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Smart Glasses Would Legally Require a Recording Light Under Proposed Law (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 days ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@piefed.social

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Lawmakers are once again turning up the legal heat on smart glasses. Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Ciresi (D-Montgomery) has introduced a bill that would require every pair of smart glasses “manufactured, sold, and used” in the state to have a “visual indicator” that tells others when they’re recording.

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[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just cut the wire and run a new one past the light directly to the camera.

The user owns this device and can make physical alterations.

[–] homes@piefed.world -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If this is a nearly microscopic, integrated circuit, you understand that’s a difficult thing to master, especially if you’re trying to attack merely with software, remotely

If this is, say, the integrated WebCam in your laptop, a piece of malware can’t exactly do what you’re proposing

And, unless the physical owner of the device is, themselves, trying to undermine their own security, I don’t see the logic in what you’re proposing. However, it is technically possible. But that’s not exactly the point of what I’m saying.

So, yes, as the owner of my laptop, I could undermine the security of that simple circuitry, but I have no motivation to do so. And any remote attacker would only have the resource of software to do so, and would be limited by what software could do— which would be limited by the, presumably, uncorrupted physical circuitry.