The idea of Mark Zuckerberg was to celebrate the fact that Instagram reached 500 million users.
But when the Facebook founder -a company owned Instagram- published a photo of him holding a frame-style appearing social network to share images, the watchful eye of a user of Twitter did not notice her freckled face or 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 often tweeting on technology.
” cover camera with tape. microphone input tape deck. Your service Thunderbird email is “.
In fact, an approach to the photo reveals that laptop has the 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 like shit” he wrote Gizmodo specializing in technology page.
“It’s so paranoid about hackers like the rest of us,” headlined the British tabloid The Mirror. “Even Mark Zuckerberg covers your MacBook camera and audio input with pieces of tape,” he said for his part one version of the Huffington Post.
So far neither Facebook nor his boss has made no comment.
Other celebrities who use also
the creator of Facebook is not alone in using such rudimentary methods to preserve your privacy.
in April, the FBI director James Comey 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,” he 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- camera images of millions of users of Yahoo chats without their consent, through a secret program called “Optic Nerve”.
a year earlier, an investigation of BBC Radio 5 found portals where hackers exchanged photos and videos of people capturad or s not knowledge of these.
hackers attack webcams 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 Surrey, England, Alan Woodward.
“ makes perfect sense to put tape on the camera “.
but it’s your computer?
in the case of Zuckerberg, some asked genuinely if the desktop pictured in reality they where Facebook founder feel.
“we are sure it’s your desktop. 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 of Facebook of wood and a 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 about ten days ago showing the room conference which was scheduled 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 himself.
“ you can see my desk right outside, also with everyone ” he added.
One of those rooms transparent walls seen in the photo of Instagram the background.
This makes it at least plausible to think that it can be his worktable as it is in an open space and not in a closed office.
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