And people wonder why I don't use the Cloud...

I don't get it. Unleaked photos are better than leaked photos. Leaked photos always suffer from the lack of editorial oversight.

this just in: famous people have nipples.

William Haskins said:

this just in: famous people have nipples.

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Famous nipples.

Nobody wants to see my nipples.

you tell those nipples to keep practicing and working hard and being team players and one day those nipples will reach for the stars.

nipples are nipples, famous or not...

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nipples are nipples, famous or not...

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People would pay money to see the nipples of Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, Kate Upton, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Kirsten Dunst and Selena Gomez.

People would probably pay even more money not to see mine.

So all of these people backed up nude photos of themselves on an internet based service? With almost constant stories in the news of supposedly secure data storage banks being hacked? Um...okay. I guess the best thing to do at this point is just to roll with it and act like you're not embarrassed.

Wonder where Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck and Katherine Hepburn used to stash their nudie pics?

Sometimes a locked drawer is more secure than a hard drive. Especially when there's so many creepy assholes breathing heavy and typing with one shaky hand on a sticky keyboard and the other tightly choking the chicken. There's a lot of hungry pervs out there and the web is a 24-hr buffet that never closes and is always well-stocked with buttloads of monkey spanking material.

But I'm not giving these actresses and models and personalities a complete pass. If you're famous and you have pics of your vajayjay in your "private collection" it's no different than your boyfriend's secret porn stash. It's your business if you want to take pics of your naughty bits, but don't be surprised when one million of your closest friends end up seeing your goodies too.

Whether its locked away in a safe or password protected, if someone really wants to see you naked and you've done half the work for them, they're going to handle the other half. There was demand for nekkid Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence and they unwittingly provided the supply.

Now it's baby gravy time! The Internet Is For Porn. Same as always.

I worry in the future we might not have much choice in that regard (using online data storage for everything, that is), though I'll avoid it myself for as long as I can.

Welcome to rape culture in action...

No one cares about our nudes, they care about celeb nudes. There are various theories about how the pics could have gotten out, not just the iCloud thing. There were various hackers trading them, as well.

raburrell said:

Welcome to rape culture in action...

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Could you expand upon that, raburrell?

I'm not following how skeevy sexual objectification translates into rape culture.

nighttimer said:

Could you expand upon that, raburrell?

I'm not following how skeevy sexual objectification translates into rape culture.

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I think it's the whole trespass and not the sexual objectification that raburrell is trying to make but I will let raburrell explain herself.

Wait, so this means that Sex Tape movie is totally a real thing. Huh.

nighttimer said:

Could you expand upon that, raburrell?

I'm not following how skeevy sexual objectification translates into rape culture.

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I would suspect her objection is more along the lines that a few posts here, mine included, could be seen as victim blaming. And I suppose I should have included a damning comment or two towards the perpetrators of this crime. Lord knows they deserve it. I, too, will wait for rab to respond before contributing anymore of my own commentary.

regdog said:

Just because a person is famous does not mean they are not entitled to their personal property including photographs remaining personal.

The ideology of "you're to blame if you use the internet" is little more than victim blaming.

The only people to blame are the hackers who stole personal property.

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I see what you're saying, and I wish the world didn't have bad people in it, but we do have some personal responsibility to safeguard things that are valuable to us. Our neighborhood just got a memo from the police department to keep our garage doors closed and locked to prevent garage theft, which is currently seeing an increased incidence in our area. If I leave my garage door open all night and wake up to my bikes having been stolen, I'm going to take some responsibility for that. Regardless of the fact that I did nothing wrong. I have seen a lot of news lately about hackers hacking into...well...just about everything. The thing is, with property of monetary value, there are means in place for reparation, or insurance we can buy to replace it.

But with our own, personal, private stuff that, once out can never be put back in, then I believe even more special care should be taken. And it's rotten, I agree. But there is some personal responsibility here.

nighttimer said:

Sometimes a locked drawer is more secure than a hard drive. Especially when there's so many creepy assholes breathing heavy and typing with one shaky hand on a sticky keyboard and the other tightly choking the chicken. There's a lot of hungry pervs out there and the web is a 24-hr buffet that never closes and is always well-stocked with buttloads of monkey spanking material.

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And from what I've heard some of these creep assholes are not out serfing the net, but actually work at the server farms where the cloud is being hosted.

Something to think about.

If in doubt, don't put it on the internet. The cloud is nothing more than a alloted/sequestered space on the internet!

amergina said:

I wonder how much "Duh. Don't put stuff on the Internet." would be shouted if, rather than naked pictures of celebrity women, the stolen files were tax returns. Or credit card statements. Or some other private information that was on a nominally secure server farm somewhere.

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Depends.

If they were saved credit cards like with Apple or Amazon or a bank, then people would be blaming the software engineers at the company for not implementing more robust security.

If someone was taking pictures or scans of their credit cards or tax returns and saving them on the cloud, then yes, I expect the response would be exactly the same as with naked photos.

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I wonder how much "Duh. Don't put stuff on the Internet." would be shouted if, rather than naked pictures of celebrity women, the stolen files were tax returns. Or credit card statements. Or some other private information that was on a nominally secure server farm somewhere.

But eh, naked photos of women. So they totally deserved it for trusting their service provider was secure. I mean, LOL. How dumb could you be? They were asking for it. /facetious

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I don't see it that way - more that ultimately, online anything can't *really* be trusted for genuine privacy - whether it be naked photos of oneself or credit card information. The latter seems to happen with alarming regularity as well.

Then again, I tend to be more paranoid than most and still pay cash for nearly everything and don't shop online. I'm reluctant to use cloud services for anything. Today it's a 'hacker' shopping nude pics of famous people, tomorrow they could be locking your access to your own files unless you pay up for it.

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I wonder how many people are inadvertently backing such things up to dropbox. Or Carbonite. Or any of those other remote backup services.

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I probably still have some nudes on Dropbox myself.

But I'm kind of blasé about that kind of thing.

Wilde_at_heart said:

Then again, I tend to be more paranoid than most and still pay cash for nearly everything and don't shop online. I'm reluctant to use cloud services for anything. Today it's a 'hacker' shopping nude pics of famous people, tomorrow they could be locking your access to your own files unless you pay up for it.

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Unlikely. They'd just empty your account themselves.