Apologies - I should have been more specific... my Macbook Air doesn't have a 
separate light sensor... it's in the same orifice as the camera lens.

R

Robin Wilton
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On 28 Feb 2014, at 14:54, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> 
> On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Suhas Nandakumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> (incidentally, if you're using a Mac and you cover the webcam lens, you'll 
>> need to turn off the automatic screen-dimming function. System Preferences 
>> -> Displays )
>> 
> 
> Not really -- the light sensor on many Macbooks, at least, is to the left of 
> the camera lens.  This just came up on Twitter; here's my set-up at 
> https://twitter.com/SteveBellovin/status/439412122410184704.  (I don't want 
> to clog the list with a large picture attachment.)  Yes, it works, and if you 
> find me here I'll show you what happens if I move the slide to the left a bit 
> more.
> 
> 
>               --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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