Apple, Apps, Management, Misc

Just a few days ago I had a meeting using webex screen sharing. To my surprise, the isight camera of my macbook was active during the whole conference. I searched in the settings of webex, but could not find anything to fix this misbehavior!

Googling for this problem showed that this is a known issue, but that it won't get fixed. See here a popular example: http://www.madanalogy.com/2008/08/webex-is-watching-you-and-cant-turn-it.html

I found my workaround. Before launching webex, I load photobooth! It reserves the the video stream, and I can confirm that webex, coming second, will just display a black screen. You can even quit photo booth, and see that the camera remains disabled.