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Apple Closes iSight Security Hole

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nobody-wants-to-see-me-naked dept.

Gruber Duckie writes "Apple's security update 2006-008, posted yesterday, is a little more interesting than it sounds. According to information (and a demo!) posted at Macslash the "information leak" mentioned in Apple's advisory actually makes it possible for a web site to send whatever your (isight) web cam sees up to the server. I'm glad they fixed this quickly."

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  1. Nonsense by CmdrGravy · · Score: 5, Funny

    The internet is full of ladies and they all surf practically naked, I know this because this is what they tell me in chatrooms and other socialising sites.

  2. Re:And images of by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uhm, the article said Apple, not Windows.

    As is well known, we users of MacOSX are all tall with athletic bodies.

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  3. Re:And images of by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

    Liar. There's Breakout, Super Breakout, and Photoshop!

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  4. Shameful this hasn't shown up yet. by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, websites look at you!

  5. Re:Am I the only one by geobeck · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I have this nice little stuffed penguin, see...and when I place him atop my iMac...

    So you're using a Linux patch for your Mac vulnerability?

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  6. Tape War by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the year 2005, Apple Computers released the new iMac, a device with a display screen and integrated camera which allowed a remote viewer to monitor whatever was going on in front of it.

    Your Orwellian society is defeated by a piece of tape.

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