troubledwine

There's quite a bit of alarm here and in the wording of the article. But no mention of HOW this exploit is applied. I mean surely they're not saying you send someone an e-mail and if they open it their webcam firmware is changed? Or visit a web page or have a flash banner ad run?

You'd have to get the user to download and run a package installer that prompts for an admin password RIGHT?

In other words; this isn't just something that can happen without end user interaction.

"I took a few of my youngest daughter, Eliza, then age 3, skinny-dipping in the lake, and my son, Noah, then age 8, swimming in the lake in his underwear, and another of Noah naked, hamming it up while using a long stick to hold his underwear over the fire to dry. Finally, I took a photo of everyone, as was our camping tradition, peeing on the ashes of the fire to put it out for the last time."

It'll only work on USB ports that support 10 watt charging.

It's explained pretty well here: http://www.macworld.com/article/150356/2010/04/ipadcharging....

I'm imagining a lot of tiny emo makeup in the cages.

Yup, mine works perfectly. They never messed with it. I'm using a 1st gen. iPhone with 3.0 software.