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I'm sorry but "if you didn't personally verify the wiring layout of your phone therefore all your concerns about phone software are invalid" doesn't sound like an expert-level argument. I know "expert" doesn't mean what it used to mean anymore, but this approach is ridiculous whether the person advancing it considers himself an "expert" or not.
I also don't think acting like:
is difficult, is a sign of expertise in electro-mechanical control. Like you can trivially find off the shelf products to do that, it's not even that complicated of a circuit, it's practically what transistors were invented to do.
There is a reason laptop webcams now often have physical lens covers. From that paper:
All of this to say it's not that outlandish that there is a zero day that allows the NSA to listen to your phone without activating the icon. I assume the reputational risk to Facebook is not worth it though, since they probably have other ways of figuring out what ads to deliver.
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