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Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by viro »

MichaelMcG wrote: post #124
khalilravanna wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Zuckerberg reportedly took action after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic. ... Zuckerberg will lease the four homes he just bought back to its current residents.” Not sure how this paints Zuckerberg in a bad light. The bad guy seems to be the developer who was going to use his fame to advertise, thus exposi…

>"I mean he left the people in their homes." This sounds more akin to a discussion about Oligarchs after the collapse of the Soviet Union than a discussion about an American CEO in California. Kind of eerie, even if you didn't intend it to sound that way.

Not really just kind of proves the point he didn't want people selling houses near him as. " buy now to live next to the. CEO of Facebook" that sounds like a HUGE safety problem for him AND his family.

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by greggturkington »

MichaelMcG wrote: post #124
khalilravanna wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Zuckerberg reportedly took action after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic. ... Zuckerberg will lease the four homes he just bought back to its current residents.” Not sure how this paints Zuckerberg in a bad light. The bad guy seems to be the developer who was going to use his fame to advertise, thus exposi…

>"I mean he left the people in their homes." This sounds more akin to a discussion about Oligarchs after the collapse of the Soviet Union than a discussion about an American CEO in California. Kind of eerie, even if you didn't intend it to sound that way.

Yeah Zuckerberg is now Boris Berezovsky amirite

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by MichaelMcG »

greggturkington wrote: post #132
MichaelMcG wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>"I mean he left the people in their homes." This sounds more akin to a discussion about Oligarchs after the collapse of the Soviet Union than a discussion about an American CEO in California. Kind of eerie, even if you didn't intend it to sound that way.

Yeah Zuckerberg is now Boris Berezovsky amirite

Maybe I should have said he sounded like a feudal lord, it doesn't matter to me. I wasn't diving into the circumstances, just the phrasing of that last sentence I quoted.

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by darig »

gefh wrote: post #127
ingenieros wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still nowhere as egregious as his shady attempt to buy out native land in Hawaii through proxy lawsuits: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/17/mark-zuckerb...

Hawaiian land ownership is a fragmented mess and this is not at all unusual. I hate fb as much as the next guy but this was not shady.

Being an apologist for a system that forces people to endure a fragmented mess is very shady, and very unusual.

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by OminousWeapons »

gtsop wrote: post #64

Funny comments, but jokes aside, I think we're missing a very obvious reason why he has signal. Mark most likely has contacts that are super high up in governments and coorporations who use signal since they can't trust any other app. People who say that he just tested out competition, I think you guys underestimate his technological knowledge and his resources waaay too much. If he wanted to do that he could have ea…

An even more obvious answer is he doesn't want his employees or his competitors to be able to monitor his private conversations which they would be able to do if he were to use most commercial messaging systems.

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by greggturkington »

MichaelMcG wrote: post #133
greggturkington wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah Zuckerberg is now Boris Berezovsky amirite

Maybe I should have said he sounded like a feudal lord, it doesn't matter to me. I wasn't diving into the circumstances, just the phrasing of that last sentence I quoted.

So the transfer of state-owned assets to oligarchs is the significantly comparable as buying four houses and renting them to their owners? Do you even know what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union?

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by dheera »

the-dude wrote: post #57
dheera wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Alas, microphones are not as easy to deactivate. Easier on desktops that don't have a built-in mic. I use a mic with a hardware power switch.

Mics don't use power. Pedantic, I know.

Mine does actually ...

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by ViViDboarder »

OminousWeapons wrote: post #135
gtsop wrote: post #64

Funny comments, but jokes aside, I think we're missing a very obvious reason why he has signal. Mark most likely has contacts that are super high up in governments and coorporations who use signal since they can't trust any other app. People who say that he just tested out competition, I think you guys underestimate his technological knowledge and his resources waaay too much. If he wanted to do that he could have ea…

An even more obvious answer is he doesn't want his employees or his competitors to be able to monitor his private conversations which they would be able to do if he were to use most commercial messaging systems.

They allegedly can’t monitor WhatsApp. That’s why this is news. Of WA is so secure (supposedly implementing the Signal protocol), then what use does ZuckerB have for Signal?

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by koheripbal »

OminousWeapons wrote: post #135
gtsop wrote: post #64

Funny comments, but jokes aside, I think we're missing a very obvious reason why he has signal. Mark most likely has contacts that are super high up in governments and coorporations who use signal since they can't trust any other app. People who say that he just tested out competition, I think you guys underestimate his technological knowledge and his resources waaay too much. If he wanted to do that he could have ea…

An even more obvious answer is he doesn't want his employees or his competitors to be able to monitor his private conversations which they would be able to do if he were to use most commercial messaging systems.

...and an even more obvious reason is that he just wanted to see what his competition looked like.

I bet the CEO of McDonalds has been to Burger King at least once to check out the customer experience. It really doesn't mean anything.

Re: Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

logicchains wrote: post #71
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #61

How dare you suggest Mark Zuckerberg is a hypocrite after said "Privacy is no longer a social norm", and then bought all houses surrounding his one. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-... https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes...

Maybe he bought the surrounding houses to make it harder for snipers? He's not exactly a popular guy, and there are a lot of guns in America.

He will be simply replaced with Mk 2.
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