Not as much(probably on an order of magnitude less than with windows OSs), but depending on your distro
package manager,specfic packages installed and update schedule etc supply chain attacks and other methods of malware injection are still possible,
it doesn’t harm to have your camera covered when not in active use(you can use something like bluetack to cover it if you don’t have an in-built slide cover) so why not imo
you can use something like bluetack to cover it if you don’t have an in-built slide cover
FYI they sell dedicated covers for the Webcam which stick around the camera and can slide to cover it and slide to uncover it. If you don’t have a Killswitch on your Camera they’re a good thing to have
If you’re running Linux, does this still apply!?
Yes
Not as much(probably on an order of magnitude less than with windows OSs), but depending on your distro package manager,specfic packages installed and update schedule etc supply chain attacks and other methods of malware injection are still possible,
it doesn’t harm to have your camera covered when not in active use(you can use something like bluetack to cover it if you don’t have an in-built slide cover) so why not imo
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3560646/malicious-open-source-software-packages-have-exploded-in-2024.html <- this could be of some intetest
FYI they sell dedicated covers for the Webcam which stick around the camera and can slide to cover it and slide to uncover it. If you don’t have a Killswitch on your Camera they’re a good thing to have
as long as you don’t use evil apps
All good then.