{"id":22749,"date":"2016-06-26T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22749"},"modified":"2016-06-26T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T20:00:32","slug":"nytimes-mark-zuckerberg-covers-his-laptop-camera-you-should-consider-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22749","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Mark Zuckerberg Covers His Laptop Camera. You Should Consider It, Too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/23\/technology\/personaltech\/mark-zuckerberg-covers-his-laptop-camera-you-should-consider-it-too.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=c-column-middle-span-region&#038;region=c-column-middle-span-region&#038;WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region\">Mark Zuckerberg Covers His Laptop Camera. You Should Consider It, Too.<\/a> by Katie Rogers:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; In a photo posted to [Zuckerberg&#8217;s] Facebook account, he celebrated the growing user base of Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. An eagle-eyed Twitter user named Chris Olson noticed that in the image\u2019s background, his laptop camera and microphone jack appeared to be covered with tape.<\/p>\n<p>Other publications, including Gizmodo, used the tweet to raise the question: Was this paranoia, or just good practice?<\/p>\n<p>The taped-over camera and microphone jack are usually a signal that someone is concerned, perhaps only vaguely, about hackers\u2019 gaining access to his or her devices by using remote-access trojans \u2014 a process called \u201cratting.\u201d (Remote access is not limited to ratters: According to a cache of National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, at least two government-designed programs were devised to take over computer cameras and microphones.)<\/p>\n<p>Security experts supported the taping, for a few good reasons:<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So can law enforcement with an eavesdropping warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Mark Zuckerberg Covers His Laptop Camera. You Should Consider It, Too. by Katie Rogers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22750,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22749\/revisions\/22750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}