Comments on: Tiger + iSight security concern?

By: karl

karl — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:29:58 +0000

This is not a security concern since it’s just a Quartz Composer file using the iSight as an input. Since it’s a file loaded locally on your system it’s not exactly the huge security hole you think it is. The only thing special here is that you’re seeing it in a browser, and all Quicktime objects can be embedded in a webpage, so no biggie.

By: dombi

dombi — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:58:30 +0000

Dashboard widgets, that are basically web pages, have been doing this for a while now. Remember the famos Mirror widget, that was used to kill the whining sound on the MacBook Pro computers? Well, that one did the same exact thing.

It might be a good idea to somehow notify the user, that the webpage is going to turn the camera on, but at the same time this is not streaming anywhere yet. It is just displaying the image on that specific webpage, but on the website. Basically it is only showing in your browser.

By: Noraa Haras

Noraa Haras — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:50:06 +0000

C’mon guys this is just like a graphics file. The iSight is only running in the browser, it’s not streaming over the Internet or anything.

Now if this site showed OTHER people sitting at their computer that would be a great deal more fun.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:25:03 +0000

Derek…

Did I not tell you that the iSight is a tool to spy!