Proven that someone can hack your mac cam

Thank you for sharing this video @crua9! Very entertaining

I shared this with the Apple community, and they basically cried murder. Saying stupid stuff like this isn’t hacking, to a normal user is smarter then this.

Funny thing is, they really hated when I showed them a video I made a while back on how to take off adware off of a mac.

Trying to argue with fools… lol

They are just some brainless guys manipulated by the simple word “Apple”
Let them be in their stupid world of pseudo-security man

I played with a mac for about 3 months last year. Does macs even have an antivirus that comes with it?
I couldn’t find it when I had it

Mac = good graphism + fake Linux core = semi-shit

What else have you found while playing with this mac?

Horrible firewall. Again, I couldn’t even find an antivirus on there (and when I made that how-to remove adware, I didn’t even know I had adware on the mac). It’s a pain to find any security applications for it. And a few minor things.

But the thing to worry about with not even knowing you have malware on the mac until it’s too late is disturbing itself. Because of this, I made a rat and infected the mac through the crappy firewall with another bugged mac. (This is why it’s important to at least have a good detection system when you don’t know if the network you’re connecting to has infected devices.)
Anyways, the mac I was using got infected and there was no way of knowing that it was infected. To top it off, I was able to screw around with the stuff on the mac, and the security that is on the mac itself didn’t do crap to stop it.

I didn’t try to take over the camera or mic since that wasn’t my goal. But looking back, I think I could.

Unless if there was some special thing I don’t know about on how to protect the mac without being a security expert. Theoretically, all I have to do is infect 1 persons macbook with a rat, and that carrier will infect others in any starbucks, school, apple store, etc they connect to.
If I could then adapt the rat to infect iPhones, then it could easily screw over millions in a short time.
Obviously I destroyed the rat or anything showing how to make it (I was going to make a video on it, but I figure that’s going to put me in jail if I do). But, because I know it’s possible. There is no doubt in my mind someone has already done that, and may have infected an entire area. I mean all you have to do is take the infected mac to an air port or somewhere where a lot of people are going to connect. If you can somehow get it to infect iPhones, there would be no way of stopping it spreading.

Some people may say Windows has the same problem. The problem with that is Windows does have a stronger firewall by default. And second, it’s not that hard toe harden a Windows computer.

The big difference of course is that Microsoft has a big and imfamous history in this area. But even so, all we seem to be talking about here is the installation of malware with the aid of the user, which is pretty hard to protect against. As far as I know, it is also still a much bigger problem on Windows than it is on a Mac.

As for security on the Mac, all I did was one search and I found multiple security applications, as well as a security guide. Granted, I didn’t try any of it out.

It sounds to me like you have no idea how you actually got things infected, so to extrapolate from there and suggest you can easily infect “millions in a short time” is a bit much. I’ll be sure to watch the news, though, because I’m sure real hackers won’t be far behind you.

First off with why Windows has more of a problem. (and i know you may heard this a thousand times by now) but there is simply a hell lot more users on Windows then Apple. Because this crap could cause a black hat to be killed in some countries or sent to jail for a stupid long time. The black hat is going to pick the one they can get the most.
Aside from that, I’m pretty freaking sure some of this is caused by the user being told they don’t need anything on an Apple. Example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6258998?tstart=0

On top of that, I think the firewall was turned off by default. But that could’ve been just the one I was borrowing.

Now as far as the search. I might of forgotten the results or whatever because that was a year ago. Looking at it now, you’re right. There is a ton of good programs out there. So sorry about that.
But keep in mind, I’m not sure if the ratio of Apple users that do have anything protecting them is good.Again, the example above, and how stupid/trusting people can be.

I will admit that my knowledge is pretty limited when it comes to Apple security. But what I seen from this is disturbing.

To clarify what I meant with the first part of my response: because Microsoft has this history and number of users, it has had a good reason to finally put up its own defenses. And despite this relatively new security, users doing stupid things is still big enough of a problem on Windows that it dwarfs any issues on other platforms. People/companies/institutions don’t care about security until it seriously bites them in the ass.

So yes, I’m sure Apple suffers from that same problem, but that’s not a reason to make up wild stories based on vague experiences.