On: FBI director: Cover up your webcam

[conradev]

I use a MacBook Pro as my daily driver, but I recently purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad to play around with. Sometimes I forget how awesome it is to have a repairable and modular computer.

I didn't want the webcam or microphone in the ThinkPad… so I took 30 minutes and removed it. Easy as that.

[csydas → conradev]

Well,to be fair you could just open the MacBook Pro and unplug the ribbon for the webcam. iFixit will have instructions. Removing it entirely granted is another matter, involving opening the screen, but you'd have to do the same on any modern laptop with an integrated camera wouldn't you?

[wruza → csydas]

For my mac I just used a knife to open screen and shoved black paper strip before camera.