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detaro on Nov 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel ...

At least you only need to verify a switch once, it won't be compromised by software changes.

squarefoot on Nov 11, 2017 [–]

Assuming the switch does really cut the mic signal and doesn't instead act on a i/o pin which calls a function to disable the mic input. The second solution would be hackable.

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