liang4793 / CameraBrake

⚡Camera privacy protection! 🎯Quickly check, report and block camera service from opening.

CameraBrake

Camera privacy protection
Quickly report and block camera service from opening.
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Notes

⚠️Only for Windows, tested on laptops running win10/11
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Realization

A (Windows) service called FrameServer controls whether the camera is turned on or off.
CameraBrake use win32serviceutil to check whether the camera is on and turn off the camera by stopping FrameServer service.

Introduction

1. CameraBrake can detect whether the camera service is occupied and report.
2. CameraBrake can quickly turn off the camera.
3. CameraBrake can prevent the camera from turning on in order to protect privacy and security.

How to use

main:
Camera: On/Off Show current status of camera.
brake camera! (Button) Click to turn off the camera once. (Some programs can turn on the camera again)
always brake camera (Switch) Switch on to turn off the camera. (Doesn't allow the camera to be turned on again)

setting:
Logger (Switch) Switch on to log.
Toaster (Switch) Switch on to notify when camera is on.