Well, if some rando on the internet is going to dig through your trash, and write a blog post about it, than maybe you are famous enough to justify more paranoid security.
I'm fairly certain it is. Billionaires and their families are at a high risk of being kidnapped and ransomed. Then there are stalkers, and obsessives who might try to enter your home and endanger you and your family.
I imagine as CEO of Facebook he probably receives a lot of hate mail and possibly threats. Better safe than sorry.
Zuckerberg is also quite a private person (as you can probably tell from him buying up surrounding homes to distance himself from the neighbours) so scaring off journalists and paparazzi is probably an intended effect of his security detail.
The arrival time of PD is going to be minutes to tens of minutes in those cities depending on the severity gleaned by dispatch, and only from the time of _notification_ not the start of an incident.
I don't think it's unreasonable for someone of his wealth and fame to have 24/7 guards. Their primary duty would be to lessen that time of notification and dispatch of PD, and casually act as a deterrent.
Punk decides to tell almost everyone that he's going to go get Zuck's trash then unsurprisingly fails to do so. Ends with a rant that privacy is now only for the very wealthy. Nothing interesting at all.
I agree in the abstract that the story is pretty predictable, but some of the details are a bit unexpected and worth learning, and you don't really know that this kind of security stuff is real until you see it for yourself.
Specific things that I thought were interesting:
- Trash on the street is legally considered abandoned and fair game for anyone to take.
- Zuckerberg's house managed to get its entrance blurred out on Street View.
This is a fluffy story with no content. Basically the author visited two of Zuckerberg's residences, saw some security guys but no trash, and that was that.
There's plenty of content here, the most important part being the discrepenancy in privacy that Zuckerberg affords for himself, while he readily prmotes open transparency as the business model of his company, funnily illustrated in an attempt to steal Mark's trash.
A good idea for the disparaging commenters in this thread would be to pay attention to the moral of the story. Why do so many people trust a guy with their most private data who bulldozers the neighbouring houses just to keep the public out?
more facebook hater articles. its funny how someone can create the worlds largest social media site, then be blamed for created a mass surveillance system.
this article is a waste. this guy obviously has a hard-on for zuck.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 55.2 ms ] threadI imagine as CEO of Facebook he probably receives a lot of hate mail and possibly threats. Better safe than sorry.
Zuckerberg is also quite a private person (as you can probably tell from him buying up surrounding homes to distance himself from the neighbours) so scaring off journalists and paparazzi is probably an intended effect of his security detail.
I don't think it's unreasonable for someone of his wealth and fame to have 24/7 guards. Their primary duty would be to lessen that time of notification and dispatch of PD, and casually act as a deterrent.
Specific things that I thought were interesting:
- Trash on the street is legally considered abandoned and fair game for anyone to take.
- Zuckerberg's house managed to get its entrance blurred out on Street View.
I'm not sure what the best guide to opsec is, but this covers the basics decently: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-pro...
A garbage truck is pretty inexpensive at auction (i.e. Iron Planet). The op could be pulled off for a couple grand.
There's plenty of content here, the most important part being the discrepenancy in privacy that Zuckerberg affords for himself, while he readily prmotes open transparency as the business model of his company, funnily illustrated in an attempt to steal Mark's trash.
A good idea for the disparaging commenters in this thread would be to pay attention to the moral of the story. Why do so many people trust a guy with their most private data who bulldozers the neighbouring houses just to keep the public out?
Reminds me of the question in a Q&A "Mark are you a lizard?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x61_mGQciJE
this article is a waste. this guy obviously has a hard-on for zuck.