{"id":186,"date":"2014-05-13T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhumag.dev.173.166.187.154.xip.io\/?p=186"},"modified":"2014-06-11T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:05:09","slug":"cant-hide-pryin-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2014\/05\/cant-hide-pryin-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Hide (From) Those Pryin\u2019 Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-563\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.bcreativegroup.com\/jhuwse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Impact_YouCantHidePryinEyes_thumb-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Impact_YouCantHidePryinEyes_thumb\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Impact_YouCantHidePryinEyes_thumb-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Impact_YouCantHidePryinEyes_thumb.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Smile! If you\u2019re using a MacBook computer,<\/strong>\u00a0you might inadvertently find yourself on a version of the classic television show <em>Candid Camera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Computer scientists at the Whiting School have demonstrated how hackers can take over some MacBooks, activating their Web cameras without triggering the built-in green light that warns users that they are in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple went to some trouble to put that security feature in place so that the light would come on when the camera was taking images, but in our paper, we show how it\u2019s not fail-safe,\u201d says Stephen Checkoway, an assistant research professor in the Department of Computer Science and co-author of the paper, \u201ciSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam,\u201d which was published in December.<\/p>\n<p>The paper details how Checkoway and graduate student Matthew Brocker reprogrammed the microcontroller of an iSight camera to manipulate the LED warning light and the recording function separately, enabling the computer to record someone without that person having any idea the camera was in use.<\/p>\n<p>Checkoway and Brocker notified Apple of the security flaw in July 2013. 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