Why Has Mark Zuckerberg Put Tape Over His Camera?

by Robin Andrews

''Mark Zuckerberg, hoodie-wearing billionaire, philanthropist, owner of an incredibly fluffy dog, and CEO of Facebook, took a photograph of himself recently to celebrate Instagram growing to 500 million users, which is roughly three-quarters of the population of Europe. This Facebook-owned app, clearly, is ridiculously popular.

Some eagle-eyed perusers of the web, however, have noticed something slightly odd in the Zuckerberg selfie: He appears to have put some masking tape over his laptop. It looks like he’s taped over the laptop’s microphone too, as pointed out by some on Twitter. As reported by Gizmodo, Zuckerberg has sent photographs and videos of himself sitting and working by this exact desk before, so it’s likely his desk in this new photo.

So why is he appearing to commit this slightly strange act of tape-based anarchy? Well, as we reported just recently, the director of the FBI does precisely the same thing, because hackers have been known to break into people’s computers and access their webcams – something the FBI itself has been able to do for some time...''