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Apple are you listening?
Authored by: Mike Perry on Mar 26, '07 08:24:50AM

If Apple's listening, they should take this as an indication that they need to give us a way to completely and utterly shut down all built-in security holes. Give us a Apple menu option called Security that lets us:

1. Turn off the camera (as here) and microphone
2. Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth for less-than-nice public locales like airports
3. Control Ethernet: Off completely, local IPs only, or every IP.

The feature would also be a quick way to check if those options have been disabled via Preferences.

And they really should give us a different sort of iSight camera on laptops, one that rotates some 270 degrees to face the user or a conference speaker. (Who wants to video tape themselves?) Rotating it to look inside the case would effectively shut it down. A few degrees of up down movement would also be handy.

--Mike Perry, Untangling Tolkien



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Apple are you listening?
Authored by: brett_x on Mar 26, '07 08:49:08AM

How about an option to "Never join the "XXXX" wireless network". We have one rogue network near our offices and it's outside our control. There's no way that I know of for me to "always ignore" or "never Join" that network. Every time I fire up my laptop, it asks if I'd like to join it.
On a higher level, I'd like to disable our users ability to join that network.. but Apple doesn't consider themselves in the Enterprise market enough to give us full controls.... (if anyone knows of a way to do that, please let me know).



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Apple are you listening?
Authored by: PizzaCake on Mar 26, '07 01:13:07PM

I remember setting up my sister's MacBook to only join wireless networks I had specified. I created a Location called safe wireless. There was an option to not automatically connect to wireless networks. Just dig around network preferences/airport I'm sure its all around there.



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Apple are you listening?
Authored by: jelmore49 on Mar 26, '07 04:45:59PM

In the Network pane of the System Preferences, go to the AirPort configuration. There will be a sub-tab also called "AirPort".

Change "By default, join:" from "Automatic" to "Preferred networks" and remove all network names that you do not want the machine to connect to.

Select the "Options..." button; for "If no preferrred networks are found:", select "Keep looking for recent networks"; this should keep AirPort for looking for non-authorized networks, but I haven't tried it.



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Apple are you listening?
Authored by: UberFu on Mar 28, '07 01:48:41PM

"2. Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth for less-than-nice public locales like airports
3. Control Ethernet: Off completely, local IPs only, or every IP."

Mike - these 2 are already available_

Have been since each were implemented [ethernet since pre OS 9 days and Bluetooth when it first came out]

Both can be accessed in the System Preferences App and Bluetooth has an optional Menubar Item that can be activated and which controls Bluetooth functionality_ I use them both constantly_

I do agree with your 2nd suggestion about having the camera "rotatable"_ But basically what they need to do moreso is to go back to the original design of the iSight Camera that they used to sell [until recently for $65] and bring it back - period_

I think an independent - mobile camera is a way better solution than a fixed camera built into your laptop screen looking back at you_


Another low-tech solution is to pop open the laptop screen backing and physically disconnect it from the board it's connected to_ Still looks pretty and only looks pretty_

Or at the least Apple should givve consumers the option of purchasing a laptop with or without a camera - like they do with the option of a back-lit keyboard or not OR like they do with the option for a glossy screen or non-glossy screen_



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