Zuck covers up mic and webcam because sharing isn't always good A PR snapshot of Mark Zuckerberg's desk has shown quite how seriously the king of the information sharing economy takes his own privacy. On Tuesday, the Behoodied One shared an at-work picture to celebrate hitting 500 million active monthly users on Instagram. But a closer look by California startup employee Chris Olson shows …
I really do! I audit access to certain kernel modules and device nodes. TBH I only did it as a proof of concept. After six months of non use, I compiled out support for the webcam and added some rather odd UDEV rules that make it unlikely that it will work without me noticing 8)
I'm far more scared of my internet connected telly. It's on the SEWER VLAN for devices that scare me more than "THINGS" and has to run the gamut of a lot of firewall rules. It does regular port scans and discovery sweeps, probably to enhance my viewing pleasure. Cheers Samsung.
Never ascribe to malice ... yes, I think you are almost certainly right: the reconnaissance is probably to try and round out a customer profile, rather than anything else.
I have to say I was quite taken aback when I found the anti virus update settings on it and suddenly realised I had bought a really thin wall mounted computer, with a microphone built in.
I must get around to seeing if I can man in the middle it or something but to be honest it's pretty low on the list of stuff to do. Oh dear, I'm doing the general user "meh" thing.
I have to say I was quite taken aback when I found the anti virus update settings on it and suddenly realised I had bought a really thin wall mounted computer, with a microphone built in.
I was a bit taken aback when I discovered that the one of the hidden menu items on my TV enabled a CLI. Mind you I couldn't do much with it as it doesn't have a USB socket so no way for me to attach a keyboard. I can only assume that either there's a hidden USB socket inside or perhaps someone makes keyboards that use an HDMI cable.
Years ago I did a quick web searches to identify a cameras that worked with Linux before purchase. Now, they just work until I tape them over.
There were rumours that Microsoft put pressure on OEMs to select standards compliant UVC cameras. If this is true, then a big thank you to Microsoft for doing something constructive.
Your CMS is cropping out the two things the entire article is about.
Here's a link to the uncropped image which shows the offending tape over the camera and the two microphone holes that can be found on the side.
Whether it is tbird or Cisco VPN client, the following:
"The picture also appears to show that Zuckerberg is running Thunderbird. It kind of makes sense – when Zuck cut his coding teeth, Mozilla's email client was very popular and nostalgia is a powerful force in software."
Nostalgia nothing. It is because it is the only decent Email client out there.
I would love to have a decent email client for Windows, but these days we're pretty much stuck with Thunderbird or Outlook. Nothing else really works or is actually productive.
I hated myself for leaving Eudora for Outlook, but the shift to badly formatted HTML mail pretty much killed it.
Sad days.
Pegasus still works just fine. It's a very, very good email client and dumb as rocks when it comes to dangerous content. It can't play Flash or the zillion other corruptible things so if you get sent a dodgy one it cannot get launched. Whatever comes in is just attached data. KISS rules.
The Bat? I've been using it since version 1.x, not long after it was first released in 1998, converting from Eudora after seeing a review in PC Mag. I occasionally think about trying something new, but haven't found anything with the same powerful filtering and template capabilities and a focus on mail management rather than a flashy UI. It is still actively developed.
Knowing that others might take control of a connected webcam, I intentionally purchased a brand/model that was very popular at the time & thus almost certainly sure to have code out in the wild to hack it. It had a nice long USB cable & little gripper feet so you could perch it atop a monitor while it was plugged into a computer tower that might be located under a desk, which made the next step very easy. I built a tiny diarama of a bedroom scene so that it looked almost tromp loi (trump loi? I can never remember the spelling, damn my old age) & set the cam inside. I put a naked Barbie & Ken doll inside in various interesting positions, & ran porn music inside to give the cam watchers something to listen to as the little voyeur's got their rocks off. It was always fun to watch the network traffic monitor spike like an EKG on a Speedball surge as the bastards kept waiting to see if "the people in the feed" (Barbie & Ken under a blanket) would actually start rompin & ruttin. Then I'd turn the cam to point at a sign I'd put on the back wall of the diarama that read "I know you're watching, I've recorded your IP, & now I'll be sending in the goons to beat the shit out of you. Have a nice day, at least what's left of it!" I'd laugh my ass off as all the traffic suddenly vanished as IP address' dropped off like rats abandoning ship.
I wish I could still see so I could do more shit like this. Now I can't see to make sure the diarama looks right & so have to make do with redirecting their traffic to CSPAN instead. *Sigh* It sucks being blind. =-j
Interesting. Whatever happened to "privacy is no longer a a social norm"?
What's that? "Do as I say, not as I do." Oh. Well, that's allright then. As you were.
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