This question Are there privacy concerns with the Built-In iSight Camera and LED Indicator? seems to agree that newer models you can't. No proof exists that you can do the same in post-2008 laptops. Is there a iSight Camera driver for Windows 10 I looked around the web for older Bootcamp drivers but none of them work and some of them freeze my computer. The ability to turn the camera on without the green light was only proven in pre-2008 laptops. My understanding is, it depends on the model of your Macbook. In short: Yes, the iSight can be used without green light as it is not hardwired. “There’s no reason you can’t do it - it’s just a lot of work and resources but it depends on how well secured the hardware,” Miller says. IFixit had the same question and their answer was also based on the same paper:Īccording to the researchers, the vulnerability they discovered affects “Apple internal iSight webcams found in earlier-generation Apple products, including the iMac G5 and early Intel-based iMacs, MacBooks, and MacBook Pros until roughly 2008.” While the attack outlined in the paper is limited to these devices, researchers like Charlie Miller suggest that the attack could be applicable to newer systems as well. The authors also provide software to protect you against these problems. Its sleek style, great image quality, sensitive microphone, and flawless integration with iChat and iMovie make it the perfect. In short: normally you use the CPU to access the camera and activate the LED, but you can also use the processing unit in on the camera board itself and this will not activate the green LED. The Apple iSight is hands down one of the best Webcams we've seen.
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In this paper they explain on how to disable the LED when using the camera. "iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED" is a paper by Matthew Brocker and Stephen Checkoway from the Johns Hopkins University.