It is an ADDITIONAL privacy step. He runs a company with thousands of employees, and with any company like that you never know if someone may decide to become a bad actor, and physically compromise him.

But yeah lets continue to hate on facebook.

Yes, because they're voracious collectors people's personal information. We can hate on "bad actors" as well, we don't have to choose one or the other. But as long as Facebook is behaving creepily, whether deliberately or inadvertently, let's hate on them. There is no reason to tolerate their mistakes.

Result will be the same

Stickers do not work - because people around you do not put it too magically

And what even sillier - that someone have phone with installed fb app in 2k19

What motivations of such people?

>Who here is defending "corporations"

dylan604 try to change focus of attention.

This is type of manipulation. And in this context, this is defence

>Do you think Facebook and their ilk are the only actors who might want to hijack the cameras on your devices?

Nope. But for some reason fb can't do QA. At all

And this do most of the work for other "actors"

Why this happens?

> This is type of manipulation. And in this context, this is defence

They do though.

Do everyone put it?

Mhhh, okay

http://money.com/money/4346766/mark-zuckerberg-houses/

And you still need to control your data

And you can't do that now effectively

And if people will defend corporations and hide its fu we will newer live in better world

Everyone, not just one person

Nice

Do a security properly

Do a code for security

Do QA properly

Do not hide thing like Cambridge Analytica

No, he’s not protecting himself from any external threat.

Sure, but they are protecting themselves from the Russian hackers that are in all the US government networks. Zuck is protecting himself from Facebook itself.

> > > [Camera shutters are] just good (paranoid?) OPSEC to defend against remote takeover exploits.

> > > [Camera shutters are] ... good ... [defense] against remote takeover exploits.

Clearly I misunderstood your intent, but the comment does seem to indicate what I thought.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Technical people know about this stuff, and designed it to trick people who don't know about it into thinking it's benign. But sure blame the user. Seems to be a favored go-to for Facebook.