A photograph featuring founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has appeared with tape appearing to cover the microphone and webcam on his MacBook Pro.
The photograph appeared on Instagram and reached 500 million of the social media website’s users.
Facebook has not disclosed commentary requests for the photo, but it does show that even such a tech guru as Zuckerberg remains cautious when it comes to cyber crime.
Zuckerberg may be the most high-profile individual to support this idea, but according to Edward Snowden, he is not the very first to do so. Snowden said that the GCHQ was running a program by the name of ‘Optic Nerve’, which employed Yahoo! Online chats that captured millions of photos from users across the globe. FBI Director James Comey also says he applies tape across his webcam. For the full article click here
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