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How to disable webcam without voiding warranty?

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Some people worry too much. If anybody wants to hack my iOS devices, they would be very bored indeed watching me type on this forum.
I'd be more worried about the sound recording they can turn on remotely to listen to you whenever they want. Then when they decide your up to no good they track your movement and read your texts.
Whoever they are of course is a different matter. :D
 
Shrink said:
Apparently I was not clear in my post (reproduced above your Quote).

Let me try to clarify. I would like some supporting data, reliable source material or otherwise reliable evidence of your claim.

Asserting more ...er...questionable... claims is not providing support for your...ah....position.

Just a note...I know this is undoubtedly incredibly naive and short sighted on my part, but it is just barely possible a camera was included on these devices in order to allow the user to...wait for it...take pictures.

Silly, I know...
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That's the mirage the truth is hidden behind. Yes you can use those to take photos or video, do web chatting, Etc. which is all being promoted to the public when advertising these products. But behind that is the truth that these cameras are being used to survey people and know the 5 w's and How of the person at all times. Even GPSs in your phone are used by retailers to know what aisle you're in and how long to know what's popular and what's not. That also disturbs me.
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
That's the mirage the truth is hidden behind. Yes you can use those to take photos or video, do web chatting, Etc. which is all being promoted to the public when advertising these products. But behind that is the truth that these cameras are being used to survey people and know the 5 w's and How of the person at all times. Even GPSs in your phone are used by retailers to know what aisle you're in and how long to know what's popular and what's not. That also disturbs me.
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OK, Mate...no more requests for sources. Either you're having trouble with the concept, or...ah...finding supportive material is proving difficult.

And I can certainly understand that many things disturb you.

Good luck...:)
 
Shrink said:
OK, Mate...no more requests for sources. Either you're having trouble with the concept, or...ah...finding supportive material is proving difficult.

And I can certainly understand that many things disturb you.

Good luck...:)
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Well the world is a very disturbing place.
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
Truth hurts doesn't it? If you think about it logically it will make sense. To use a saying in the Apple community "iCal it". One day it will all come to a head and you'll know that myself and others were right.
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If there was any truth there beyond just (conspiracy) theories, then perhaps there might be something to it. As it stands, there's nothing to it.
 
bigpoppamac31 said:
That's the mirage the truth is hidden behind. Yes you can use those to take photos or video, do web chatting, Etc. which is all being promoted to the public when advertising these products. But behind that is the truth that these cameras are being used to survey people and know the 5 w's and How of the person at all times. Even GPSs in your phone are used by retailers to know what aisle you're in and how long to know what's popular and what's not. That also disturbs me.
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Chill dude. No one wants to see your stuff. Cameras are there for users to take pictures. My ancient laptops have webcams. All they would see from my idevices is me on my toilet.
 
gemnilocs said:
isn't the blaze something that Glenn Beck has something to do with?
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Pretty much everything.

The Inquirer also has stories about aliens being visited by ghosts.

Incomplete stories that omit information simply to attempt to grab headlines, which all these talking heads are really in for as everyone knows--certainly do not make for any important or useful, let alone factual, information.
 
Idefix said:
Can you provide a source for a Mac computer webcam being hijacked?
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Generally speaking through some cases like this: http://m.cnet.com/news/many-ways-to-activate-webcams-sans-spy-software/10457737

Basically either through some preinstalled software that allows for it or through exploiting some flaw in something on the computer, like Java for example, and installing some sort of software through that (when the user visits some exploited site or downloads and runs some file) that would do it. So no sort of built-in native way to secretly do it, but ways to do it through means mentioned above--ways that existed for practically any system since the early days.
 
na1577 said:
FaceTime can be disabled in the Restrictions menu in Settings. You can disable Apple's Camera app as well, but as far as I know the actual camera hardware can still be accessed through other apps.

The only way to truly prevent access to the camera is to have it removed through third party companies which will void the warranty.
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If you disable camera in restrictions no app can use it.

As for the OP, I wouldn't stress it. Unless you jailbreak your phone few of these remote tricks work. Despite what the movies and TV might suggest.

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chestvrg said:
Let me throw in my $.02. The government I'm pretty certain has the technology to access any part of our smartphones features if not at least most. Recently my iPhone 5 started acting up, very strange things it was doing. The camera light would turn on, music would start playing by itself, applications would open and I would always find started emails, with populated scribbles on the to, subject and header fields. Is is of someone that has access to these feature was having a fit doing this, just for fun. It is very scary, I had to reset my phone, did a clean restore and in the process lost a lot of information.
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If it was someone hacked into your phone, rather than just really borked IP software, they would just do it again after the wipe. But you don't claim it started up again
 
charlituna said:
If you disable camera in restrictions no app can use it.

As for the OP, I wouldn't stress it. Unless you jailbreak your phone few of these remote tricks work. Despite what the movies and TV might suggest.

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If it was someone hacked into your phone, rather than just really borked IP software, they would just do it again after the wipe. But you don't claim it started up again
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Yes if that is what it was, then yes you are right what would keep anyone with the skills to break into the phone. I can not confirm the phone was hacked or being traced by someone (I have nothing of much importance only my privacy), but I had never had an iPhone act that way before these anomalies were manifesting on the iPhone. And no, ever since the wipe it has stopped. What do you think really it could have been?
 
chestvrg said:
Yes if that is what it was, then yes you are right what would keep anyone with the skills to break into the phone. I can not confirm the phone was hacked or being traced by someone (I have nothing of much importance only my privacy), but I had never had an iPhone act that way before these anomalies were manifesting on the iPhone. And no, ever since the wipe it has stopped. What do you think really it could have been?
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A glitch of some sort, as happens many many times with any complex (and sometimes even not very complex) electronic devices?
 
C DM said:
A glitch of some sort, as happens many many times with any complex (and sometimes even not very complex) electronic devices?
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IOS7 is a very sophisticated OS, yes you could be right. I was also recently thinking about that thing iOS7 is supposed to do like predict what programs you use and launch them in the back ground so when you launch them they'll be loaded into ram or something like that. I read this somewhere I don't remember now.
 
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