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Webcam/microphone monitoring

From: jim.halfpenny at gmail.com (Jim Halfpenny)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:56:58 +0000

2008/12/20 Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com>

At a conference I went to earlier in the year a stand was giving out
blank 3.5m jack plugs that you plugged in to the mic socket on the
laptop, most machines apparently disable the internal mic when they
think an external one is plugged in.

Kind of related, if you use the X-Lite SIP client it will play the ring tone
of an incoming call through my laptop speakers even if I have my headphone
plugged in. I'm guessing there's also a software method for choosing the
input source which would bypass this protection.

Jim
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