CHchmars·Mar 3, 2014Submission
1 points · Open discussionstevecheckoway
iSightDefender
C++2013–2014
stevecheckoway / iSightDefender
iSightDefender
Prevent your iSight from turning on without the green light also turning on.
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
101GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Prevent your iSight from turning on without the green light also turning on.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by week2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2013-12-18 22:02:25 UTC to 2014-03-03 10:44:20 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16 | 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 23 | 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 30 | 2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 6 | 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 13 | 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 20 | 2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 27 | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 3 | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 10 | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 17 | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 24 | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 3 | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThere is a freely-available kernel extension[1] to make this firmware hack accessible to root only. The exploit depends on modding the camera firmware from userspace.
The kext is created by the same authors of the paper[2] this article is talking about. Search the paper for "iSightDefender".
[1] https://github.com/stevecheckoway/iSightDefender
[2] https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...
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