Every breath you take ... iSight camera just might be watching you
Those cool little cameras at the top of Mac screens are great for Web chatting, taking your picture while you're at the Apple Store ... and possibly for hackers to spy on you:
A crafty little trick posted by Joseph Crawford made its way around the web toward the end of last week, wherein he (or anyone) could turn on your local iSight and display it on a web page back to you against your will. This was done by opening up Quartz Composer in the dev tools for OS X, creating a video input and a billboard, and then dragging a line from the video input to the billboard. You then just have to export it to QuickTime and embed it in your web page.
Here's the original post of the "trick." Real or paranoia? You be the judge.
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I can't let you do this, Dave.