Mavericks detects motion via light sensor to prevent system sleep

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By Cody LeeNov 1, 2013, 3:20 pm337 pts
Concerned Mac users took to Twitter this morning following the revelation of a chunk of code found in OS X Mavericks update that resets idle time when the computer detects motion. They feared this meant the iSight camera is ‘always watching.’ But as it turns out, that’s not the case at all. The code, which was…

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