[DM-MUG] isight security hole

Victoria L. Herring vlh at herringlaw.com
Thu Dec 21 15:38:13 CST 2006


I DID hit play and watched the little side carrot move across the 
screen without any result.  I am now at JosephCrawfor'd site and it's 
blank.  I think I'm fairly secure, apparently...or at least to these 
two sites.


>You have to press the play button (auto play was messing up some 
>windows machines).  Also, I found it doesn't work if you went to the 
>original poster's web site since you last quit Safari.  You can also 
>go to http://www.josephcrawford.com/2006/11/11/scary-isight-trick/ 
>to see it.
>
>John
>
>On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Michael R. Hoffmann wrote:
>
>>Nothing here either.
>>On Dec 21, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>>
>>>>I believe they just patched this today or yesterday evening.  
>>>>However, the "see yourself on a web site" trick still works: 
>>>>http://www.bobbis.net/node/315 .
>>>>
>>>>John
>>>>
>>>>On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Dave Weis wrote:
>>>
>>>at this minute, I am using Safari and clicked on this site and my 
>>>iSight is on and working [checked using iChat] and so far nothing 
>>>shows up....

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