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You can't? Here's a MacRuby script that can take a photo with your webcam: https://github.com/pioz/snappy.


Now, given the content of the article a moment ago, the question becomes: "Should I trust science_robot? Or is this a trojan?"


Well, just learn ruby and read the source code of snappy, then write your own camera activation code -> no problem. If you don't trust your link, go to the well known github website and search for the project yourself.

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