Is Mavericks' iSight camera always watching? Not exactly

This morning, coder Jonathan Wight has turned up a surprising feature in OS Mavericks, a chunk of code that seemed to reset idle time whenever the computer sensed movement. Did that mean the iSight camera was always on, opening up the same privacy concerns that have dogged the next-generation Kinect? Further tests from curious Twitter followers revealed the trick wasn't working through the iSight camera but through the light sensor placed just to the left.

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