The Fappening

GasBandit

GasBandit

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There's been a major hack of the apple iCloud, and several celebrity women have had nude pictures stolen or leaked, among them Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Upton and a bunch more I can't be bothered to remember. The perpetrator is releasing the pictures in dribs and drabs on 4chan, and claims there are movies, too, but is asking for bitcoins before he releases those. The event has been dubbed "the fappening," and naturally it has its own subreddit already.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/jennifer-lawrence-ariana-grande-picture-leak

(Above link is SFW)

Just shows ta go ya, nothing digital is safe.

Also, Lawrence's agent has apparently never heard of the Streisand Effect.
 
Dave

Dave

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This whole thing sickens me. Talk about an invasion of privacy. Yes, I'm that guy. The guy who reported every thread without looking at them. I did look at the first few until I realized what was happening. Reddit decries the NSA yet doesn't seem to mind if the things hacked gets them off. Fucking hypocrites.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I got really confused earlier; the Jennifer Lawrence leaks showed up on my Tumblr dashboard and I think the girls reblogging them from a LGTB blog didn't know they were leaks against her will since the captions were going "thank you" and "you're so beautiful", as if Lawrence had wanted those out there. It was surreal.

Obviously the fact that this happened in disgusting, and I agree with Dave about the whole anti-NSA, pro-invasion of privacy being hypocritical bullshit.[DOUBLEPOST=1409546569,1409546425][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, this is the same iCloud issue that hadn't been fixed while Apple continued to ping people about logging into it. Yay.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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The irony here is that if they, instead of their iPhone 5's, had elected to use old style, low tech Polaroids... their nudes would still be secure.

Analog 4Eva, brobeans.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

GasBandit said:
The irony here is that if they, instead of their iPhone 5's, had elected to use old style, low tech Polaroids... their nudes would still be secure.

Analog 4Eva, brobeans.
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Exactly, analog. Did none of them watch the first couple episodes of Battlestar Galactica?
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I honestly thought Jennifer Lawrence's were on purpose at first because her Hunger Games co-star Jena Malone had done so a couple months back. Funny thing, when it's the celebrity's choice, no one talks about it. When the photos are stolen and released against her will, it's big news (plus apparently they're sluts--cause that makes fucking sense. People are fucking stupid.)
Now just waiting on Donald Sutherland nudes.
 
Mathias

Mathias

Zero Esc said:
I honestly thought Jennifer Lawrence's were on purpose at first because her Hunger Games co-star Jena Malone had done so a couple months back. Funny thing, when it's the celebrity's choice, no one talks about it. When the photos are stolen and released against her will, it's big news (plus apparently they're sluts--cause that makes fucking sense. People are fucking stupid.)
Now just waiting on Donald Sutherland nudes.
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Silly boy, women aren't allowed to have sexual thoughts and fantasies !
 
Mathias

Mathias

What was the actual breach at Apple? Did they just use shitty encoding or something?[DOUBLEPOST=1409576439,1409576019][/DOUBLEPOST]Ok, this made me laugh:



 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Mathias said:
What was the actual breach at Apple? Did they just use shitty encoding or something?
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I wasn't able to find anything specific. There was a certificate breach a while back, but that got fixed. I am assuming this was done via the same process as the iCloud "ransomeware" thing except that instead of locking the phone and demanding payment, the attacker either harvested pictures at that time or else turned on the Photo Stream sharing to be able to lurk any uploaded photos for later.[DOUBLEPOST=1409577592,1409577540][/DOUBLEPOST]
Zero Esc said:
Didn't you hear his voice in Rise of the Guardians?
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I was actually going to reference RotG, but even though *I* saw it recently, I didn't know how fresh it was in everyone else's mind here.

--Patrick
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

PatrThom said:
I was actually going to reference RotG, but even though *I* saw it recently, I didn't know how fresh it was in everyone else's mind here.

--Patrick
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I can't speak for everyone else's mind since Dave kicked me out of the hive-link, but my wife adores that movie, and even when I first saw it and didn't like it as much as I do now, the first point where Pitch speaks, I thought, "Wow, they told him to really sex up that villain voice."
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Zero Esc said:
the first point where Pitch speaks, I thought, "Wow, they told him to really sex up that villain voice."
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They actually call out in the "behind the scenes" stuff, that they were not prepared for how "beautiful" Jude Law's voice would be.

--Patrick
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I looked at them. I even posted a link to them all in the NSFW subforum. But then my guilty conscience surged and I deleted it. Dave's right. It's a huge invasion of privacy. There's nothing wrong with these women taking sexy or nude pictures, but they were for PRIVATE eyes. Not private eyes in the Dill sense, mind you.

But yeah, now I just feel bad about the whole situation. Hell, I even said something like "Well, they should've taken the pictures in the first place." But someone I follow on Twitter put it perfectly: that's the internet equivilant of saying "she shouldn't have worn something that revealing."
 
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Hylian

Hylian

I must admit I did look at a few but as I started to look at them I got a strong sense of guilt. I just felt super creepy like I was peering into a part of a person's life that I wasn't supposed to see. So I quickly clicked out and refused to look at anymore.
 
Mathias

Mathias

stienman said:
At the moment no one is certain that it's an iCloud hack. That's merely the most likely reason.

Further, "hack" would likely be overstating it. The data, including photos, are encrypted in transit and on the iCloud servers. You have to know the user's apple account username (email, easy to get) and password (often the same password they use on less secure services which have suffered data breaches).

One of the downsides of the cloud. A reason to use two factor authentication when available, though apple hasn't done this yet.

It's possible that this comes from a more serious breach or breaking of iCloud. Time will tell. But the breaches that have been occurring since the SSL fix all seem to be simple knowledge of account credentials.

Use different passwords for each service you use. Use strong passwords. Use two factor authentication where possible. Don't store anything in the cloud that you consider particularly sensitive, or can't afford to lose.
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I can barely remember my street address most days, let alone 10 different strong passwords.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

GasBandit said:
Well here's one I know you all were dying to see-

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What the fuuuuuuuuuuuck[DOUBLEPOST=1409584131,1409584018][/DOUBLEPOST]
Mathias said:
I can barely remember my street address most days, let alone 10 different strong passwords.
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Use song lyrics with a couple numbers at the end.

Also, for unimportant sites, I think it's okay to use a same password between them. The crucial stuff is where you need something unique to that one, like primary email, a site you regularly buy stuff from, etc.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

stienman said:
use two factor authentication when available, though apple hasn't done this yet.
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2FA is available, but only to protect the use of the account itself (logging into the website, changing personal info, or associating new devices with the account). It is not used to directly encrypt any of that content (except possibly in transit).

--Patrick
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Mathias said:
I can barely remember my street address most days, let alone 10 different strong passwords.
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For lots of sites, I pretty much have to reset my password every time I want to use them. Can't remember them at all.

I understand the danger of reusing passwords, but I really hate having to reset my passwords constantly.
 
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