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From: Warren Oates on 27 May 2010 14:29 In article <isw-2F2EB0.10110527052010@[216.168.3.50]>, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > Put a sticker over the lens. No software hack is going to circumvent it, > guaranteed. > > (If you want to use the microphone, be sure to not cover the very small > holes near the lens.) Ohfergawdsake! http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/26/how-to-disable-the-built-in-isight-camera/ -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: J Burns on 27 May 2010 18:14 Michael Vilain wrote: > In article > <43b22bee-b8db-4cb6-acc8-24172ad0ac32(a)e34g2000pra.googlegroups.com>, > Raja Kommula <rkommula(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a MacBook Pro. Is there any way to disable the iSight webcam >> without hacking the system too much? >> thanks >> --Raja > > Don't attend Lower Merion High School. > > http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/84715297.html > Ain't that something! The system was supposed to be authorized only to find missing computers, but 87% of the photos on file were taken because officials had failed to turn off the system after computers were found. In the preceding year, student-council members had twice complained to the principal about these spy photos. He told them there was no such system. The plaintiff turned on his Macbook with a broken screen. He couldn't be issued a new one because he didn't have $55 for insurance. So he was issued a loaner. That was grounds to turn on the spy system. School officials would meet to view and discuss their spy photos. They said the plaintiff must have been a drug dealer because he had candies wrapped in white. The assistant principal said somebody should warn him before he got into trouble. She was told not to. She warned him anyway. So the parents got a lawyer, who sued her and put a gag order on school officials. The assistant principal can't defend her reputation, and the parents of other victims, who as taxpayers will be paying for legal costs and any settlement, are being kept in the dark.
From: isw on 28 May 2010 01:24
In article <4bfeba1a$0$2229$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In article <isw-2F2EB0.10110527052010@[216.168.3.50]>, > isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > > > Put a sticker over the lens. No software hack is going to circumvent it, > > guaranteed. > > > > (If you want to use the microphone, be sure to not cover the very small > > holes near the lens.) > > Ohfergawdsake! But my way provides absolute proof that it's still disabled and that nobody has re-enabled it when you weren't looking 8^} Isaac |