[ale] creepy hardware

[Chuck Payne]

Jim,

Sorry like that Mac have something installed on it, because we have tons of
the new macs and the camera are off until used.  Maybe your developer went
peep site and got inflected.

I know openSUSE 13.1 runs nice on the new hardware.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm wiping a nearly new mac book pro turned in by a departing developer.
>
> The built in camera is ALWAYS ON. It's used to determine the ambient light
> levels to automagically adjust the screen brightness. No indicator light is
> on. If I cover the camera with a tiny bit of foil, the screen dims. If I
> turn on photobooth, the indicator lights up that the camera is on.
>
> So it appears to have software-only controls over the "don't be naked
> here" light.
>
> Yep. Wiping this thing off completely and slamming on Fedora 21 beta.
> Can't see using it just out of the shower when I need to look up something
> real quick otherwise.
>
> Unless google really wants more data than they can republish :-)
>
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> James P. Kinney III
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