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Yes, you can activate the camera without activating the LED. The LED is not directly wired to the power supply.[0] [0]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-s
by s_q_b 12y ago
Yes, you can activate the camera without activating the LED. The LED is not directly wired to the power supply.[0]
[0]http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18/research-shows-how-macbook-webcams-can-spy-on-their-users-without-warning/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...
Edit in Reply: Not necessarily. It's probably still possible on modern Apple hardware, albeit with a lot of firmware hacking, according to the authors of the paper: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117937/how-to-use-isight-webcam-without-activating-the-green-light http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117937/how-to-use-i...
- kaolinite 12y agoWell, not exactly. At one point you were able to, but the flaw has been fixed for over 5 years now. It affected cameras on some Macs sold between 2006 and 2009 I believe. Here's the paper describing the flaw: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/36569/camera.pdf?sequence=1 https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...
- s_q_b 12y agoNot necessarily. It's probably still possible on modern Apple hardware, albeit with a lot of firmware hacking, according to the authors of the paper: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117937/how-to-use-i.. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117937/how-to-use-i....