[Reiko]

Doesn't sound far fetched, sadly.

It's really not. These lights are controlled through software and don't always have to be on when the cam is on. The camera drivers dictate whether or not the light comes on when the cam does. All that's really needed is a modified driver for your model of camera.

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I'm fairly sure if this was doable it would have to be written into the drivers of each and every single webcam. And if somehow they were able to do that without even one person balbbing about it all over the internet then some linux coder would have discovered this when porting drivers.

And seriously, I'm sure RAT coders would have been all over this if it was doable.

It's a possibility that some of them do have the functionality already written into them, but not all of them.

Physical, manually-opened shutters.