The founder of Facebook posted a photo to celebrate Instagram reached 500 million users. But the image caught the attention of netizens for allegedly revealing some of the habits of Zuckerberg. We tell you what has been said
Photo: @topherolson / Twitter
Mark Zuckerberg’s idea was to celebrate the fact that Instagram reached 500 million users.
But when the founder of Facebook -a company owned Instagram- published a photo of him holding a frame-style social network appearing for share pictures, the watchful eye of a user of Twitter did not notice her freckled face or in his traditional gray shirt, but on the Mac B ook that appears at the bottom .
“Three things about this photo Zuck” wrote Chris Olson (@topherolson), a user with little more than 1,700 followers on the network of 140 characters and that frequently tweeting about technology.
“House covered with tape. Mic covered with tape. Your service email is Thunderbird “.
In fact, an approach to the photo reveals that laptop has camera and microphone input plugged with a piece of duct tape (duct tape).
This was enough to generate a storm in networks .
“Wow, Mark Zuckerberg is paranoid as m ..” wrote Gizmodo specializing in technology page.
“It’s so paranoid about hackers like rest of us, “headlined the British tabloid the Mirror. “Even Mark Zuckerberg covers the camera on your MacBook and audio input with pieces of tape,” said for his part one version of the Huffington Post.
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So far neither Facebook nor his boss has made any comment about it
Other celebrities who also use it
the creator of Facebook is not alone in using such rudimentary methods to preserve your privacy.
in April, FBI Director James Comey , he said at a session of questions and answers with students from Keynon College in Ohio, who had copied something he saw make someone “smarter” than he: “I put a piece of tape over the camera” said, according to NPR, public Radio United States.
in February 2014, the exanalista intelligence Edward Snowden revealed that security agencies in Washington and London intersected -hackearon- images camera million users chats Yahoo without their consent, through a secret program called “Optic Nerve”.
a year earlier, an investigation of BBC Radio 5 found portals the hackers exchanged photos and videos of people capturad or s not knowledge of these .
hackers attack web cameras using programs containing malware. If the user opens them, they can get control of the apparatus and other computer functions.
“There is so much malware that can access these physical components of the computer to watch and listen to users,” he told the BBC security expert at the University of Surrey, England, Alan Woodward.
“ makes perfect sense to put tape on the camera “.
But is your computer?
in the case of Zuckerberg, some of asked genuinely if the desktop pictured in reality they where Facebook founder feel.
“We are sure that is your desk. in a live video feed from Facebook published nine months ago, Zuckerberg took a tour of exactly the same desk against which appears in the photo, along with the same books, the symbol Facebook wood and sunblock “
said William Turton in Gizmodo.
BBC World did not find that particular video, but a photo at 360 degrees on the Facebook page of Zuckerberg makes a ten days shows the conference room where he planned to make a session of questions and answers.
“the glass walls are a symbol of our open culture, everyone can see what I’m working,” he wrote .
“ you can see my desk right outside, also with everyone ” he added.
One of those rooms transparent walls seen in photo of Instagram in the background.
This makes it at least plausible to think that it can be his worktable because it is in an open, not a closed office space.
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