Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos 336
swinferno writes with news about the leak of hundreds of private celebrity photos over the weekend. Hundreds of revealing pictures of female celebrities were leaked overnight after being stolen from their private collections. Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, and pop star Ariana Grande were among the celebrities apparently shown in the pictures, which were posted on infamous web forum 4chan. It's unclear how the images were obtained, but anonymous 4chan users said that they were taken from celebrities' iCloud accounts. The accounts are designed to allow iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to synchronize images, settings, calendar information, and other data between devices, but the service has been criticized for being unreliable and confusing. Earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence herself complained about the service in an interview with MTV.
Where are these photos? (Score:5, Insightful)
Where are these photos you speak of?
I guess the internets are dead.
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I guess the internets are dead.
I gather many internets were given away yesterday at 4chan. You might try there, some people might still have some.
On second thought... better not.
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It might be a good idea to use a proxy and an antivirus.
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It would be a better idea to just not download them. Oh, who am I kidding, nobody cares about privacy while they're holding their dick in their hand.
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Not sure why someone chose to make ten torrents out of the leak
Maybe that makes it easier to do traffic correlation on Tor.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4, Funny)
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Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
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Strictly speaking, while there are lots of paid model/glamour photos, there are also lots of leaked/shared/stolen photos of women that probably didn't want their images shared with the world too. So short of paying for the images from sites that only publish photos that they took themselves, you're probably still going to be violating someone's privacy.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4, Insightful)
You get a shot at seeing boobies and all the sudden all those complaints you have about the NSA peeking at your files goes flying out the window. When that's brought up all the sudden we've got something worthwhile to spend our mod-points on. Cute.
Let me make this simple in case there's a post-fap-clearer-head lurking around this area of the thread: No, you do not have a good reason to acquire those photos. Yes, you are a bad person for grabbing them and sharing them. No, modding my posts down does not make me wrong about it. You lot, and you know who you are, are despicable.
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Where are these photos you speak of?
I guess the internets are dead.
https://kickass.to/the-fappeni... [kickass.to]
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Funny)
Where are these photos you speak of?
I guess the internets are dead.
Ya. "Pics or it didn't happen."
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You don't need to take photos using an iDevice to have them end up in iCloud. All you need to do is use a Mac.
If you use a Mac to download pictures off your camera - including cell phones that aren't iPhones and therefore behave like standard cameras and don't require Apple-specific software - by default, your pictures will end up in iCloud. It's part of the "Photo Stream" thing to allow users to stream pictures to the Apple TV that clearly every Mac owner has.
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While not strictly true, if you follow the standard setup "workflow" as 95% of all computer do, you end up with icloud enabled.
I'd put $100 on all these celebrities just following setup instructions and ending up with icloud enabled, because they simply don't know better.
Re: Where are these photos? (Score:5, Funny)
When will people reach out to the public and let them know the benefits of F/OSS? Had they been running OpenBSD this would have never been an issue as they would have never gotten the camera to mount.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
Not by default at all - you have to specifically add the photos to iPhoto and then turn on iCloud in system preferences.
Downloading pictures off a camera/usb stick/android phone can be done with Image Capture, and this does not put them on iCloud, just into folders on your computer.
Adding them to iPhoto is what puts them onto iCloud, and only if you turn it on - when you set up a Mac for the first time it asks you if you want it switched on (and prompts for an Apple ID).
If you use Aperture or iPhoto you can still keep things local only - there's a checkbox in preferences that turns off the iCloud sync.
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Look at it this way:
iCloud should be very useful for lots of things, same as OneDrive on Microsoft platforms. Most people will want it enabled.
Apple really really really pushes their iPhoto crap. Most clueless users end up using it.
From this perspective, I would not be surprised if most people ended up belonging to the "all pictures are uploaded to iCloud" group, as a sort of default state.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: Where are these photos? (Score:4, Informative)
I'm not sure what agenda you are talking about. Is that some kind of lame accusation of being involved in PR for one of the companies I mentioned? Because that's the typical response from fanbois and other zealots whenever someone is not bending over and praising their false idols.
Your emperor has no clothes, it's a greedy corporation with a lousy track record for security and no concern for their customers. Saying that is not a blasphemy or a PR operation, it's just the naked truth.
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What a bunch of nonsense. How do they "really really really" push iPhoto on Macs? It's there and it launches if you don't have photo imports associated with another app instead. I guess you would prefer that Macs come unable to handle photos out of the box?
When a person hates Macs, they can't stand the color of the power cord.
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I like and use these cloud services (in my case, onedrive). I put things on there that are simply non-damaging, except for my nude selfies - those will cause severe trauma to any viewer.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Insightful)
I buy a phone, and I'm an idiot. Specifically, I'm a very attractive hollywood star/let.
I want to share my tits with some person I'm dating. How do I know anything about what you have said? I want my tit pics to go across the water, and only to the person that I sent them to, or allowed to see them.
Talk to me like I'm an idiot, because by the lists I am an idiot. I'm a very ignorant fool, and I don't understand how the pictures I took, for a specific person, are now appearing for every person on the planet to see.
What did I do wrong? I took pictures of my vagina. That's on my phone. I texted them to you, and you are on my carrier, which I would expect is private. If you support the non-pprivacy of anything I upload to my phone (which is not an upload), then you are a contrarian and deserve to die.
I text to a private device, or upload to a private account. How do I share something "by default" that people, right now, are jerking off to, by reports, "repeatedly and thoroughly"? I bought a phone, I texted it to someone I trust, and now my "junk" is everywhere.
I was prompted for an Apple Id, I guess, but did it tell me that my vagina would be on the internet?
Did I upload something to the cloud? Because I don't know what a cloud is. I wanted to prove to this really cute and awesome guy that I missed him and wanted him to come back after shooting his movie or show or whatever, I'm not being specific.
Was it in a ToS agreement that I upload everything to everyone ever? If not, your description of default whatever holds no water. I don't know the defaults. I don't know what I have to turn on or off to enable or disable defaults. I want pictures of my pussy on my pohone, and wherever I send them. That's it.
Go ahead, and be technically superior. I'm going to need a stupid-user-level explanation of what I missed because I'm dumb.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4, Informative)
You don't need to take photos using an iDevice to have them end up in iCloud. All you need to do is use a Mac.
If you use a Mac to download pictures off your camera - including cell phones that aren't iPhones and therefore behave like standard cameras and don't require Apple-specific software - by default, your pictures will end up in iCloud. It's part of the "Photo Stream" thing to allow users to stream pictures to the Apple TV that clearly every Mac owner has.
Not only that... but anyone you share the photos with could have had an iPhone as well. By default smartphones backup your photos both with Google and Apple, so if anyone you shared the pics with gets hacked, you, by default are hacked as well.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Insightful)
What it comes down to is, if you don't want naked pictures of yourself to end up for all the world to see, don't take naked pictures of yourself. Famous or not, just don't do it.
Yes, it's wrong for someone to seek to steal your nude photos, but pragmatically people want to satisfy their prurient interests. If you're famous and if your beauty was in large-part responsible for getting you there, you've created incentive for those fans to want to see more. That's why programs like Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and TMZ can make a living, because people want to satisfy their prurient interests with you. Some like Paris Hilton and Mrs. Kanye West and the rest of the Kardashian family have managed to exploit that successfully in the past, and others like Miley Cyrus are trying very hard to exploit that now, and unfortunately their antics have helped to make it acceptable, to an extent, for this invasive phenomenon to stand.
Once the genie's out of the bottle it's over. Apparently Lawrence's lawyers are threatening to sue or refer for criminal prosecution anyone that shares the photos of her. I very much doubt they'll have a lot of luck though, even if the original source of the leak is found. If anything they're just going to make it worse via Streisand Effect.
And for those that say I'm blaming the victim, yes, I am blaming the victim. I'm also blaming the leaker and the culture of invasiveness that makes these leaks so incredibly desired, but I am blaming the victim. Would you go walking through a part of town known for muggings during the time of day or night when those muggings are most likely to happen? Yeah, it's wrong for the mugger to attack you, but armed with the knowledge that you're placing yourself in undue risk you'd generally avoid doing that because the only behavior that you can control is your own. Same thing applies here. It's 100% wrong for someone to fraudulently obtain access to your account and your cache of nude photos of yourself, but you know that if others know they exist they'll certainly try, or if you're famous you know that they'll try just to see if they exist in the first place, so despite the very much known risk you've put yourself in a position to become a victim. Don't do that.
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Wrong idea. (Score:5, Interesting)
No. What it comes down to is who, and what, are trustworthy. Cloud services are not trustworthy. Some people are not trustworthy. This doesn't just apply to images; it applies to financial information (banks are not trustworthy), to your behavior in public (those other people at parties are not trustworthy) and so on.
There's no need to give up intimate entertainment. You just need to learn to be discrete, and this means very carefully evaluating who, and what, are trustworthy. I will grant that in the face of all the cloud propaganda, the social networking tsunami, the government's drive to list everyone and everything, and people's innate tendency to gossip, this may no longer be obvious, but discretion is, in fact, one of the key characteristics of a mature and healthy personality.
If you don't want something repeated, don't say it. If you don't want it shared, don't share it. But you can still do it. From there, the advisability of "doing it" becomes a question of one's morals and ethics -- and perhaps the law. While the law is often completely wrongheaded, we must always remember the amount of power in the system's hands.
Discretion: That's what is at the core of all of this. Not self-censorship.
Re:Wrong idea. (Score:5, Insightful)
Can't trust cell phone cameras. By definition it's a camera attached to a communications device. It's designed to share that photo.
Can't trust storing it on a PC as PCs are connected to the Internet in the overwhelming majority of instances.
Can't even store on many modern-day cameras, as they're communincations-enabled.
Then there's the whole point of a picture, looking it at it. Typically that means more than just the picture-taker looking at it if the photographer and the subject are the same person (ie, selfie), or the subject is not the photographer, then the subject is trusting that the photographer won't leave the image vulnerable to all of the possibilities above, and won't intentionally share it as well.
For all we know, none of these women's accounts were compromised. Their boyfriends, husbands, ex-boyfriends, ex-husbands, girlfriends, ex-girlfriends accounts could have been, or those people could have shared the photos with others, and their accounts were compromised.
I guess what it comes down to is, if it exists, it could be evidence. The only solution is to not let it exist in the first place.
Behavior (Score:5, Interesting)
> If you cannot even trust the platform, then how does your logic work?
The logic works fine. Platforms can work fine too. Society, however, doesn't. So that part is up to you.
> Can't trust cell phone cameras. By definition it's a camera attached to a communications device. It's designed to share that photo.
Exactly right. Buy a DSLR if you require discretion in photography. Ensure it does not have network connectivity (some do... Canon 6D, for instance.) If you take an image with a cellphone camera, be aware before you ever shoot it that you can have no reasonable expectation of privacy whatsoever. It goes further than that, too. When using a smartphone, again be aware you have no reasonable expectation of privacy whatsoever with regard to texts, voice conversations, video conversations, email, your location, billing, logging and so one for every service the phone provides you (or others) with.
> Can't trust storing it on a PC as PCs are connected to the Internet in the overwhelming majority of instances.
No. If you want to store something that requires discretion, then you require a non-network connected PC. There's no inherent need to connect a PC to a network. Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to. Nor is there a need to construct a PC with bluetooth, wifi and so on. Nor is there a need to leave a PC in a generally accessible location and/or condition. These are all user choices. Make them wrongly, and your security is compromised. But they are not inevitabilities. There's a lesson here: just because others do something in some particular manner does not mean that you have to do so.
> Then there's the whole point of a picture, looking it at it. Typically that means more than just the picture-taker looking at it
Again, no. This is also user choice. You are responsible for the consequences of your choices, and for knowing the things you need to know to make those choices well. The key here is to be informed enough to make the most correct choices. "It's typical" is not a metric that binds anyone in any way. If you embrace such a thing, you either choose to do so or you are so ignorant that you know no better, in which case anyone who trusts you with data that requires discretion is making a serious mistake.
The images I have taken or otherwise created that I have *decided* you may see are here [flickr.com]. The ones I have *decided* you may not have access to, you will never, ever see, barring use of military levels of force. These conditions were quite literally trivial to instantiate and maintain. Think, choose, easy implementation, all done.
> For all we know, none of these women's accounts were compromised. Their boyfriends, husbands, ex-boyfriends, ex-husbands, girlfriends, ex-girlfriends accounts could have been, or those people could have shared the photos with others, and their accounts were compromised.
The issue isn't account centric. It is behavior centric. You must identify data that needs protection; you must identify the trustworthy in regard to both persons and systems; you must control distribution; you must employ discretion and ensure that your knowledge is up to the task of seeing all these things through. If you cannot do these things, you are (at the very least) a potential victim of your own limitations. And you should probably fix that. :)
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4, Insightful)
Really good points, all - it's not like someone broke into these people's houses & took pictures of them in the nude unawares. However... I don't think that the "victims" here are necessarily freaking out that the pictures exist or are worried what the public will think of their naked bodies (as you pointed out they are mostly beautiful anyway). I think that they are trying to treat the stealing & dissemination of stolen images as a crime, which it is.
So while I agree that the best solution to keeping your nudie pics off the web is to not take them in the first place (as Joshua would say: "The only winning move is not to play") , I am all for treating it like a crime and following up even if your actions end up Streisand Effecting your photos in the process.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4)
I do expect that the leaking of such images could cost actors some roles or cause other damage. Family-friendly movies might not cast them if the controversy would hurt the bottom-line of the movie, or these could end up pushing the actress toward the casting-couch. Or, as we've seen with other actresses that have gone off the deep end in concert with nude photos or public indecency photos, they could end up with a reputation that means they don't really get cast at all.
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I don't think it will hurt anyone's careers. In fact, I can think of at least two people whose careers were launched or boosted by leaking of their private videos.
That said, the fact that anyone's career could be hurt for doing something *everyone* likes to do (and nobody would be here without) is sort of absurd. I mostly blame our puritanical values and expectations, especially of women, but of men as well. Women who directly express their sexuality are labeled as "sluts," and men who do the same are la
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Or, you know. People should maybe be concerned about computer security and the companies that held those pictures "securely" should be held partly responsible for creating a false sense of security or encouraging reckless behavior.
Although I'm sure they are indemnified against anything civil in writing (I don't think it would be good to prosecute apple criminally culpable).
But they basically sold a service giving the customer a fraudulent sense of false safety and privacy.
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What it comes down to is, if you don't want naked pictures of yourself to end up for all the world to see, don't take naked pictures of yourself.
Many of the photos appear to be taken by other people. In any case, people should be free to explore their sexuality with photos if they want, without the risk that they will be broadcast to the world. It's bad enough that paparazzi use telephoto lenses to take pictures of people in their own private areas.
Poor security is not a given, it's just the norm. Don't accept it. If more companies were facing lawsuits with truly punitive damages they might make more of an effort.
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More than a decade ago my pickup truck was stolen out of the parking lot of the apartment that I lived in. I didn't have a steering wheel lock or other immobilization device on it and per my parents' advice only had liability coverage, as it wa
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Insightful)
If someone put their money in a reputable bank and it was stolen, would you blame them? The photos were in password protected accounts from a reputable company that claimed to be secure. There were no "your photos may be hacked" warnings. While it may seem obvious to people like us that the risk is there, most people don't think that way and can't really be blamed for not doing so. How is a password for iCloud any different from the password for your online banking or PIN number for the average person?
They evaluated the risks with the information they had, and Apple failed them. If Apple were a bank they would be entirely liable for any financial loss, no question.
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This is, apparently, a common misconception. Banks are *not* liable for being robbed. The FDIC covers deposits (up to $250k), and *nobody* covers safe deposit boxes unless you specifically purchase insurance. If you're storing irreplaceable items in a bank, you should absolutely research their security, as well as their disaster (fire/flood/earthquake) mitigation strategies, if any.
And there are no liability disclaimers posted in banks either. Drawing attention to that fact generally isn't good for busi
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Presently it is default behavior to have anything on an iDevice goes to PhotoStream if it's saved though. If the photos were texted to someone with an iPhone or whatever and they pressed Save, then they can immediately show up on their PhotoStream accounts.
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Yeah, and this is critical in the difference between 'leaked' and 'stolen'.
How did they actually get taken? Pissed celeb assistant, social engineering of each celeb, or actual hack of some photo storage system where they all were.
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Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4, Informative)
Interesting.
Direct source seems to confirm.
https://github.com/hackappcom/... [github.com]
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
"Since when has Apple prided itself or even claimed strict security? "
Uhh, remember the Macs don't get viruses campaign?
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
Actually Apple do claim that iCloud is very secure: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT... [apple.com]
Apple have long claimed to offer platforms free from malware and protected from hacking too. iOS even protects your kids from inappropriate content. Apple make big claims about security all the time.
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Not 4chan (Score:2, Informative)
Actually the source was anonib.
But they were then posted all over 4chan yeah.
https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10942405/09.01.2014_Celebrity_Nude_Photo_Hack_Collection_-__fappening
Alleged leaker already named (Score:5, Informative)
Pretty good detective work: http://pastebin.com/cwAz9Y2r [pastebin.com]
Re:Alleged leaker already named (Score:4, Informative)
Spoiler:
A guy named Bryan Hamade from Georgia seems to have leaked them. Who stole them is still up for debate.
Re:Alleged leaker already named (Score:4, Informative)
This seems to explain how the pictures were acquired and that it wasn't just one guy stealing them and it isn't just one guy distributing them:
http://i.imgur.com/vnd0H9J.jpg [imgur.com]
Re:Alleged leaker already named (Score:4, Interesting)
Wow. If it turns out to be true, it's yet another testament to how difficult it is to be truly anonymous online these days. But not because of standard technical things like using proxies, etc, it's simply because there's so much info out there in social media and Google to provide clues. One mistake or oversight and you're pretty much exposed.
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this is probably the biggest takeaway there.
we can still fight for some degree of privacy. but any meaningful anonymity is not available to the average folk.
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"complained about the service" (Score:3, Insightful)
Then dont use it. Pretty simple. There is no law that says you have to use any cloud service, so if you dont trust/like them, dont use them. And dont bitch about it when you choose to do so.
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There's no law that says you have to drive a Ford. If you don't trust them, don't drive one. But don't bitch about it when it bursts into flames and kills you, when you choose to drive it.
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I used to feel that way, but I don't think it works that way anymore. There's too much tech to be able to keep up with it, even for computing professionals. There are too many things that we're dependent on t
The worst possible publicity for Apple (Score:2)
Re:The worst possible publicity for Apple (Score:5, Interesting)
It's a little weird since a lot of the phones that took the photos aren't running iOS and some of the folders have Dropbox-specific files.
Don't use the same password on multiple sites!
whats the big deal? (Score:3)
seriously, what am i missing?
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are her b**bs any different than bajillion of others in all shapes and sizes freely available on the internets?
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Yes, her *OO** are larger than most.
Photos, or it didn't happen (Score:2)
Come on people, I should not have to remind you.
Apple's Culture works against them. (Score:5, Interesting)
I worked for Apple for 9 years. I would never use iCloud for anything I needed to keep private.
Apple's own culture of secrecy works against them. You don't discuss what you are doing outside your immediate team. This means that you often don't know enough about what you are doing to understand where your code will be used. You are working from a design (or an API) specified by another team and you have to assume they have the complete picture. If they don't specify brute force protection for your code you must assume that they have a reason or they are using some other method.
The internal secrecy also results in multiple implementations of the same function, because each team knows its own code and doesn't see what others have already implemented or are working on. No doubt somebody in the organization thinks that the internal secrecy is worth the cost.
passwords are only half of a login (Score:2)
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Ok, first of all, if I some how got hold of these pictures, I'd delete them. Integrity is good for us all. I've no animosity towards the famous.
That being said, these people sold their privacy for cold hard cash. Not small amounts either, enough to buy the town I live in. Maybe I'm a jerk, but I just don't feel all that bad for them. They sell sex every day, all day. I have a feeling most are more upset that some of the pictures are unflattering than they are that they're nude in them.
Let me get this straight... (Score:5, Insightful)
Somebody:
1) Takes nude photos of themselves with an internet-connected device.
2) Has said photos of themselves synchronized with an internet service
3) Is surprised / outraged that said photos are accessed by somebody on the internet.
I'm not saying that those people are to blame, but rather that there is a significant disconnect between technology and users' expectations. And the companies involved aren't making things any better with their hand-waving "cloud" mumbo-jumbo.
Some outrage motivated by image control/PR/money? (Score:5, Insightful)
As far as I know, Jennifer Lawrence has never done a nude scene in a movie. Is some of the outrage due to that maybe Jennifer Lawrence as an actress is more appealing/alluring in some roles because she's not been seen on screen nude and thus manages to increase her allure by keeping the mystery alive (although X-Men and American Hustle did about everything possible to reveal that mystery)
It does seem to be something of a female celebrity career trope that when they hit a mature phase of their careers they start opting for roles that involve a lot of nudity under some kind of guise that it's a challenging or artistically complex thing to do. Usually the more explicit the nudity and/or sex the greater press it draws and with any luck a bump to the actress' career.
Could Jennifer Lawrence ALSO be motivated by the fact that being nude in a movie is some way passé now -- ie, taking a role with nudity would no longer bring any added celebrity or notoriety because we've already seen that?
I'm not implying she doesn't have other, better reasons to be annoyed -- celebrities are people too, and like their privacy. I'm just curious to what extent the outrage isn't somewhat motivated by a celebrity's desire to flog an image of sexuality for maximum return.
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So we can look forward to Judy Dench doing some excessive nudity now that she's firmly established?
two-step verification (Score:3)
Pure speculation. (Score:3)
My point is, many of these images were *taken* with non-apple devices and *deleted* before photo stream was a thing. At this point it is likely someone got access to a darknet cache of images -- the sources are unlikely from one location, but from many many sources over many years.
LTDR; 1. Enable 2FA 2. If you upload something to the internet, assume someday someone will be able to see it and do whatever they want with it. Are you okay with that?
Some advice (Score:3)
If you don't want something to leak on the Internet in the 21st century, DON'T DO IT!
Perhaps the NSA could have learned that lesson with Edward Snowden...
These really are just nude pictures, some with sex. But are we all shocked that are celebrities look hot when they're naked?
Far worse would have been for photos to leak showing criminal activity, such as torturing dogs, doing drugs, or acting like complete assholes by beating up and torturing people.
Re:Here they come... (Score:5, Insightful)
Paraphrasing something I just read somewhere on the Internet:
When somebody says 'the cloud', mentally replace it by 'somebody else's computer'.
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To be fair, there's the good Cloud and the bad Cloud.
If this is truly caused by a vulnerability in iCloud, it's squarely in the "bad Cloud" segment.
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To be fair, there's the good Cloud and the bad Cloud.
Use case is the issue (Score:3)
No. There isn't. There's good use of cloud and bad use of cloud. If it's not a problem for random people, business entities, criminals and governments to have access to your data, then cloud storage can be convenient and harmless. Using cloud for storage of anything personal, proprietary, secret or dangerous is outright stupid. Marketing bullshit aside, you are putting your data in multiple-someone-else's hands and you have *zero* control over where it g
Re:Here they come... (Score:4, Insightful)
Still, allowing brute force over the internet is a big mistake.
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Fact of the matter is, tech-types who should know better still struggle with digital security and lose; laymen don't really have a chance.
The only winning move is not to play.
I'm just surprised this didn't happen sooner. Perhaps the amount of hip/trendy celebs using iphones/mac/icloud just reached critical mass and this is the resulting explosion.
To get philosophical about it. this is another example of the cool people getting owned by the geeks. Revenge of the nerds, right? Too soon?
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Some soap and water will take care of that.
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Also, when somebody says "It's unclear how the images were obtained, but anonymous 4chan users said...", replace it with "It's unclear how the images were obtained."
Come on, since when are anonymous 4chan users a reliable source?
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When are non-anonymous 4chan users a reliable source?
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there have been many pearl harbor level events, apple being nowhere near the worst offender. in fact one can easily argue that apple has done pretty well with respect to protecting user's privacy. and we don't strictly speaking know that this particular breach was caused by apple.
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While true that Apple is by no means the worst at security, they are one of the most image concious companies in the world and if there is a celebrity backlash due to these leaks it could really harm them. Doesn't help their iPhone 6 launch in the next week or two either.
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doesnt help nor hurt. not going to register in any meaningful way. news cycle is 24 minutes. it will have been forgotten by the time next post goes up on /.
the knowledge that "noodies" are out there will linger for a few days for its intrinsic value..
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And how odd is it that your b.f. needs to answer one 'important' text message just as the blow job commences?
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Hey, my friend just sent me a message to tell you that you suck at this job.
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Extend this to people that are not yet celebs. Even if you are pushing 60 you still might become one.
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Or just don't use that service. Photo sharing by iCloud is NOT mandatory. In fact it is optional.
By the way, Apple offers two-factor-authorisation with iCloud. I bet that nobody of those celebrities used that. I wouldn't be surprised even if they used the very same password for iCloud and everything else.