[Noisebridge-discuss] Add a hardware killswitch to Thinkpads?

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 03:09:21 UTC 2018


The only way to be sure is to actually disconnect them physically from
power and the bus. Nothing else can't be trusted.



-adrian

On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 at 19:26, Steve Phillips <steve at tryingtobeawesome.com>
wrote:

> Hey hackers,

> Someone came by one of my privacy hackathons and asked how hard it would
be to create a hardware kill switch for a Thinkpad's mic, webcam,
bluetooth, and wifi.  Any ideas?  We've researched it a bit and didn't find
much, though one person in Slack suggested "scratching some PCB", but I'm
hoping there's something less invasive we could feasibly do.

> Any pointers would be much-appreciated.  Thanks!

> --Steve
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