It’s weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg’s trash

https://theoutline.com/post/3994/it-is-weirdly-hard-to-steal-mark-zuckerbergs-trash?zd=2&zi=uz46xzec

by prostoalex • 8 years ago

67 17 8 years ago

chrischen• 8 years ago

Is it normal for a billionaire to have so much security?

mic47• 8 years ago

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.

MarkCole• 8 years ago

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.

blackbagboys• 8 years ago

Well, they have the apparatus of the entire state protecting them, so the guys directly on the payroll are mostly just for show.

kev0092• 8 years ago

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.

bdamm• 8 years ago

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.

decasia• 8 years ago

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.

rb2k_• 8 years ago

Somewhat hilariously, half of Germany is blurred on Street View. People can just request it in some countries.

dbtqgoat• 8 years ago

Thank you. Half way through and my patience was thinning. It was like an 8 year old trying to tell a story.

ipsum2• 8 years ago

This is non-news. Standard opsec is good for everyone, not just billionaires with creepy stalkers.

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...

halad• 8 years ago

This article has entertainment value only.

kev0092• 8 years ago

This was a pretty lame journalism reach and miss in totality but somehow the thought of actually retrieving Zuck's trash made me giggle with delight.

A garbage truck is pretty inexpensive at auction (i.e. Iron Planet). The op could be pulled off for a couple grand.

fenomas• 8 years ago

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.

anigbrowl• 8 years ago

That's basically the Outline in general. It's a boutique blog with animated decorators, funky colors, and a budget.

Barrin92• 8 years ago

This is a fluffy story with no content

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?

philfrasty• 8 years ago

"I reached out to a representative at Facebook to confirm how Mark Zuckerberg disposes of his garbage, but as of press time, they did not respond."

Reminds me of the question in a Q&A "Mark are you a lizard?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x61_mGQciJE

tanu057• 8 years ago

Gist of the story - "IF ONLY MARK ZUCKERBERG CARED ABOUT THE PRIVACY OF THE REST OF THE WORLD AS MUCH AS HE DID HIS OWN"

It’s weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg’s trash

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