Security → Mark Zuckerberg tapes up his webcam

So this shows he can't even keep his own stuff secure yet, he wants all of our personal info stored with him?

He also covered the audio jack too?

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i'm guessing that his prominence and fame has something to do with that.
with a market based solely in scandal, fear, and tantrums -- if someone takes something he says/does out of context -- it could serve to affect him personally, as well as his financial well-being.

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"Today, as Instagram celebrated reaching 500 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo of himself enjoying the moment. But after he did, some sharp observers noticed another detail: the laptop on his desk, which seems to have a webcam wrapped up with tape.

Zuckerberg is apparently paranoid enough about hackers that he took the extra security step, in a move to shut down any prying eyes savvy enough to gain control of the camera. There also appears to be some sort of obstruction on his mic jack, although it's unclear what — tape, or some kind of dummy plug?"

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that he's not suffering from the same paranoia that regular folks feel but rather a concern over real corporate espionage. We're talking about the primary social platform of the entire planet with around $45 billion in total equity.

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that he's not suffering from the same paranoia that regular folks feel but rather a concern over real corporate espionage. We're talking about the primary social platform of the entire planet with around $45 billion in total equity.

... but at the same time, yea, he's probably being silly. If I were in the same position as him I'd just get a laptop that doesn't have a webcam. Or unplug it. Or disable it in the BIOS. Etc. Etc.

(some even come with camera block sliders), that means disabled device manager for mic/cameras,

if i was worth the gdp of a small nation -- i would do the same.

you can use like clear tape loosely placed over a mic to badly distort the sound to the point of it being impossible to tell what is being said. If you place it on tight like a drum you'll end up amplifying the sound lol

I had a crappy mic way back when and used a plastic cone and scotch tape to make basically a electronic stethoscope made the dang thing pretty directional as well

Most of the webcam paranoia came from the media blitz on ip web cams with default usernames and pass words that are accessable from the web which is sort of the point of having a ip web cam. Changing the pass etc should be done in most cases but lots of mom and pop shops should probably leave them wide open. Why not have few 1000 eyes watching your store? The one shop here has their cams all open to the net (ill try to dig it up) and one points at their sign out side with address and phone number. Funny thing is they had some one try to break in one night and got caught because some one was watching the cam lol.

Also a school district that was loading bloatware on school owned laptops that were issued to students to take home, it was found that there was software that would do a 24/7 stream from all the laptops to the school without turning on the light. The school was caught when they tried to expel some girl for something she did in her bed room. (um ya that school actually had a team monitoring the videos 24/7 and that meant they had school paid people watching kitty porn because the school said to.)

On February 20, 2010, Haltzman, Robbins' counsel, told MSNBC Live that Robbins had been sitting in his home eating "Mike and Ike" candy in front of his school-issued laptop. The attorney said that the vice-principal had accused Robbins of taking illegal pills after seeing him eating the candy in a webcam image. Michael Smerconish, a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist who reviewed the photo, said that it did in fact appear to be the same size and shape as Mike and Ike candy. Haltzman said that his client's laptop had not been reported stolen or lost. The lawyer also raised questions as to who in the school system decided when to activate each student's webcam, and for what reasons.

Ill have to pay more attention from now on to the circuits on other laptop screens and cams but my own that i took apart just to see and the hp i fixed both have simple relays for the light. Meaning it is impossible to not turn on the light when the web cam is on. Soon as there is power to the cam the light toggles on.

It wasn't quite that bad. See »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro ··· District

Executive summary...
* student eats some pill-shaped "Mike and Ike" candy
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* that is caught by the webcam and the vice-principal later accused the student of taking illegal pills

Actually this is what people think is true. But it is not the case again least on my chrome book and the hp. If the cam is recording streaming the light will be lit. Haven't checked the circuit for power though. Maybe ill check that here later today on my chromebook. I suppose it is possible for there to be soem power going through but not enough to trip the relay. The question then would be is that enough to power the cam to a state where it would be able to stream/record?