Shutting down i-sight camera for safety

We just got a new I-mac and we have teenage girls. The Apple store told us there is no way to shut down the i-sight camera under parental controls. Help!! Could we shut down the photo booth application as well as the i-chat AV? Any other ways they could sneak around that?? Ideas please!!

Welcome to Apple Discussions, safemom
Take a look at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5910178&#5910178
Because you use Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.x), you can use your Mac's System Preferences... > Parental Controls to limit some of your girls' activities such as Limiting the applications a user can access or Setting safe limits on instant messaging. When you have System Preferences... open, your Mac's System Preferences... > Parental Controls > Help > Show all results will give you more info on the available capabilities.
As far as other ideas go, don't neglect the Mail and Safari or other web browser apps. Even if you disable iSight, your girls could use any web browser to enter chat-rooms or other sites that you don't want them using, whether by mistake or not. In addition to words, mail can transmit video or still pictures. Depending on how determined they are, the best solution will still be careful parental monitoring.
EZ Jim
PowerBook 1.67 GHz w/Mac OS X (10.4.11) G5 DP 1.8 w/Mac OS X (10.5.2) External iSight

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