How can i disable my iMac webcam green led ?

i work in night. i need to turn off webcam green led , because make hurt for my eyes.
how can i disable my iMac webcam green led ?

I believe the LED cannot be disassociated from the camera being on. This hard wiring is important to protect the user from being videoed without their knowledge.
If the small green dot hurts your eyes, you should see an optometrist who may be able to help your heightened sensitivity, with special glasses of some kind.

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I got Arch Linux running on a Samsung Q45 Danyal here which works pretty fine.
Since I'm trying to run it at the least powerconsumption possible when on the road
I wrote a small bash-script to handle things:
#!/bin/bash
hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0
echo 5 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000:02:00.0/power_level
mount -o remount,relatime /
hdparm -B 10 -S 12 /dev/sda
echo 10 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
Now when I'm running powertop it says that I should activate USB-autosuspend
since my webcam causes some serious amount of wakeups (about 1.5 W less with
USB-autosuspend on). The thing is - I don't need that webcam at all and I didn't find
a way to integrate this option into my script, so I always run my script (I integrated it
into /etc/acpi/events/battery and lm_battery, but it isn't executed automatically, so I
have to start it by hand all the time) and then powertop to disable the webcam/activate
autosuspend when on battery.
Is there a way to disable the webcam completely, so I wouldn't need to deactivate
it at all? Or how can I integrate USB-autosuspend into my powersaving script?
Another point would be firefox - it causes about 35% of wakeups when idle...thats
definately too much in my opinion - any ideas about that?
A last question would be - how can I deactivate the display? My last notebook had
such a fancy Function-Key doing that for me...with this one this isn't the case (at least
I couldn't find one). Is there a way of defining my own shortcut to disable/reenable the display?
Lots of questions I know...and I appreciate every help and suggestions/improvements
for my powersaving-script

Could you help me find out which module I have to blacklist?
bash-4.0# lsmod
Module Size Used by
aes_i586 8100 1
aes_generic 27204 1 aes_i586
cpufreq_stats 5256 0
tun 13732 0
i915 183432 2
drm 154752 3 i915
i2c_algo_bit 5864 1 i915
video 19768 1 i915
output 2884 1 video
ipv6 277908 18
reiserfs 247304 1
joydev 10432 0
wmi 6568 0
pcmcia 36268 0
sdhci_pci 7300 0
sdhci 17096 1 sdhci_pci
mmc_core 52576 1 sdhci
ohci1394 30292 0
ieee1394 85836 1 ohci1394
yenta_socket 25136 1
rsrc_nonstatic 12292 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 35128 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ricoh_mmc 3812 0
sg 27896 0
psmouse 59644 0
i2c_i801 9688 0
i2c_core 22776 4 i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
intel_agp 27484 1
agpgart 32756 3 drm,intel_agp
pcspkr 2404 0
serio_raw 5704 0
ehci_hcd 35856 0
iTCO_wdt 10952 0
iTCO_vendor_support 3080 1 iTCO_wdt
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thermal 13888 0
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button 5588 0
battery 10984 0
ac 4360 0
evdev 10176 7
snd_hda_codec_realtek 206536 1
snd_seq_dummy 2696 0
snd_seq_oss 31168 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7012 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 53744 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6768 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 26696 4
snd_hda_codec 71716 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 7624 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 40352 0
snd_pcm 73768 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21068 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8844 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 17540 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd 58404 17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 6784 1 snd
arc4 1732 2
ecb 2788 2
iwl3945 80680 0
iwlcore 96196 1 iwl3945
rfkill 10640 2 iwlcore
mac80211 182880 2 iwl3945,iwlcore
led_class 3976 3 sdhci,iwl3945,iwlcore
cfg80211 67300 3 iwl3945,iwlcore,mac80211
sky2 47208 0
cpufreq_powersave 1380 2
acpi_cpufreq 8688 0
freq_table 3716 2 cpufreq_stats,acpi_cpufreq
processor 35864 3 acpi_cpufreq
rtc_cmos 11244 0
rtc_core 18048 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 2500 1 rtc_core
ext3 135340 1
jbd 48856 1 ext3
mbcache 7112 1 ext3
sd_mod 27808 4
sr_mod 16676 0
cdrom 36032 1 sr_mod
ata_piix 23112 3
ata_generic 4680 0
pata_acpi 4228 0
libata 168460 3 ata_piix,ata_generic,pata_acpi
scsi_mod 110580 4 sg,sd_mod,sr_mod,libata
bash-4.0# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ac8:c302 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Vega USB 2.0 Camera
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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Decided to setup the mail for exchange on my N8 so I could see my work emails. Worked like a charm but after a couple of hours decided I didn't like being that contactable so deleted the mailbox.
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My N8 works fine on security setting and able to define Phone auto lock period, by choosing Menu>Settings>Phone>Phone management>Security settings>Phone and SIM card>Phone auto lock period>User defined>Lock after(minutes)
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Hi,
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