Disable iSight LED "Green Dots' on macbook (Bootcamp or OSX) ?

[gt_killa]

Hey,

It's becoming kinda annoying to have the LED turns on whenever I use skype for video call..Is there a way to stop the green dots LED to turns on when I use the webcam? Thank you

[xopher]

Electrical tape.

I'm being serious. The reason it comes on is to alert the user that it is on so they'll know if someone is viewing them without their permission.

[Ratatapa]

DISABLE ISIGHT

Are you constantly seeing the green light on? Just paranoid? Use these handy terminal commands to disable the iSight camera (be sure to replace YourName with your username!):

sudo mv /System/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component \ /Users/YourName/Desktop

and

sudo mv /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/ Versions/A/Resources/VDC.plugin /Users/YourName/Desktop

What you have just done is move two drivers for the iSight camera out of their system folders and onto your Desktop. If you wish to reverse this move, you simply change the direction (assuming you haven’t moved the files since then):

sudo mv/Users/YourName/Desktop/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component \ /System/Library/QuickTime/

and

sudo mv /Users/YourName/Desktop/VDC.plugin /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/

If you want to make the iSight stay disabled forever, simply dump the files on your Desktop into the Trash and empty it.

But like Xopher said better keep it

[bungiefan]

A lot of webcams are being hardwired so that if the camera is on, the LED is on. There have been too many cases making the news of people spying on computer users with RAT software, so many camera manufacturers are making it impossibel to disable the light. You can cover it and the camera, but depending on your camera, you may not be able to just disable the light.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...their-webcams/