ELi5: Why are PC webcams much more susceptible to hacking compared to modern smartphones?

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Is there a difference on the Mac side of things?
Does Android and iPhone deal with this in the same way or differently?

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PC webcams are typically cheap, white-labelled embedded devices from China that are all made the same way. They are horribly insecure (especially if they have networking capabilities), and typically try to connect to some cloud servers somewhere. Little effort is put into securing them, which is why I’ll only allow them in a separate VLAN with no access to the Internet, and limited access to other things on my network.

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