When your Mac’s iSight camera is running, a tiny green light lets you know that it’s turned on. Or at least it’s supposed to. New research from Johns Hopkins University shows how hackers can remotely control the iSight camera in certain Macs without turning on the accompanying LED indicator light.I'm an Electronics Engineer by trade. If I were designing a feature like this the last thing I would do is make it accessible in software OR firmware. I'd hard wire that mofo in so there is no way anyone could activate the camera without activating the LED too.
I'm sure the designers thought they were being smart by making the circuitry more complicated than it needs to be, when in actual fact they were being arrogant thinking no-one can hack mac hardware.
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