hardwired to the camera, so that nothing in software can keep the light from going on when the camera is recording.