What I want is a program that will display goatse at a random time, take a picture 1 second later (just enough time for it to sink in), and then upload it to an ftp server for all to see.

Then I will distribute the software for people who want to pull pranks on their unsuspecting friends. "Can I use your computer?"

"Sure, just let me start this program real quick..."

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reminds me of one of the characters in neal stephenson's 'cryptonomicon' who set up the same thing as a security measure. brilliant book btw.

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Great app. Can you get it to snarf the IP address at the time it takes the snap too. This would assist slightly in tracking a stolen laptop. Maybe you could munge the IP in a form 81_23_100_29 and use it in the image name.
The image name should contain the date/time string too.

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looks like a classic vacant "porn viewing" face, bottom-center.

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Honored to make the front page! Sorry about the 'porn faces' .. I have 30 seconds to delete queued photos until it uploads just in case I leave my wang exposed! Just joking.

A few notes ..

1. Some users may need to remove the "passive" command from script or get zero byte files depending on their FTP / Firewall setup.

2. The IP of the computer is recorded in the FTP logs on the webserver. Whether you have access to these is a different story of course.

3. All photo contain the regular EXIF data such as date / time etc.

If anyone has any other questions feel free to let me know. Its totally [CC] script though.. so go forth and improve! Would love to see what others do with this.

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Can someone tell me how to "chmod to 755". I am trying to follow the directions but am stuck, the iSight Auto Upload Script mentioned needs to be chmod to 755, do I do this in the terminal?

Thanks

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First you will need to download his script as a TEXT file. I don't think Safari will let you do this. So click on the link to his script and copy and paste it into Text Edit. Then click Format on th emenu bar and click Make Plan Text. Then save the file (e.g. iSightLoader).

Now open up Terminal and cd to the directory where this file is located. e.g. cd Desktop.

Now type "sudo chmod 755 iSightLoader"
You will be asked for your admin Password.

(You must be in an admin account to do all of this).

If you need more help type "man chmod" in the terminal.

Rob

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Now all he needs to do is drop this thing off on the nearest sorority house's front porch, and let the magic begin!

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Could someone help me setup the ftp settings, I have tried two different ftp accounts, neither of them received images. I have tried, as mentioned above setting turning of passive mode. I don't fully understand how .netrc works or if I have it on my system (Intel Macbook Pro OSX). I am new to scripting so please keep it simple.

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Or you could just download iAlertU. It works with the remote that comes with your computer and is sort of like a car alarm system...and it takes pictures when it is activated so see who was messing with your computer. There is a video of it on youtube, just type in ialertu...i have it for my computer and its great!

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I've created a slightly more advanced version of this script with instructions Here. My script has the following features:

- simple configuration at top of script. no need to hunt for variables to change.
- supports FTP or Form Post methods for uploading picture
- uses curl for FTP transfer - no more .netrc tinkering
- places all files in /tmp rather than user directory
- easily specify file format for pictures in one configuration entry
- appends user's IP address to end of image filename

Pardon the crufty old phpNuke site...

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OK, I give up. URLs are not posting properly. Go to www dot flatulentfish dot com, there's a link to it on the main page. If this gets clipped, I'm done trying.

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Hmm, clipped my post. Here's the url: MacCam!

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