Facebook — a company that is evenly known for surveilling an enormous belt of mass , and for accidentally exposing their data in one means or another — transport “ ten-spot of thousands ” of its Oculus Touch controllers with some merriment hide messages written inside them , like “ liberal Brother is Watching . ” Haha . It ’s a laugh . About surveillance . From that book ? And you know , Facebook is a giant surveillance auto . Hey , where are you work ?
Facebook ’s head word of VR Nate Mitchell corroborate this picayune whoopsie onTwitter , stating these goofemups — which admit other phrases like “ This Space for Rent , ” “ The Masons Were Here , ” and “ Hi iFixit ! We See You!”—were only intended for prototype units . An inside jape , if you will . Please laugh .
The substance on final production hardware say “ This Space For Rent ” & “ 👁 The Masons Were Here . 👁 ” A few dev kits shipped with “ 👁 Big Brother is Watching 👁 ” and “ Hi iFixit ! We See You ! 👁 ” but those were circumscribe to non - consumer units . [ 2/3]pic.twitter.com / po1qyQ10Um
Photo: John Locher (AP)
— Nate Mitchell ( @natemitchell)April 12 , 2019
The masons are , one imago , a credit to the Freemasons , a brotherly establishment a number of conspiracy theorizer assign oversized influence too . ( Facebook is among the platforms that have taken blast for helping tospreaddivisiveconspiracist content , so the joke has spirit level . ) Likewise , iFixit is a well - respected tech teardown and repair organization . This is not the first fourth dimension Facebook has take a shot at a technology site andfaceplantedpublicly . Hah . Ugh . Man , these guy cable ca n’t go a day without blockade themselves .
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