We also need some kind of hardware indicator like a light that indicates when the mic or camera are turned on. After a blunder like this, a privacy-focused needs to rebuild trust that they take privacy seriously.
there already is one when an app is still listening to your microphone in the background, a giant red bar at the top of the screen. The difference with this bug is that the facetime call pre-initializes microphone and video to reduce the initial connection delay.
Right, I don’t want something in the software which is what happens today. I want a hardware indicator, that should in theory be harder to break or hack (and should make this kind of bug more obvious to a QA team and the general public).
