Disabling the Macbook iSight Camera

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I've been having problems occasionally with my iSight camera on my Macbook (running OS X 10.5) turning on (as indicated by the green light). I'm not using the camera for anything, so it's a little disconcerting that some random application might be looking at me and recording everything I do.

See TMO Quick Tip - Disabling a Built-in iSight Camera for a description of what I did. Here's a summary:

Open up a terminal and type these commands: 

cd /System/Library/QuickTime
sudo mv QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component/ QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component~/

My camera didn't turn off immediately after running this command, but I going to try to log off...

(Added Feb 2009: this didn't work for me at all -- I eventually solved this by taping paper over the camera instead)

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