Tamper with the Meta glasses recording LED and Meta kills the camera in software
HaktanSuren · x · 2026-09-02
A look at Meta smart glasses' privacy mechanism: when a user physically tampered with the recording light, Meta responded by disabling the camera in software. As the poster quips, that little LED apparently has admin rights — its integrity acts as the trust anchor for recording, and breaking it triggers a software-side camera kill switch.
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