Posted on 09/02/2014 2:33:41 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The leaking of hundreds of private and intimate photographs of Hollywood celebrities cast new doubt on the security of popular online storage sites Monday as investigators probed for explanations of the high-profile breach.
Privacy experts joined Hollywood publicists in denouncing the leaks, which flooded Web sites over the weekend with nude images of more than a half-dozen A-list actresses and performers, including Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, star of “The Hunger Games” and “Silver Linings Playbook.”
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Except half of the pictures evidently were using Android phones. So this wasn’t an iCloud hack.
The thing is, why would one feel the need to photograph themselves nake d in the first place? Reminds me of all the people who feel the need to videotape themselves having sex then complain when the tape is “stolen”. Please, this whole thing reeks of yet another publicity scam.
9 days away from Sept. 11th and this is what the FBI focuses on.
Any cloud, iCloud or not, are vulnerable. I wouldn’t recommend you to keep sensitive information on-line. And your home computers aren’t safe too, since the end of dial-up networks era.
Since time began sirens have appeared in the mists to lure us to perdition. Why not the cloud?
Average run-of-the-mill idiot. She, or someone else, probably just saved it on a pc or mac with automatic cloud back up. While the cloud may be adequately encrypted, no encryption is more secure than the password. She (or whoever stored it) may have used a relatively easily guessed password, like "Password1" or such.
Not sure, but I bet they work at Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
~I wonder who are these idiots who ever thought clouds are secure?
Not sure, but I bet they work at Apple, Microsoft, and Google.~
Ah, it is that they are saying. Not as they do think this way.
We have a winner!
If quoted by Forest Gump!
Simple solution: If you don’t want people to see naked pictures of yourself, then don’t take the pictures. Then it doesn’t matter where any other pictures are stored.
I am talking about the concept of privacy in the main.
Circumstances and differences are always going to exist between individual cases.
A PERSON has the reasonable expectation of privacy when they use a service and they have a reasonable expectation of privacy when they engage in a conversation in their home.
The media hypocrisy is pretty obvious.
Anyone who puts their faith in the security of the “Cloud” is stupider than stupid.
I agree with you.
For the life of me I can’t understand how anyone in their right mind would store private information, or worse yet...backup their computer on a cloud system. You just might as well have an agreement with your next door neighbor to store his data on your “secure” computer system at your house and you store your at his.
I would think that the NSA and CIA loves cloud systems for they did not have access to data stored on the hard drives of private systems and now all of that data is stored in a central data repository for all to see when hacked...or worse yet given by the owner of the cloud upon request.
Going to a meeting? Get a thumb drive for the information you will need or use.
Cloud = potential disaster.
That's probably not too far from reality. One way you can get into an iCloud account: A very significant number of unsophisticated users use the same password for everything and never change it. Many of these same users also use their email address for their user name. One exploit in Internet Explorer (for example) where a hacker gets your password gets them into all of your accounts. Your pictures are either going to be in iCloud or Google Drive depending on your device. Real world example. A few years ago there was an online e-tailer software package that stored passwords in clear text. You could use a hacking technique called "SQL injection" and get it to dump it's entire database of account names and passwords. From there, you just go to other places the user might have an account and mine away. Information security is an oxymoron. Anything and everything stored electronically is vulnerable.
That is the real lesson here. If it is connected to the Internet it is at risk. Period. It doesn’t matter if it is iOS, Windows, Linux, etc. Online is vulnerable, some maybe more than others, but all come with risk. Don’t put anything on the computer you aren’t willing to see published to the world.
~That’s probably not too far from reality. One way you can get into an iCloud account: A very significant number of unsophisticated users use the same password for everything and never change it. Many of these same users also use their email address for their user name. One exploit in Internet Explorer (for example) where a hacker gets your password gets them into all of your accounts. Your pictures are either going to be in iCloud or Google Drive depending on your device. Real world example. A few years ago there was an online e-tailer software package that stored passwords in clear text. You could use a hacking technique called “SQL injection” and get it to dump it’s entire database of account names and passwords. From there, you just go to other places the user might have an account and mine away. Information security is an oxymoron. Anything and everything stored electronically is vulnerable.~
Get an old laptop without Wi-Fi capabilities, keep it off-line and you can expect your information to be pretty much secure.
Older network systems were pretty much secure by the way, up to Windows NT.
Everything newer is a privacy nightmare to me and it become from bad to worse after broadband Internet access and capable mobile devices become common place.
I don’t know why it took as far as a Snowden scandal to raise awareness.
The cloud is safe.
Your nude pictures need to be kept off line.
~The cloud is safe.
Your nude pictures need to be kept off line.~
I couldn’t care less about nude pictures as far as I have other ways to have fun.
Nude pics aren’t a single category of sensitive into kept on computers, isn’t it?
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