VR: Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande Among Celebrities Exposed in Massive Nude Photo Leak

[JMS]

Ok well not all of us are experts in this field.

 

So here's my question. I have my phone and iPad synced, where if I take a picture on my phone, I can later view it through my iPad. Does this mean all my pictures are being stored in some online Apple cloud database?

Yes, and when you delete those photo's that doesn't mean they are gone from the apple servers...

Also if they are uploaded to apple, apple can use them along with all your data they collect from your phone however and whenever they figure out how they are going to use it.

[Chew]

I know Ariana Grande has denied that it's her but it looks like her to me.

 

 

for a petit chick, she has a nice little bum on her.  I'd oink.

[Stugein]

[JMS]

More news for creepy thread.   

 

 

Don’t blame iCloud yet for hacked celebrity nudes

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2601081/dont-blame-icloud-yet-for-hacked-celebrity-nudes.html

It's really no coincidence that this has occurred the weak when the two largest hacker conventions are going on... Black Hat and DEFCON.

Yes Apple is saying the accounts passwords where hacked and their security wasn't compromised other than the fact all these personal private pictures are all over the internet. So it would be fair to say, there security as designed sucks.

Second thought though is several of these ladies are saying the photo's which were taken from iCloud were actually deleted off their telephones years ago. Which highlights that when someone deletes something from their telephone, or even from their iCloud client; that still doesn't mean the item is deleted from Apple's servers.

[War Paint]

So the lesson here is don't take nude pictures of yourself if you can't live with the possibility of them being leaked to the internet, but if you must take pictures of yourself, use Grandpa's old Polaroid camera and store the photos inside a safe. 

[ixcuincle]

This is just screaming for a South Park episode. You've got to work Randy in there. 

 

"Sharon! Sharon, come quick!" 

[ixcuincle]

[Predicto]

[Forehead]

Give me a break Predicto.  If Natalie Portman had been involved, you would have called in sick

[drtdrums]

He needs this. Let him have it

Dude. Totally not even referring to anyone on ES. Not sure how that came across that way.

I'm talking about the people blaming Apple.

[JMS]

So the lesson here is don't take nude pictures of yourself if you can't live with the possibility of them being leaked to the internet, but if you must take pictures of yourself, use Grandpa's old Polaroid camera and store the photos inside a safe. 

 

Well for many of us...  all these young sexy starlets and myself  that's just not an option...   Thus in solidarity with my peer group I'm going to add my bare skinned photo to the Fappening...  

 

 

I knew you'd look Corcaigh, you SICKO !!...

[Kosher Ham]

So the lesson here is don't take nude pictures of yourself if you can't live with the possibility of them being leaked to the internet, but if you must take pictures of yourself, use Grandpa's old Polaroid camera and store the photos inside a safe. 

 

Just save them on memory stick or something other than a cloud type of system.

[Corcaigh]

The widespread misunderstanding of what the Cloud is and why this happened is mind blowing.

 

The best kind of cloud is one that rains naked chicks!!!!!! AMIRIGHT!?

[War Paint]

Just save them on memory stick or something other than a cloud type of system.

Memory sticks can be lost or stolen, then plugged into any PC.  Before you know it, your bum is being seen everywhere from Australia to Canada.

[Kosher Ham]

Memory sticks can be lost or stolen, then plugged into any PC.  Before you know it, your bum is being seen everywhere from Australia to Canada.

 

Therefore being a responsible adult helps.

 

I don't lose things, and I don't really have a chance of something being stolen.

 

You save them on your computer and protect it.

[RVAbrendan]

Of course, it's wise to avoid digitally sharing anything you wouldn't want compromised, but I hate the amount of victim blaming with this.

It's the new "she was asking for it with that short skirt" argument.

[JMS]

Of course, it's wise to avoid digitally sharing anything you wouldn't want compromised, but I hate the amount of victim blaming with this.

It's the new "she was asking for it with that short skirt" argument.

 

These pictures weren't shared and subsequently leaked by those they were shared with.   These photographs were taken on phones and automatically sync'd to the cloud where their were 100's perhaps even 1000's of accounts compromised by these hackers.

 

Apple, who is on the eve of one of their most important product launches in years, is trying to say it's the consumer's fault for having lax passwords, but that doesn't explain how hundreds of people all got hacked.  Clearly their is a systemic problem when hundreds of high profile accounts are so easily compromised.   Just as clearly Apple has no criminal or civil penalty here because their service agreement absolves them of responsibility in exchange for the free service..   

[Springfield]

JMS, do you actually have any proof that Apple has said that it's the consumer's fault that their accounts got hacked? All I can seem to find is them saying that they don't think that the find my iphone hack was how they got the pictures.

...or are you just trying to drive your agenda again?

[Corcaigh]

I haven't read what Apple has said, but I think they implied that access was not through a technical breach but as a result of weak password strength used by customers.

 

But this reflects on the system too. A cloud provider can insist on passwords having a structure that is hard to guess, and also disable brute force attempts.

 

I suppose until now that kind of requirement was more important for financial data, but if you are going to store naked photos in the cloud you might want to think about how well they are protected, any more than you would leave those photos in an locker at the gym secured with a zip tie.

[JMS]

JMS, do you actually have any proof that Apple has said that it's the consumer's fault that their accounts got hacked? All I can seem to find is them saying that they don't think that the find my iphone hack was how they got the pictures.

...or are you just trying to drive your agenda again?

 

Apple is trying to blame the celebrities choices of usernames, passwords, and security questions;   Not Apple's security.

 

It's an absurd assertion.  It's like I sell you a cheap lock and then claim it worked as designed when all your stuff get's stolen.   Hey what are you complaining about it was a cheap lock.

 

Apple has no financial or criminal liability here because of the user agreement which all iCloud users sign, which so favors Apple.. What Apple is trying desperately to mitigate is the public relations catastrophe on the eve of their next iphone launch.    An Iphone which reportely contains an new financial applications  ( iWallet)  which will allow one to reportedly use their iPhone as a credit card.

 

 

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-celebrity-leak-20140902-story.html

 

Apple says no security breach occurred in celebrity photo leak

....

Apple Inc. said Tuesday that the recent theft of racy celebrity photos was not a result of a widespread breach of its systems but was instead due to a "very targeted attack" on individual accounts.

 

"When we learned of the theft, we were outraged and immediately mobilized Apple’s engineers to discover the source," the company said in a statement Tuesday morning. "After more than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet. None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud or Find my iPhone."

[Popeman38]

JMS, how do you know Apple is responsible? What if the celebrities were duped by a phishing email scam? Is that Apple's responsibility? It appears that individual accounts were "hacked" and not the iCloud.

[Springfield]

So... No.

Furthermore, Apple's username and password requirements are no different than Dropbox, another cloud computing service. No different than many of the other services I use to login to.

[Corcaigh]

As an aside ... my European financial accounts are much more security conscious than the ones I have here; multiple factors for authentication and ones that would defeat key logging. They also provide the option to use your bank card and a reader that they supply to have a one-time pin generated for every log on.

My bank here just requires a password with eight characters and a capital, so I use:

 

MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento

[Slateman]

 

 

THIS IS THE ONLY TYPE OF PHOTO OF JENNIFER LAWRENCE THAT SHOULD BE SHARED.

 

a "leaked nude" is a NON-CONSENSUAL form of sexual violation and ANYBODY who participates by viewing and sharing is part of the problem.

 

women's bodies are NOT public property. we are human beings and we do not exist for other people's sexual pleasure without our consent. anybody with an ounce of empathy should be horrified and disgusted by this. ugh. smdh.

 

 

 

Goodness me, I didn't know the problem was THAT bad. Even Hope Solo had hers leaked. 

 

There is an ethical boundary we are passing here. 

 

There are people who want their nudes leaked, they do it professionally or they do it on video, however this is done with their consent. They said it's okay to make us into a sex symbol for Playboy, and other such organizations. Even some celebrities are willing to appear nude in movies, but again, this is done with their consent. 

 

And then there are these celebrities here that have taken nudes on their own cameras, for their own private purposes. And these images are leaked for the world to see. 

 

It's easy to say "Hurr durr don't use icloud hurr durr security issue it's their fault don't take nudes". And I understand, I'd never take nudes on my phone. If you look at my phone now it's just stuffed animal pictures and scenery. I'll say that right now. But this is blatant invasion of privacy and we should be terrified. 

 

 

thank you IX. Very wise words.

 

Unbelievable how people are these days.

LOOK, an INVASION OF PRIVACY!

oh BOY!

 

Meaning these people had these for their own private  reasons, someone STOLE them and now because they STOLE THEM and made them public, everyone grabs their dicks and forgets ethics entirely.

 

I saw this headline on Drudge today, and of course, its all about the INVASION of PRIVACY< and oh by the way, we're going to publish the pics and invade her privacy completely.

 

Anything to see some tits, i guess.

 

Why not grab the closest woman and rip her top off?

She's keeping her tits private, and know that only means we're all just waiting for someone to expose them for us.

So, rip her top off, and then everyone gather round and masturbate. look how humiliated she is! Erotic!

 

break into her house and steal her panties! We'd all just LOVE to have a look.

 

It's one thing to know humanity as a complete whole is as mature as a 12 year old and as slimy as your typical trench-coat porn theater guy, it's when you all prove it that it gets tough.

 

~Bang

 

 

IC, I felt strongly about the Erin Andrews leak where some creep filmed her thru a peep hole. I still haven't seen that footage nor do I want to. I don't have the same sympathy here, these women took these photos voluntarily and uploaded them to the cloud. I mean, come on. How stupid can you be?

I'm not saying they deserved it or anything like that, but I don't think it's that big a deal. These women earn their livings as sex symbols. I'm having a hard time seeing this in the same light as the Erin Andrews violation, for instance

 

So I re-read this thread.

 

I just want to know how many of the people in this thread that have expressed these and similar sentiments said the same thing about the invasion of Donald Sterling's privacy.

[Springfield]

So I re-read this thread.

I just want to know how many of the people in this thread that have expressed these and similar sentiments said the same thing about the invasion of Donald Sterling's privacy.

You bring up a very good point.

I didn't chime in too much in the Donald Sterling ordeal but I followed it. I think that the media and people of this country don't mind invasion of privacy when it suits their motives. It is truly a sad state of affairs we have.

Perhaps it's a part of being a celebrity. Anything you do or say can be held against you, regardless of what nefarious activities took place in order to expose you. People side with the paparazzi more often than with celebrities for crying out loud. These are professional stalkers!

Must be more of that Kardashian Kulture that Bang keeps talking about.