Take iSight Snapshots When Invalid Login is Detected
December 14th, 2006 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
“With the new MacBook Pro’s including built-in iSight cameras, I thought it would be useful to take an iSight snapshot of anyone trying to break into my laptop. This is done by tailing /var/log/asl.log for invalid login attempts (both at the login screen and screen saver). I have created an authsight program (1.5KB download) that provides a monitoring daemon which calls the camera after an invalid login attempt, and also includes a launchd manifest. An iSight command line tool named iSightCapture is also required.
It would not be too difficult to modify this tool to call home and even email photos should a laptop be stolen.”
Setting this up is pretty easy and requires a few downloads:
Automator Script for Image Viewing
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Comment from frustrated user
Time: February 17, 2008, 6:24 pm
why isent anyone hosting the file to do this anymore, all the links are dead.
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December 14th, 2006
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