Remember, the camera on MacBook laptops and iMacs is basically front and center at the top of the display, look carefully and you’ll be able to locate it. The tape strategy is so ubiquitous with individuals in security fields that there must be something to it… and it’s easy! The tape strategy obviously won’t disable the camera but it at least prevents an image from being seen or captured, which is often the desired result of many users. Of course, you could always manually intervene with the hardware and disconnect or detach the actual camera too, or, as you’ll often see at some security related groups and InfoSec conferences, place some tape over the webcam. The camera component has stayed the same, and simply moving it from the folder is sufficient to prevent it from working completely. This works in all versions of OS X, from modern releases like OS X Yosemite, OS X Mavericks, to much older versions of Mac OS X software. The only downside to doing it through the Finder is that you can not create an ‘invisible’ directory to place the file in, so you’ll have to put the component elsewhere. If you’d rather avoid the command line, you can follow the same rough instructions above but using Command-Shift-G in the Finder to access the ‘Go’ command. Now any program that attempts to access the iSight will be unable to, instead the user will get the familiar message that the iSight hardware is already in use by another program, or the error message saying the camera is not connected and can’t be found: That’s pretty much it, if you want to enable the iSight again, simply move the ponent file back into the main QuickTime directory at /System/Library/QuickTime/.Reboot the Mac (a reboot is required to unload the component).(In case it’s not clear, there is a space between the two directory paths) Sudo mv /System/Library/QuickTime/ponent /System/Library/QuickTime/.iSightBackup/ Next, we will move the QuickTime component that allows the iSight to be accessed into the backup directory we just created.Mkdir /System/Library/QuickTime/.iSightBackup
Launch the Terminal and type the following command: If you don’t want the folder hidden from the GUI, just remove the.
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