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

[QUOTE=BelatedGamer;51281897]Could we just stop adding the word "gate" to the end of everything even remotely scandalous?[/QUOTE] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w[/media]

Good, what an asshole. I was incredibly disturbed by the reaction to the ~lol fappening~. Not surprised, but still disturbed. There are pages and pages and pages of the weirdest, wildest, most extreme porn on the internet, readily available for everyone to wank to- but apparently a lack of consent on behalf of the people featured makes these particular images soooo much better!.

[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] 'I better not do anything in case I get hacked and it gets revealed' its not like they're underage or something where they shouldn't have those types of pictures.

[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] Many celebs have no idea how technology works, since it's not their area of expertise

[QUOTE=helifreak;51281837]AFAIK iPhones sync everything to iCloud by default and people who fall for phishing aren't going to go turn it off.[/QUOTE] Like [I]immediately[/I] though? I haven't owned an iPhone since the 3GS so I wouldn't know. [editline]a[/editline] [QUOTE=Fourier;51282682]Many celebs have no idea how technology works, since it's not their area of expertise[/QUOTE] That's pretty much the point of the first sentence I put. If I was like "how fucking dumb do you have to be to fall for a phishing email/store nudes on the cloud" the answer would be "about as dumb as the average person who hasn't been using the internet since they were 6"

honestly i'm more impressed by the fact it was a pure phishing scheme how'd he get the starting email to enter celebrity email land, it's not like taylor swift's gmail account is public information

[QUOTE=Xephio;51278089]do you hate wanking or somin[/QUOTE] The one with Jennifer Lawrence that a friend mentioned at school looked like she put on pounds before the Hunger Games. Honestly if people wanted to jerk off to celebs, they should just Google lookalikes or TMZ. High profile people or no, stealing their images and posting them online is as illegal as illegal gets.

[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] Let's apply this to any other situation. Some guy has a really expensive collection of jewelry. Oh no! Someone robbed him, even though he was confident that keeping it under lock and key in his house would keep it in his possession. It's not like he was waving it around on the street. You wouldn't tell the guy "shouldn't have had expensive stuff then".

'People should be proactive about their information security and avoid keeping stuff that they wouldn't want made public' is not incompatible with 'People aren't to blame if their content is stolen and distributed without their permission' Doesn't have to be one or the other, guys. Yes, it's a really bad idea to keep nudes on a cloud service if you're in the public spotlight, but that in no way excuses what this guy did and I'm glad he's going to prison. The bottom line is that your own curiosity is not a valid justification for intruding on someone's privacy, and the way some people try to frame it like its the celebrities' fault their nudes got leaked is downright repugnant.

[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;51283434]Let's apply this to any other situation. Some guy has a really expensive collection of jewelry. Oh no! Someone robbed him, even though he was confident that keeping it under lock and key in his house would keep it in his possession. It's not like he was waving it around on the street. You wouldn't tell the guy "shouldn't have had expensive stuff then".[/QUOTE] I dunno, that's kind of how the whole Kardashian thing went down on here. [editline]30th October 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=catbarf;51283466]'People should be proactive about their information security and avoid keeping stuff that they wouldn't want made public' is not incompatible with 'People aren't to blame if their content is stolen and distributed without their permission' Doesn't have to be one or the other, guys. Yes, it's a really bad idea to keep nudes on a cloud service if you're in the public spotlight, but that in no way excuses what this guy did and I'm glad he's going to prison. The bottom line is that your own curiosity is not a valid justification for intruding on someone's privacy, and the way some people try to frame it like its the celebrities' fault their nudes got leaked is downright repugnant.[/QUOTE] Exactly, my opinion on that is "Dude deserves time [I]and[/I] these celebs should really learn a thing or two about digital security."