Hacker behind the "fappening" sentenced to 18 months of federal prison on a felony charge - Polidicks

[quote] HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Lancaster County man was sentenced yesterday on felony computer hacking charges related to his illegal access of over 100 Apple and Google e-mail accounts, including those belonging to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. According to United States Attorney Bruce D. Brandler, United States District Court Judge William W. Caldwell sentenced Ryan Collins, 36, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to 18 months in federal prison for a felony violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He was taken into custody immediately after sentencing. Collins pled guilty in May to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information. Collins was originally charged in Los Angeles, but the parties agreed to transfer the case to Harrisburg in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, near Collins' home, for the entry of his guilty plea and sentencing.[/quote] Source:[URL]https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/lancaster-county-man-sentenced-18-months-federal-prison-hacking-apple-and-google-e-mail[/URL] On the surface it sounds kind of light but ehh. He's still a registered felon and will have quite a well known name if anyone looks him up. edit: oh and if you don't know. He basically leaked a bunch of celebrity nudes on the internet.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51277008]Source:[URL]https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/lancaster-county-man-sentenced-18-months-federal-prison-hacking-apple-and-google-e-mail[/URL] On the surface it sounds kind of light but ehh. He's still a registered felon and will have quite a well known name if anyone looks him up. [/QUOTE] He is probably going to be sued to oblivion though.

I wish the media would stop insisting on the term "Celebgate". The only people who ever called it that were the people who don't use the internet and thus couldn't have found out about it firsthand.

I still don't get how people still fall for fake email phishing scams yet so many times I have seen 'X business will not contact you via email to verify user information'

[QUOTE=Waffler;51277122]I still don't get how people still fall for fake email phishing scams yet so many times I have seen 'X business will not contact you via email to verify user information'[/QUOTE] Do you really expect a majority of users to actually process that? Phrases like that are probably more for the companies' protection than for their users' benefit, since it lets them go 'you've been warned' even if they don't expect them to keep stuff like this in mind.

[QUOTE=Waffler;51277122]I still don't get how people still fall for fake email phishing scams yet so many times I have seen 'X business will not contact you via email to verify user information'[/QUOTE] If you grow up with the technology and people yell at you about it in school then you learn how to keep your stuff secure. The worst thing that I think a lot of people do is keep the same password across multiple accounts but since each site has a variation on requirements all my passwords are slightly different. Unless they are in networking, IT, or security, adults just go with whatever people tell them to do. That is why they have to be yelled at by people in IT so this stuff doesn't happen.

I remember back when this happened there were all sorts of rumours going around surrounding exploits and vulnerabilities in iCloud accounts. One theory even had it that somebody had hijacked the Wifi at an awards show and middle-manned a bunch of login information. Looks like it was just a simple phishing scheme!

Respect for the fallen comrade for providing many faps.

[QUOTE=rndgenerator;51277772]Respect for the fallen comrade for providing many faps.[/QUOTE] Not really a comrade, more like a piece of shit. Plenty of porn out there you could sadly wank to without compromising people's privacy.

[QUOTE=Takuat;51277911]Not really a comrade, more like a piece of shit. Plenty of porn out there you could sadly wank to without compromising people's privacy.[/QUOTE] do you hate wanking or somin

[QUOTE=Xephio;51278089]do you hate wanking or somin[/QUOTE] nah man its kind of creepy when people do shit like this especially on this kind of scale honestly if you want to find something to fap to there's a fuck ton of whatever you might be into just by using Google. It's not cool to be violating peoples' privacy just to get your jollies off.

[QUOTE=Xephio;51278089]do you hate wanking or somin[/QUOTE] all fine and dandy until pics of your naked mom leaks out :weeb:

Those nudes were extremely overrated anyway. I really don't get the appeal In any event, it's only fair that he get prison time, and what he did was not admirable in the slightest

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51277008]edit: oh and if you don't know. He basically leaked a bunch of celebrity nudes on the internet.[/QUOTE] mmmm I still remember it like it was yesterday [video=youtube;rjcBAiZinzk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjcBAiZinzk[/video]

It is pretty sour that many people now think that iCloud is easy to hack or think that iCloud is just a insecure mess

[QUOTE=Matthew0505;51278326]Why do you specifically need leaked celebrity nudes for wanking[/QUOTE] The more popular a celebrity is, the higher the curiosity. It's why people care about celebrity news in general, even though that's boring as fuck to most of us here. I'm not gonna judge people for looking at the nude leaks. At the end of the day, not looking at the images doesn't undo the leak either, and is it really any of my business if someone's into celebrity nudes?

Good, what a fucking creep.

Not to defend that guy, but if you don't want people to see nudies of you, you really shouldn't make any in the first place.

[QUOTE=Cureless;51280265]Not to defend that guy, but if you don't want people to see nudies of you, you really shouldn't make any in the first place.[/QUOTE] are you serious? actually think about what you're saying for a moment

[QUOTE=Cureless;51280265]Not to defend that guy, but if you don't want people to see nudies of you, you really shouldn't make any in the first place.[/QUOTE] ... so if someone decides to send and intimate picture to their lover, it's somehow THEIR fault if some sleezy fuck hacks their way in and steals them? Are you fucking high?

[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;51280887]are you serious? actually think about what you're saying for a moment[/QUOTE] It's not their fault this happened i don't think many people will try and argue that it is, it's not victim blaming. But in this day and age given what we all know of technology and the internet and by extension other people, be that some random cunt on the internet or a scorn'd ex, it is a risk that you have to be aware of, the only sure fire way to not be a victim of this shit is to not do it in the first place. anyway 18 months is pretty leneient given the names of people affected by this, I was almost certain they'd throw the book at him and make an example, but then again that might come with lawsuits.

[QUOTE=Cureless;51280265]Not to defend that guy, but if you don't want people to see nudies of you, you really shouldn't make any in the first place.[/QUOTE] That's some retarded shit right there. Sharing nudes is a normal part of most healthy sexual relationships in the 21st century. plus you're blaming the victims here who had a reasonable expectation of privacy

[QUOTE=Cureless;51280265]Not to defend that guy, but if you don't want people to see nudies of you, you really shouldn't make any in the first place.[/QUOTE] Or maybe instead of blaming the victims you can be angry at the guy that hacked their nude photos and committed a crime? "If you don't want to be raped, don't dress a certain way" How is "Don't take nudes if you don't want them to be hacked" any different than the above statement? People should be able to do whatever they want and not expect to be victims of a crime

Is this the sentence hackers get for leaking "normal person" nudes?

[QUOTE=Viper_;51281613]Is this the sentence hackers get for leaking "normal person" nudes?[/QUOTE] They're usually different crimes. Lots of nudes are leaked by shitty exes for example, I think "normal person" nudes usually fall under that. This involved hacking (well social engineering.) Usually they dont get charged at all apparently

Any judgement I make on the people that had this happen to them wouldn't be fair because I'm knowledgeable enough about phishing emails to not fall for them and protective enough to not store my nudes on the fucking cloud of all places, but I really just don't get why you'd store them on the cloud in the first place. Like say you want to send them to someone, surely you wouldn't need to hang onto them after hitting send, right? And if they just ended up syncing the pics on accident by plugging their phone into their Mac, why did they leave them on there in the first place? I'm not blaming them for it or anything, but I don't understand why they were there in the first place. If I were to take a nude pic the literal first thing I would do after hitting send is delete it because I can't see any benefits to leaving it there and plenty of negatives that could arise from its existence. [editline]a[/editline] Maybe celebrities are extremely protective of their phones and they figure "nobody'll ever touch my phone, let alone browse my image gallery so I'm not going to bother deleting it" or something, I don't know, I'm not one of them.

[QUOTE=gk99;51281831]Any judgement I make on the people that had this happen to them wouldn't be fair because I'm knowledgeable enough about phishing emails to not fall for them and protective enough to not store my nudes on the fucking cloud of all places, but I really just don't get why you'd store them on the cloud in the first place. Like say you want to send them to someone, surely you wouldn't need to hang onto them after hitting send, right? And if they just ended up syncing the pics on accident by plugging their phone into their Mac, why did they leave them on there in the first place? I'm not blaming them for it or anything, but I don't understand why they were there in the first place. If I were to take a nude pic the literal first thing I would do after hitting send is delete it because I can't see any benefits to leaving it there and plenty of negatives that could arise from its existence. [editline]a[/editline] Maybe celebrities are extremely protective of their phones and they figure "nobody'll ever touch my phone, let alone browse my image gallery so I'm not going to bother deleting it" or something, I don't know, I'm not one of them.[/QUOTE] AFAIK iPhones sync everything to iCloud by default and people who fall for phishing aren't going to go turn it off.

[QUOTE=Aredbomb;51277118]I wish the media would stop insisting on the term "Celebgate". The only people who ever called it that were the people who don't use the internet and thus couldn't have found out about it firsthand.[/QUOTE] Could we just stop adding the word "gate" to the end of everything even remotely scandalous?

I don't get why that hacker, as bad as he is, should get such a hard sentence for leaking "celeb" nudes while TONS of normal people's unauthorized nudes get published all over the various trashcans of the internet. Hell there are even imageboards like anon-ib where you can sort by [I]region[/I] where bumfucks publish nudes of unaware people all day long. Do you think revenge porn causes less damage to the victims than the fappening stuff ?

[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;51280887]are you serious? actually think about what you're saying for a moment[/QUOTE] Knowledge about just how private technology is today (not very) would probably dissuade most people from sending these things over the internet. But most people just don't know, its not their fault but at some point you have to realize either some hacker or some guy at the NSA is going to have your pics if your using a modern phone to take and send them.