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At work, two of our users have Asus notebooks (I forgot the model, though) where the "On/Off"-switch for the camera just moves a piece of plastic in front of the lense. Maybe it also turns of the camera, but once the lense is covered it doesn't really matter any more. I like the idea, and since it must be rather cheap, too, I wonder why not more companies do this.

>>krylon+(OP)
If you buy the business version of my webcam you get a plastic cover for $2 over the cost of the consumer variant. One day I might spend $15 for a cover: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I005TPS

>>unders+KB3
On the one hand, for a price difference of $2, I would go for the version with the plastic cover.

On the other hand, with an external webcam, I can simply disconnect it. If you have a laptop built into a laptop that is not so easy to do. At least, you have to trust the laptop's manufacturer to do that, while a builtin plastic cover is so simple one does need to "trust" it; at the same time, you can't retrofit it on a laptop... :(