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November 9, 2006

geekery

First Apple hardware trojan

Posted Nov. 9, ’06, 9:56 AM PT by Pat Nakajima
Category | Geekery

RacksA cunning Mac owner has crafted a script that was able to infiltrate Apple’s Tennessee repair facilities (they repair Macs there, not the state of Tennessee) under the clever guise of a Mac computer, then take pictures of some of the goings-on with his iSight camera. After taking the pictures, the script then automatically loaded the images to flickr, where he was able to fill in some metadata.

Apparently, the creator of this script, known to flickr as OmegaStation, became a bit anxious that Apple wouldn’t appreciate his self-guided tour of their repair facilities. As a result, most of the images that were on the page have been removed. However, it’s still another neat way to use the integrated iSight on these newfangled* Intel Macs.

*Newfangled that is, until I get one

[via digg]

Update: Added missing links


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