Hard wired link between webcam and led indicator? In light of stories about stories about secret monitoring over laptop webcams (such as this one or this one), I wonder about the reliability of the green LED next to the camera that indicates that it's in use.

Is there a known hard-wired link between the camera on a MacBook Pro and the indicator that is impossible to circumvent in software?

Would such a thing be possible given the hardware of the camera?
I just read another article about that on Ars Technica


Yes the LED is hardwired
But it can still be bypassed


Only downside of this article, it was only tested on "old" (late PPC, early Intel) macs.