Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Laptop Camera And Microphone (trunc)

International Business Times ^ | 22 June 2016 | David Gilbert

[Lorianne]

Given that he recently had the embarrassment of having his Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, it is really no surprise to learn that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking some additional security measures after he accidentally revealed he tapes over the camera and microphone of his laptop.

Celebrating Instagram's announcement Tuesday that it had grown to 500 million users, Zuckerberg posted a photo of himself at his desk with a cardboard cutout of the Instagram interface. Here's the photo:

[jennychase]

I also tape it. Its common practice.

[PAR35]

he tapes over the camera

Doesn't everyone? (Although some of my co-workers used yellow stickies, I preferred the tape since it allows a blurry image to get through so that it doesn't trigger automatic alerts that the camera isn't functioning. )

[jennychase]

Remotely, one can open webcam and speaker.

Lot of web meeting software and plugin comes with default webcam on. So its better to tape it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

You’re a fool if you don’t do this.

[gaijin]

I don’t understand the tape over the electric audio jack.

what what does this prevent?

I don’t understand.

[butlerweave]

There’s a little light that comes on when my camera is on

[Bogey78O]

That can be disabled in software.

[Boogieman]

It’s not over the audio jack, it’s over the Mac’s built-in microphone.

[Vendome]

I do as well.

I have also disabled them at Admin level...

[cherry]

I didn’t know it was common practice until an incident with my dtrs computer....its been taped ever since....

[Cementjungle]

I only use a desktop computer, and it doesn’t have a camera or a microphone.

[Talisker]

I only use a desktop computer, and it doesn’t have a camera or a microphone.

Look behind you...

[Cementjungle]

Look behind you...

Behind me is my wife and her computer, which doesn't have a camera or microphone either!

[VaRepublican]

and so do I.

[Rebelbase]

I use band-aids.

[LostInBayport]

I only use a desktop computer, and it doesn’t have a camera or a microphone.

Same here. And I put a little piece of black masking tape over the camera on the screen side of my cell phone.

[Nifster]

He is an idiot. He may know social media he does not understand hardware

[Nifster]

No it isn’t

[Nifster]

Only if your computer is on plus you have to give permission