Alan Pope pointed out that probably the reason that the camera key removes the camera so effectively (that is: it doesn't just disable it, it totally removes it as though it were never there at all; the thing drops off the bus, which is presumably happening at some sort of hardware level, rather than the kernel doing it? Joseph can you confirm that it's a hardware thing?) is that then malicious applications can't surreptitiously turn on the camera. I appreciate that this is the case. It would be really nice if, for example, we could detect the difference between "the camera on this machine is disabled in this way" and "this machine really doesn't have a camera"... and then alert the user somehow, so they don't go through the baffling mystery that I did. (Imagine, for example, if we provided a video source which was a JPG saying "your camera is disabled: press the camera button to re-enable it". No-one would ever be baffled again.)
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