One of the advantages of hardware kill switches, shutters on cameras, and the like is social signaling: other people can see them, and can see them being used. If I put my mass-manufactured phone on the table, and you can see the hardware sensors switch is "off", you can be quite sure I'm not recording you.
I think there's a chance for us to normalize this sort of thing, and make it table stakes for a lot of interactions. In a meeting room and there isn't a shutter on the camera? That's breaking the rules and we need to find one. And so on.
Relevant to this discussion, another thought I had is location- and QoS-aware enabling and disabling of the cell radios so I'm using wifi whenever I can, automatically. If I have a good internet connection other than through the cell radio, the cell radio is shut off.
Thank you again for your thoughtful reply and your work.
One of the advantages of hardware kill switches, shutters on cameras, and the like is social signaling: other people can see them, and can see them being used. If I put my mass-manufactured phone on the table, and you can see the hardware sensors switch is "off", you can be quite sure I'm not recording you.
I think there's a chance for us to normalize this sort of thing, and make it table stakes for a lot of interactions. In a meeting room and there isn't a shutter on the camera? That's breaking the rules and we need to find one. And so on.
Relevant to this discussion, another thought I had is location- and QoS-aware enabling and disabling of the cell radios so I'm using wifi whenever I can, automatically. If I have a good internet connection other than through the cell radio, the cell radio is shut off.
Thank you again for your thoughtful reply and your work.