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

[DontSayBanana]

One more advantage of SSDs: they don't leave a residual magnetic charge that needs to be overwritten to be erased completely.

[Josephus]

Bob Lefsetz:

The Nude Picture Scandal

How dumb can you be?

Excoriate Perez Hilton, come down on 4chan, but what I want to know is why these celebrities have nude photos on their phones to begin with?

Maybe I grew up in the dark ages, when you had to go to the porn shop to buy European magazines to see naked ladies, when it was a breakthrough when "Penthouse" printed pictures of women below the waist. But despite being aged, a veritable antique, I'm fully aware that if you don't want anybody to know anything, don't put it on the Internet!

No, let me restate that. If you're going to do anything illicit, do it alone, in the bathroom, in the dark.

Is it any wonder the public is interested in nude photos of celebrities? Isn't that what they're selling? There aren't that many unattractive actors and actresses in America. No, you won the gene derby, you worked on your craft and you made it. Congratulations! But do you have to be so dumb?

I mean exactly why do you need to take nude photos of yourself to begin with? When did that become the highest form of art? Ain't that America, where sex is taboo, but you flaunt your naked body nonetheless. I mean which way do we want it, European style, with naked boobies on the beach, or buttoned-up puritanical?

Oh, of course I feel sorry for Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton and the rest of the cadre whose names I don't recognize. But it really makes me wonder if they live in the real world. Are they so busy flying private and staying at the Four Seasons that they don't know what's going on?

There's a camera in every store..

There's a camera in the taxi.

There's a black box in your car.

And I believe we should definitely be debating privacy. But when I can go online and see a list of everywhere I've ever lived, the residence of my ex-wife, even the assets owned by my long deceased dad, I don't enter anything in a field that I don't want everybody to know.

Kind of like addresses... Want to buy something illicit on the Internet? Don't ship it to your home. That data is there...FOREVER! Kind of like Jennifer Lawrence's nude pics.

We've had leaked sex tapes, we've been living in this Internet era for nearly two decades, and suddenly we've got actresses stunned that their data isn't safe?

You never got your phone stolen? You've never lent it to another to take a picture? If you're famous, no one's ever snapped a photo of you without asking first? Hell, this has happened to me, and my fame can fit in a thimble compared to that of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton.

That's the society we live in.

As for iCloud... Read this story:

"The Police Tool That Pervs Use to Steal Nude Pics From Apple's iCloud"

Furthermore, Google keeps your search history. So when you're at home, surfing porn, know that you are not alone, big brother is watching.

So what are we gonna do about this?

SELF-POLICE!

This was a crisis on Facebook a few years back. Drunken pics of college students went on their permanent record and prevented them from getting jobs. Did we beat up the corporations for using this data? Hell, we couldn't even get Facebook to give an adequate response. No, we educated ourselves and stopped posting that information. A big activity became scrubbing photos from Facebook the night after a party. Everybody woke up.

Why can't the actresses involved in this scandal wake up?

The last time I checked I had a body. Not that I'm proud of it. But I'm not taking naked photos of it and sending it to my girlfriend, because then they'd exist. On my phone, in the cloud, on my computer. If someone wanted to blackmail or humiliate me...

And I'm not demanding my girlfriend send me these photos either. I can get enough of her live.

Come on, Snapchat is all the rage because it evaporates, however imperfectly, and famous people get a pass for taking permanent photos and being astounded they leaked? THAT'S HOW THE INTERNET WORKS!

Perez Hilton has proven he's got no morals. He's a product of the Internet era, where personal fame is everything. Your brand trumps your talent and if you cross the line you apologize.

But if we stopped clicking on the links, he'd go out of business.

But we can't help ourselves. Because we're animals, human beings, with curiosity and desire. We love gossip because it's about us, people. We're evaluating others' fashion choices and word choices and love choices all the time, frequently modeling ourselves after them.

Furthermore, the Internet is filled with nobodies posting their own naked photos in an effort to get famous. Just Google your favorite predilection, photos and videos will come right up.

But no, the famous are inviolate.

Anthony Weiner resigns from Congress because he doesn't understand Internet privacy and makes poor choices but Hollywood is immune?

Hogwash.

[garbon]

What an incredibly silly op-ed.

[DontSayBanana]

What an incredibly silly op-ed.

The author's got a point.  This should be common sense by now: 1) don't put your nudie pics online, and 2) be aware that all iPhones (and many other cell phones, as well) default to backing your pictures up online.

[garbon]

What an incredibly silly op-ed.

The author's got a point.  This should be common sense by now: 1) don't put your nudie pics online, and 2) be aware that all iPhones (and many other cell phones, as well) default to backing your pictures up online.

Sure but at the same time, it isn't their fault if someone decides to hack into their accounts and distribute said photos.

[DontSayBanana]

Sure but at the same time, it isn't their fault if someone decides to hack into their accounts and distribute said photos.

Nice strawman.  Nobody's saying it's the celebs' fault that the photos were leaked, just that the response is disproportionate given that common sense should dictate a minimum level of assumed risk in keeping private photos on online devices.

[garbon]

Sure but at the same time, it isn't their fault if someone decides to hack into their accounts and distribute said photos.

Nice strawman.  Nobody's saying it's the celebs' fault that the photos were leaked, just that the response is disproportionate given that common sense should dictate a minimum level of assumed risk in keeping private photos on online devices.

The response is disproportionate? Disproportionate to what exactly? We are of course talking about how their accounts were hacked and photos they didn't entire to share with the world were made public.  Because hacking is something that can take place, no one should be concerned when it is used to divulge a large amount of private stuff?

But sure, of course. The best way not to have nude photos leaked is to not take them. So?

I call the op-ed silly as it tells us nothing that we don't all know but somehow tries to take that info to minimize what happened . 'How can they be so outraged at was bound to happen' is what it seems to suggest.

[Siege]

That's it. I aint using smart phones or computers ever again.

[Barrister]

That's it. I aint using smart phones or computers ever again.

Thank God.

[Ideologue]

I demand you acknowledge my compliment.

[Eddie Teach]

That's it. I aint using smart phones or computers ever again.

Thus preventing the Siegularity from ever happening.

[The Brain]

What an incredibly silly op-ed.

Yes.

[Josephus]

If you leave your house unlocked and someone steals your TV...you should take some of the blame. Not saying the thief bears no culpability.

[Grey Fox]

Apparently one of the celebrities who had nude photos on the web was McKayle Maroney, of 2012 London Olympics "pouty face" fame.

Trouble is she only just turned 18, and the nude photos that were hacked and released were when she was under 18.  Which means they were child porn, and anyone who distributed those pics is guilty of distributing child porn.



I hope they nail those pervs to the wall.

and she's guilty of producing child porn. I hope she also rots in jail. The law is the law.

[grumbler]

If you leave your house unlocked and someone steals your TV...you should take some of the blame. Not saying the thief bears no culpability.

Not an analogy.  If you lock you house, and someone steals your TV, and some guy on the internet argues that, "if you didn't want your TV set stolen, you shouldn't have bought one," should you take some of the blame?

If you put money into a mutual fund, and someone embezzles your money, and some guy on the internet argues that, "if you didn't want your money stolen, you shouldn't have made money," should you take some of the blame?

These people were not careless.  They were robbed after trusting protections that authoritative figures promised them were adequate.  The onus for this crime lies on the perps, and if anyone else should take "some of the blame" it should be Apple.