“One woman targeted by the California ‘sextortionist’ Luis Mijangos wouldn’t leave her dorm room for a week after Mijangos turned her laptop into a sophisticated bugging device,” Ars’ Nate Anderson wrote. Installing backdoors on compromised computers is a common way for some hackers to occupy their time.Īccording to a 2013 report in tech news site Ars Technica, sites such as Hack Forums contain threads full of people comparing and trading images of “slaves”, people whose computers they have broken into and taken control of. While Zuckerberg probably does have any number of advanced persistent threats trying to break his digital security, normal people shouldn’t be too complacent either. “I have no excuse for not taking this seriously … but at the end of the day, I figure that seeing me naked would be punishment enough.” Why doesn’t Matthew Green, an encryption expert at Johns Hopkins University? “Because I’m an idiot,” he told Yadron. Take the FBI’s director, James Comey: “I put a piece of tape over the camera because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.” The American digital rights group EFF sells webcam stickers, and told the Guardian’s Danny Yadron “people purchase these regularly”.Įven experts who don’t cover their cameras think they should.

But to be fair to Zuckerberg, he’s not the only one taking a look at his webcam and wondering if it’s worth the risk. Taping over the sensors and a particularly geeky mail client might seem paranoid. It may not even be Thunderbird that Zuckerberg has installed – others think it’s a Cisco VPN client. Unlike Firefox, though, it’s never really taken off in the wider world, and development has rather stalled in the past five years. Thunderbird is an email client, for what it’s worth, which is made by Firefox creators Mozilla. Gizmodo’s William Turton notes that it’s the same desk the Face-boss gave a tour of on Facebook Live back in September.) (And yes, that really does seem to be his laptop.

Email client is Thunderbird /vdQlF7RjQt- Chris Olson June 21, 2016

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