Cyber Hacker has posted Naked photos of many celebs Online (according to Daily Mail)

[Singra]

Exactly.

It's like people who click a link within an email that screams phishing scam and turn over their entire identity! That is a horrid situation, but Jesus Christ, pick up a newspaper once in awhile and get to know what's happening in the world and how easy it is for people with the right skills to access your online information and thus real life identity.

People don't want to have to think before they do things. They want to do whatever they want in the moment and that be the end of it. It doesn't always work that way.

Yeah but also there are tons of people who are just not that tech savy and they put a lot of (obviously misplaced) trust in the products they use.

Also Apple makes it really easy for these types of situations... everything's made super easy with one or two clicks and that makes it a lot easier for people not to put serious effort in.

 

[jimmyshoogirl]

Also if the information released by the hacker/s had been sensitive financial or security information people wouldn't be saying... "well if you're foolish enough to do that..."

It was photos but it could have been other sensitive information.

Look at those hackers who recently got a hold of passwords to millions to accounts around the world if they sell those passwords there's gonna be a lot of unhappy people.

Exactly. I bet those people that got their cards hacked at Target or Neiman Marcus wasn't saying, "well I guess I can't use cards anymore." Nor were the comments, "well basic common sense tells you not use cards" or "it's not gonna kill you to not use cards." Then if they carried only cash the comments would be "common sense tells you not to carry cash. Duh!" I mean it is online when the payments are taken so I guess that's fair game, too. My point is you can't win either way. Why stop living.

Luckily for people that follow celebs on a daily basis there will be some other drama that will entertain them. This will be short lived.

 

[Swanky]

Do the folks who blame the celebs also feel like if you allow your child to play outside then you deserve for them to be kidnapped?
I see people walk ten steps from their purses in their cart at a supermarket or leave their cell phone on a table to retrieve their order at SBux....doesn't mean I'm justified in snatching THEIR property.


Oy.... the entitlement.

 

[FreeSpirit71]

Do the folks who blame the celebs also feel like if you allow your child to play outside then you deserve for them to be kidnapped?
I see people walk ten steps from their purses in their cart at a supermarket or leave their cell phone on a table to retrieve their order at SBux....doesn't mean I'm justified in snatching THEIR property.


Oy.... the entitlement.

Thank you Swanky. Those are good examples. I feel like every time something comes up to do with women's sexuality etc, the go-to reaction is to somehow reflect the blame on to the women. In this instance, the only thing they did was to believe their photos were safe, which is not a crime.

The focus should be on the perpetrator not the victims.

 

[Echoes]

If you're responsible, you keep your eye on your kids, your bag and your phone so some schmuck doesn't get the opportunity to do wrong.

 

[FreeSpirit71]

If you're responsible, you keep your eye on your kids, your bag and your phone so some schmuck doesn't get the opportunity to do wrong.

That's never an excuse for scumbags to commit a crime.

 

[HauteMama]

Then why make laws prohibiting people from leaving a child unattended in a car - at gas stations, for example? Isn't that "victim blaming"? No one is saying that no crime was committed here; what we're trying to do is to get others not to make the same mistakes. Apparently sometimes you need to legislate common sense.

 

[FreeSpirit71]

Then why make laws prohibiting people from leaving a child unattended in a car - at gas stations, for example? Isn't that "victim blaming"? No one is saying that no crime was committed here; what we're trying to do is to get others not to make the same mistakes. Apparently sometimes you need to legislate common sense.

Leaving a child in a car is against the law - taking nude selfies is not. I'll say it again, these people were naive, believing in a product that was no doubt marketed as safe. But that ain't a crime.

Focus should be where it's warranted - on the hacker/s.

 

[HauteMama]

My point is that no one should have had to legislate that leaving a child unattended in a car is a crime; that's common sense. Even when it is only for a minute or two and conditions would not otherwise pose a threat to that child's health. No one passed those laws until it became clear that people weren't taking reasonable precautions on their own. All anyone is saying here is that people need to take reasonable precautions in the future if they don't want their nudies going viral. Again, kidnapping a child or stealing a car is still a crime, even if the person who left the child unattended broke a law. So is hacking someone's account. We all agree that a crime was committed. But if some teenager can learn a lesson here and NOT have this happen to them by taking precautions these celebrities did not take, then that's a good thing IMO.

 

[FreeSpirit71]

@HauteMama I agree with your point that hopefully teenagers out there will learn a valuable lesson that they need to be careful with this kind of thing - because there are opportunists like this jerk-off that will take advantage of access.

 

[labelwhore04]

Do the folks who blame the celebs also feel like if you allow your child to play outside then you deserve for them to be kidnapped?
I see people walk ten steps from their purses in their cart at a supermarket or leave their cell phone on a table to retrieve their order at SBux....doesn't mean I'm justified in snatching THEIR property.


Oy.... the entitlement.

Um, nobody said that. People trying to argue against others who are simply saying to use common sense is baffling. No crime is justifiable. All anyone is saying is that there are things you can do to PREVENT crimes from happening.

 

[Sasha2012]

Has Jennifer Lawrence already responded? I feel like almost all headlines about this topic include Jennifer Lawrence name and picture. Why? Are most of the pictures hers?

Jennifer's lawyers /reps have responded by saying if anyone posts the pics they'll sue and that it's an invasion of privacy. She's the biggest name of the celebs whose pics have been leaked. Hers leaked first and Perez Hilton and other blogger put up her pics before removing it from backlash and her reps basically confirmed they're real which is why she was trending all day on twitter. Becca Tobin from glee responded on twitter saying Merry XXXMas. Victoria Justice and Ariana Grande have denied the pics being of them although I 've seen photo evidence suggesting Victoria is lying. I'm surprised Kate Upton hasn't responded tons of her pictures were posted with Justin Verlander. I saw some of Dave Franco at some nude party and Bar Rafeli is nasty sticking a curling iron up her backdoor.

 

[labelwhore04]

That's never an excuse for scumbags to commit a crime.

Who said it was an excuse? I don't understand how mitigating risk and exercising common sense means that you're excusing the criminal. Where are you getting this from? I don't see how the two are connected. It's about protecting yourself.
If your teenage daughter goes to a party and leaves her phone on a table and someone steals it, would you not remind her to keep a careful eye on her stuff so she can avoid the same situation next time? or is that victim blaming too?

 

[FreeSpirit71]

Who said it was an excuse? I don't understand how mitigating risk and exercising common sense means that you're excusing the criminal. Where are you getting this from? I don't see how the two are connected. It's about protecting yourself.
If your teenage daughter goes to a party and leaves her phone on a table and someone steals it, would you not remind her to keep a careful eye on her stuff so she can avoid the same situation next time? or is that victim blaming too?

Everything I want to say, Clementine Ford said in the post that I put up a couple of hours ago, and she did it far more eloquently. That's it from me. You guys keep arguing over it. I know where I stand.

 

[ByeKitty]

Who said it was an excuse? I don't understand how mitigating risk and exercising common sense means that you're excusing the criminal. Where are you getting this from? I don't see how the two are connected. It's about protecting yourself.
If your teenage daughter goes to a party and leaves her phone on a table and someone steals it, would you not remind her to keep a careful eye on her stuff so she can avoid the same situation next time? or is that victim blaming too?

I wouldn't even carry my purse open... I'm paranoid about people stealing my stuff, and this got worse when I lived in Africa. Seems like people carried out deliberate phone hunts in that particular place. And camera hunts, and wallet hunts, and laptop hunts... Ugh, no. I'd rather be overprotecting than lose my valuables to these idiots.