Posted on 09/02/2014 11:46:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s a late entry, and a sad one, but the trove of stolen celebrity nudes that hit Reddit like a bomb over the weekend may just qualify as the Internet story of the summer. After all, it’s the perfect Internet scandal: sex, Bitcoin, shadowy hackers and long-reigning Internet darling Jennifer Lawrence.
And yet, the ongoing incident — which the FBI has said it’s investigating — is far more than a tawdry tabloid story. It also raises a lot of profoundly important issues about technology, security, privacy and power in the digital age. There are practical implications, as well: The leak is inspiring many inhabitants of the “cloud” — a club that, in all likelihood, you belong to — to take a second look at their security settings. Let’s parse the key questions.
What happened, in a nutshell?
Here’s the TL;DR version: On Sunday, a large cache of nude celebrity photos were uploaded to the anarchic message-board site 4Chan. It’s not entirely clear who uploaded the photos, or how many people were involved, but the images seem to have come from a loosely affiliated network of undeniably creepy dudes.
From 4Chan, the photos spread to Reddit. From Reddit, they moved to the rest of the Internet. Celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton have since confirmed that some of the photos are genuine. Which has left law enforcement, security experts and site moderators pondering what, exactly, they should do.
Which celebrities got hacked?
The cache purportedly includes photos of several dozen female celebrities, including Lawrence, Upton, Kirsten Dunst, Avril Lavigne, Lea Michele, McKayla Maroney and Ariana Grande. There are also some lesser marquee names in the mix, such as Jessica Brown-Findlay (“Downton Abbey’s” Lady Sybil) and Hope Solo (the U.S. women’s soccer star).
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No mirror and I still bathe in the dark
I’m just that ugly. lol
...and a lot of people do things that I would never, ever do - such as bank and billpay online. NFW.
The “cloud” is as secured as a client-side server.
LOL!
I can’t do the dark. My tail is ugly, but I don’t want to slip and break it.
I would write “LOL”, but that has nearly happened once or twice, and I’ve lost my humor about it.
How did they get the images?
This is the million-dollar question, and no one has a conclusive answer to it yet.
Well, people today are sex-obsessed and stupid and one bunch of these bananas found another bunch and viola!
...the images seem to have come from a loosely affiliated network of undeniably creepy dudes.
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Yes, but they originated with some slutty women.
I am not (snicker!) smirking at (bahahahaha) all (snoooork!). I will say that whoever re-branded "outsourcing" as The Cloud was a genius.
Bingo! And in their phones at that.
I posted my nude photos and no hits.
Next time I’ll air brush and then use photoshop for enhancements.
Last thing you’d want is a team of doctors and nurses staring at it.
...and viola!
(((
Pretty sure no musical instruments were harmed in this incident. :)
Pretty sure no musical instruments were harmed in this incident. :)
Hey, man, don’t loose your cool...
In my opinion what we are observing here is evidence of the “Casting Couch” that has been traditionally used by producers to extract favors from young actresses for a promise of a job for 100 years. The photos are made to use as a black mail device to keep the girl enslaved and in line. Remember the Jack Woltz character in “The Godfather” who complained that Johnny Fontaine ruined the best piece of ass he ever had with his Guinea charm. I suspect that these pics originated in the camera phone of a movie producer. More shoes will drop, I suspect.
Maybe Californians are just short on...confidence.
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