Large Scale Hack Results in Nude Photes of Celebrities on the Internet

[Martinus]

Who?  I'm pretty sure most of Languish is retrograde, misogynist and proud of it.

Well it was more of a general comment.

[Ideologue]

I thought you meant me.  I don't white knight.  Women are dysfunctional machines, like everybody else.

[Martim Silva]

I suppose all these pictures would be rather more interesting if I had any idea on who those young ladies are.

Maybe they showed up in a movie or two I've seen, but in truth... their names and faces don't ring a bell.

Now, if you excuse me, I'll be at a corner, felling like 800 years old.   

[Sheilbh]

It's funny how people who consider themselves decent and "white knights", or complain about rape jokes etc. go and watch these pictures and see nothing wrong with that. 

Or for that matter who moan about the NSA violating privacy rights

[alfred russel]

Or support wikileaks?

[Ideologue]

S, that's a good Goddamned point.

Spying is okay if it's by private individuals and it's somebody's private parts!  But spying is bad if it's Chinese saboteurs, or, paradoxically, the responsible guardians of our nation's security.

[Admiral Yi]

I suppose all these pictures would be rather more interesting if I had any idea on who those young ladies are.

Maybe they showed up in a movie or two I've seen, but in truth... their names and faces don't ring a bell.

Now, if you excuse me, I'll be at a corner, felling like 800 years old.   

Jennifer Lawrence (the one with the baby face and shaved cooter) played the bimbo in American Hustle.

[Jacob]

My opinion is that a celebrity is completely negligent in uploading nude pictures to the cloud. Some of those pictures are conceivably worth 7 figures--certainly well in the 6 figures--in the right venue. Half the world wants access to them. I'm excluding the possibility of Apple affirmatively taking on the risk in a contract.

I'm guessing a large part of the legal profession will disagree with me though.

I'm reasonably sure that iPhones (and iPads) back up your photos on the cloud automatically, and if they don't do it automatically it's heavily suggested in that "click this button once, it's for the best" way that Apple has.

I'd wager that most people with iGadgets have their photos backed up on Apple's cloud servers, and that many of them have no idea.

Personally, I thought only the pictures I set to "shared" were on the cloud, but it appears that all of them are backed up for my convenience.

[Jacob]

I heard it mentioned elsewhere on the net that the people who released these photos have a whole bunch of material - documents, photos, etc - from the servers and that they only released the celebrity nudies to draw some attention, but that more stuff will be released in the future (unless money changes hands).

If that's true, it seems we're talking straight up organized crime.

[Jacob]

It's funny how people who consider themselves decent and "white knights", or complain about rape jokes etc. go and watch these pictures and see nothing wrong with that. 

Yeah, that is funny.

Do you have anyone particular in mind?

[mongers]

I won't be clicking on those links, not so much because of ethics, but to avoid suspect websites.

I'm a bit like MS, I don't think I've heard of any of those actresses. 

Besides what's the big deal, it seems normal now for most actresses to have to get their kit off at some point in their careers, so I guess there's already plenty of nude photos of them floating about cyberspace.

[grumbler]

I didn't look at them, because if I want to see porn, I want to see pro subjects photographed by pro photographers.  Amateur porn isn't like amateur (HS/college) football; there's no emotional tie to nude amateur porno types.

[Liep]

I heard it mentioned elsewhere on the net that the people who released these photos have a whole bunch of material - documents, photos, etc - from the servers and that they only released the celebrity nudies to draw some attention, but that more stuff will be released in the future (unless money changes hands).

If that's true, it seems we're talking straight up organized crime.

I thought they had already found out that it was a 15 year old kid who thought he could make some quick bitcoins.

[CountDeMoney]

I didn't look at them, because if I want to see porn, I want to see pro subjects photographed by pro photographers.  Amateur porn isn't like amateur (HS/college) football; there's no emotional tie to nude amateur porno types.

grumbler got tired of cranking the mutoscope handle.  NOW IN STEREOSCOPE!

[viper37]

Yeah I seemed to have missed all this fun.

They're still there. It's the internet, nothing ever leaves, especially not nude celebrity pictures.

Though I do regret that visit to the sewers of the internet that, perhaps rightly, 4chan has been dubbed; these celebrities are fucking weird. Who keeps blowjob pictures on an iCloud account? Jeez, I thought I was looking for, at most, a naked mirror selfie or something, not.. that.

All your iPhone/iPad's content is uploaded to iCloud by default, if you don't configure it otherwise.
You think it's a good idea to back up your settings and apps at first, and then you forget it uploads your photos after a while because nobody ever checks its iCloud account.