Take iSight Snapshots When Invalid Login is Detected
Now here’s a cool trick: you can take iSight camera captures when an invalid login is detected on a Mac! 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 and a little work, here are the links to follow if you’re interested in this kind of thing:
Automator Script for Image Viewing
Source: Mac OS X Hints
If you know of another method of snapping FaceTime / iSight camera pictures on a Mac when an invalid login is detected, share them with us in the comments!
Nice to read how to block the Facetime camera in my iMac, but how to unblock it when an unknown app is blocking it?
me want mac
i hate microsoft but my dad FORCES me to use it
links are still dead
the links work now but the software is all pretty old, so don’t be surprised if something doesn’t work as planned.
http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/authsight/
The other link is really dead, but I haven’t searched for it.
why isent anyone hosting the file to do this anymore, all the links are dead.