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tylersdad said:

Apple doesn't make tax law, they just follow it. If the EC doesn't like their current tax laws, maybe they should fix them?

They did "fix them", which is what this has been all about. The EU passed new tax laws, and then tried to back-date the new laws and charge Apple for taxes from income generated prior to the "fix".

It would be the same as if the U.S. government passed a new tax law in 2020 that raised your income tax, and then tried to collect on income from 1990 forward. It's that kind of stupid.

razorpit said:

MplsP said:

lkrupp said:

Okay, so I  think I read way back that my iMac’s camera and indicator light were tied together and one could not activated without the other. Did I imagine that or am I right?

I remember reading that, too. I found this thread discussing it that seems to say it may have been possible on the the older (i.e. > 10 years old) cameras but in the newer modules the LED is directly wired to the camera module's power supply.

There should be an indicator like that for iOS devices.

Does anyone know if this vulnerability was able to activate without turning on the LED on newer Macs?

I haven't posted here for a while, but thought I would chime in on this. As others have said, newer Macs (I think 2012 and later, or somewhere thereabouts) have the camera and LED indicator wired together in a circuit. If memory serves, the camera draws power through the LED, so the camera cannot function unless the LED is functioning. They are a connected unit: If the light is on, the camera is on; if the camera is on, the light is on. It is not a software switch, but a hardware circuit. When you open an app through which camera access has been granted, electricity is passed through the LED (which turns it on) and then through the camera—it is one, single circuit. I am stating this based on a tech article I read about the subject some years ago, so my memory is a bit foggy regarding the specifics.