Built-in Facetime HD camera not working

My MacBook Pro Retina's (mid 2012) build in camera just works sometimes. After doimg many SMC resets or killing VDCAssistan processes, I've realized that the problem boils down to the device name of the camera.
Here's the situation. When you open System Information and look at the USB section, you're normally supposed to see
"Apple FaceTime HD Camera"
But when the camera is not working in Facetime, Photobooth or Skype the name I see in my USB device list is ViMicro USB Camera(358boot) and the device is identified as
Vimicro USB Camera(358boot):
  Product ID:          0x3580
  Vendor ID:          0x0ac8  (Z-Star Microelectronics Corporation)
  Version:           0.10
  Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer:          Vimicro
  Location ID:          0x1a110000 / 3
  Current Available (mA):          500
  Current Required (mA):          500
That is a clear indication that OS somehow uses a trick to identify this camera as Apple Facetime HD. I was first concerned that iy was a hardware issue, but then I'm convinced that all the applications look for a "Facetime HD Camera"
14.08.2013 11:24:42,642 VDCAssistant[408]: VDCAssistant:  Found a camera (0x1a1100000ac83580) , but was not able to start it up (0xe00002c0 -- (iokit/common) no such device)
14.08.2013 11:24:42,642 VDCAssistant[408]: VDCAssistant::DeviceArrived  Got error (0xe00002c0), waiting to see if the device shows up again
I'm pretty sure that this is a software issue and started after upgrading to 10.8.4 from 10.8.3 I'm looking forward for apple to fix this. All other remedies are just temporary and does not fix the issue

The problem arises from permission problems on the files/devices the VDCAssistant process tries to access. It's always a good idea to do a "Check Permissions" with Disk Utility on the startup disk after every version update.

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