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Take iSight Snapshots When Invalid Login is Detected

December 14th, 2006 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks

This is so cool. Posted verbatim from Mac OS X Hints:

“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:

Download AuthSight

Download iSightCapture

Automator Script for Image Viewing

Better Setup Instructions

Source: Mac OS X Hints

Posted by: Editor

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Comments: 2

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.

Comment from connectionfailure
Time: August 27, 2009, 9:58 pm

http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/authsight/

The other link is really dead, but I haven’t searched for it.

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December 14th, 2006