Scary iSight Trick
- November 11th, 2006
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So as you might see to the left (if you have an iSight) you can see that it was turned on and can be viewed remotely locally. All i am doing is displaying it back to you but…. What could someone else do with this? It is actually very simple to do. If you have the development tools installed you open up the Quartz Composer, create a video input, and a billboard. Then you just drag a line from the video input to the image option on the billboard.
Export it to a QuickTime movie and embed it into your page. I am going to research this a bit more over the next few days to find out if there is a way to make your iSight block this sort of connection attempt.
If you have any significant information about this hack please do let me know. I did not find this hack myself actually I found it on a page that led me to this page.
As many have said in the comments it is not possible for anyone to watch you as this is all done locally on your screen. It’s still a cool trick though. Although it does make me wonder if you could embed JavaScript or something in the page to take a screenshot and send it off in an email. I will have to find a JavaScript expert to either trash that idea or show some example code.
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Joseph Crawford
- 11/20/07
- 06:52 PM
It looks to me like Leopard has fixed this so it can no longer be used… bummer it was cool while it lasted lol.
Joseph Crawford
- 09/28/07
- 03:15 PM
I have fixed the video 
Joseph Crawford
- 04/18/07
- 08:48 PM
Yea my site got messed up and I didn’t notice this was not working, I will have to get this working again. Thanks for pointing this out.
Jay
- 04/18/07
- 03:23 PM
I now notice that the iSight pictue does not show up (Running Safari on my MacBook and iSight is not in use).
Perhaps the 10.4.9 update corrected this “security flaw”?
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Joseph Crawford
- 01/14/07
- 11:54 PM
Hello,
Honestly I would not be your best bet for advice here, maybe someone else who has commented on this post could help out.
Although it just looks to me like they are showing their video locally (could do it with iChat even) and screen casting it so that it is captured inline with what they are doing.
Lou Ordorica
- 01/14/07
- 06:44 PM
Joseph,
I’m looking for a way to show a small, borderless live video window to use in screencasting. The idea is to record the presenter while he is demonstrating software. Here is rough example:
http://mediacast.sun.com/share/lou/RSS_Demo.mov
Would you know how to do this without using a clunky Quicktime preview window?
Thanks
Joseph Crawford
- 01/12/07
- 08:04 AM
Thanks for all of the comments guys, I appreciate the feedback
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Giovanni
hi my name is giovanni and my highschool has distrubited laptops to all of its students i was wondering if u could put this hack on my myspace for me because i cant do it on my own we dont have the dev. toolz please email me and let me know how u feel about this..