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Hacked/leaked nude photos discussion
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 03 Sep 2014, 19:11 ---Except, they didn't "leave the diamonds out" someone broke in and stole them.
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Sit and spin. If you leave you diamonds out on top of your bed and someone breaks in, are they going to take them? If you have them locked up in a safe or hidden somewhere like a shoebox (i.e. secure encrypted storage or not on the cloud and other places that are relatively easy to hack or illegally access) someone might STILL break in, but they won't necessarily get your diamonds.
--- Quote from: Patrick on 03 Sep 2014, 19:23 ---
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 03 Sep 2014, 19:11 ---Getting back to this Hufflepuff business...
It's not exploitation when a woman like Ariana Huffington does it, it's empowerment! Stupid? Yes, but still a valid excuse.
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Gonna push pause right there. Since when does one woman objectifying other women put the power in the hands of all women? I'm all for letting women dictate what happens to their bodies but I have a hard time understanding what makes it okay for women to turn around and objectify each other for personal gain. It sounds self-serving and purpose-defeating.
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Pat I am 97% certain that Mustang was being sarcastic and that was in fact his point.
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 03 Sep 2014, 19:39 ---A lot of them are going to come out of this smelling like roses.
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I honestly don't see how any of them are going to be remotely negatively affected regarding their careers. It might actually provide a small boost to some of the more B/C list starlets and models if they play their cards right and have a decent publicist.
Criminal liability aside, I liked this article's take on the whole thing:
http://www.sixpackabs.com/why-i-dont-want-to-see-jennifer-lawrence-naked/
Edit: And Stephen Colbert has joined me into laying into Huffington Post with a baseball bat with nails in it.
http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/7ohwx8/celebrity-nude-photo-scandal?xrs=synd_facebook_090314_cn_45
The Seldom Killer:
Another rather depressing dimension to this came up yesterday with kids going back to school. Perhaps unsurprisingly, teenagers also use their phones to take pictures and end up with them getting hacked and shared around without their permission. With this being a prominent recent event involving people that teenagers are likely to follow and idolize, this has raked over all of the horrors and anxieties of when their own privacy was invaded. Just to turn the knife in the wound, it's also prompting another round of resharing. All the people in the media and on the internet harping on about how the celebrities should have taken better security measures with their material is just heaping onto the teenager's anxieties of self-blame and being vulnerable to further exposure and humiliation.
Of course in this brave new world, some school counsellors and childrens services workers are feeling rather ill-equipped to deal with this new challenge and how to provide meaningful support and advice leaving them feel inadequate as well. Another lovely little spike in stress levels, poor school attendance and educational issues.
Thrillho:
I think this is a combination of what is morally right vs. what is reasonably expected.
If you're a celebrity, people will try to hack your shit. It's not a victim's fault for them being hacked, at all. But you have to have a reasonable expectation that this shit may get stolen. That is, sadly, the world we live in, because the paparazzi are fucking horrible and people are fucking horrible. It is a horrible thing to happen that no one should have to endure, but sadly that doesn't mean it wouldn't happen or doesn't happen.
That doesn't make it the victim's fault, at all. I am just not even the slightest bit surprised that it's happened, and I hope that these hackers get fucking screwed to the wall for it (you know, if this was actually a hacking occurrence). I'd like to think that society's actual attitude may be changed somehow by this having happened so that it's not considered the norm or even expected that celebrity nudes will leak.
Amusingly, 'Come Undone' by Robbie Williams has just started playing on my shuffled playlist, which is largely about the love/hate relationship celebrities have with the press.
sitnspin:
There is more that telecom companies could do to increase security, not just for celebrities but for everyone.
Personally, I don't have pictures of myself anywhere online or even on a computer. Partly because I'm paranoid as f**k and partly because I am a borderline Luddite.
Pilchard123:
What is this magic that allows me to communicate with others in distant and terrible lands? Devilry! Devilry, I say!
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