<story><title>Shazam Keeps Your Mac’s Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/shazam-keeps-your-macs-microphone-always-on-even-when-you-turn-it-off</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmontra</author><text>They should start building hardware switches on mics,  cameras, WiFi, Bluetooth etc. And we should be able to check that they really work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zlatan_todoric</author><text>We do this with our products &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puri.sm&amp;#x2F;learn&amp;#x2F;hardware-kill-switches&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;puri.sm&amp;#x2F;learn&amp;#x2F;hardware-kill-switches&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; although it would be really good to get more players into same field.</text></comment>
<story><title>Shazam Keeps Your Mac’s Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/shazam-keeps-your-macs-microphone-always-on-even-when-you-turn-it-off</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmontra</author><text>They should start building hardware switches on mics,  cameras, WiFi, Bluetooth etc. And we should be able to check that they really work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joof</author><text>I also like the idea of building the notification LED for cameras directly into the circuit so that it can&amp;#x27;t turn on the camera without the LED.</text></comment>