It isn't Upton in the vid. Same as the alleged money shot of Lawrence isn't her either. The bloke who 'hacked' ('guessed' would be more accurate) the passwords of these accounts has no more photos to reveal, and no videos at all. It's all just Internet bullshit - though I guess now there are a few more celebrities out there with tit photos if that's the kind of thing that floats your boat.
It isn't Upton in the vid. Same as the alleged money shot of Lawrence isn't her either. The bloke who 'hacked' ('guessed' would be more accurate) the passwords of these accounts has no more photos to reveal, and no videos at all. It's all just Internet bullshit - though I guess now there are a few more celebrities out there with tit photos if that's the kind of thing that floats your boat.
I'll inbox you a link... There are definitely quite a few. Don't want the FBI at my door so won't post it!
The arguament "well they shouldn't have taken the/uploaded them in the first place" is a flawed one. An iPhone automatically backs up your photos through iCloud (if you have it turned on) and even if you remove them from your phone they may not be removed from the iCloud servers.
Due to their line of work a lot of these people are find themselves in long distance relationships, something I understand, and so sometimes the occasional naughty snap could be shared between two people. What we need to remember is that we have no right to be looking at these pictures. The issue here isn't with the fact that these people have taken some dirty pictures, but that iCloud software has let down it's users.
I'm not going to try and claim some kind of morale high ground though, we have no entitlement to view these images but I still have.
Edit: Also please make sure you know how cloud software works. You either have it on and so it backs up everything on your phone, or you don't and risk losing everything if your phone gets stolen, damaged etc. Most people are often completely oblivious to the fact that their images and messages are backing up anyway, that doesn't make them "f**king idiots" and mean they are not entitled to do as they wish with their own body in what they had assumed was in privacy.
You make the most salient point in the last line, "in what they had assumed was privacy" - yep, as they say in the movies "Assumption is the Mother of all Fuck Ups."
You should never assume anything about technology or the Internet, assuming your photos are safe in the Cloud is like assuming that nice Dr. Shipman is just having a bad run with his patients.
As you say, you CAN choose to not back up your stuff to iCloud - you could back it up to a more secure location of course - and people (especially rich famous ones) should probably make themselves aware of this before putting close-up pictures of their bearded clam onto their iPad.
This is where you lose me. They are normal people, they have their own private lives and their own private relationships, they don't deserve to have their intimate pictures paraded on the internet for all to see.
Hmmm, you'll have to remind me where I said they "deserve to have their intimate pictures paraded on the Internet for all to see." Oh, that's right I didn't say that at all.
What I said was that people with their resources to legal counsel should probably make themselves aware of the dangers of putting explicit pictures into the Cloud.
Let me articulate this better. You seem to be justifying the theft of their intimate images because they are 1) famous 2) use the same iCloud software we all use.
Also I'm not sure anybody, no matter who they are, should have to go to their lawyer after taking a picture of their beaver.
Er, not all of us are stupid enough to use iCloud software.
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