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Steve Jobs, a finger, a Sniffer, and a legend ...

Sniffer found himself excluded from a Q&A session with Steve Jobs in Paris, because he had a camera. Readers have been explaining why Apple was sensitive ...

Mark Prewitt responds to our original story: "I have been around awhile.. The reason stems from a q&A session where Mr. Jobs reached up with hand and used his middle finger to push up his glasses onto his nose, as a person was asking a question he didn't want to answer."

He continues: "The video got widespread attention and people pulled out this snapshot and posted it for awhile ... basically, everyone felt that Steve had flipped off the person. Obviously, since then, video & snapshots have been very carefully monitored ... "

Apparently this was last year sometime.. "I am sorry I forget when.. If you check the MacSurfer archives you should find reference to it ... It was news for a few days.. It was even rebroadcast until Apple pulled the video."

Alas, the macsurfer web site appears to be down; if anybody can find a URL, please send!

Tom Santos reports what seems to be the same incident: "At the recent roll out of the xServe at the Cupertino Campus, Henry Norr asked Steve a question, and it appeared that Steve flipped off (Gave him the bird). If you contact Henry he can provide you the exact date and location at which this occurred."

Reader Rob-Arts recalls the same occasion: "I remember seeing an amateur video of Steve in a Q&A session where he was asked a loaded question. Before he answered, he pushed up his glasses with his middle finger. That was interpreted as the real answer to the question."

We'll pass over the (apparently serious) suggestion by reader Charlie Macchia, who suggests that cameras can often turn out to be guns in disguise ... and that it was, after all, the anniversary of 9/11. Heck, who cares about the ninth of November? and anyway there's two months to go ...