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"there is no indication to the user at all that the camera is in use unless the app provides its own. There is no permission alert, nor any LED indicator like a webcam. An app could secretly be recording your face with the iPhone 4′s front-facing camera and sending it to who knows where."

http://www.bunnyhero.org/2010/08/17/thoughts-on-ios4-camera/

As a fellow iOS developer, I believe this is true. It's pretty amusing that there's a guy on the Apple Discussions forum claiming that this is impossible. Actually, it's very possible.



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