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comment by aerowid
aerowid  ·  3734 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Great Naked Celebrity Photo Leak of 2014 is Just the Beginning

I mean, if you don't want to risk your private nude photos being leaked, don't store then on the cloud. I'm not blaming the celebrities here as some people have but I do think they could have prevented it if they were more security conscious. I wish this had turned into a discussion about protecting your data.





kleinbl00  ·  3734 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And if you don't want your banking details stolen, don't use a debit card.

And if you don't want your identity stolen, don't get mail.

You are, in fact, blaming the celebrities here. You're essentially pointing to an arbitrary line and suggesting that if these women had been on the other side of that arbitrary line, they'd be fine. But you don't have enough information to know where to put that line or where to put their behavior. So in the end, you're suggesting that if you don't want your naked pics on the Internet you shouldn't take naked pics, which is a less than sympathetic position to take.

Don't get me wrong: the fingerprint sensor on my wife's iPhone doesn't know her fingerprint. Why? I don't trust Apple with data like that. It's not like you can change your fingerprints and once they're leaked, they're leaked. But there's an expectation of privacy with your own personal data and the onus is on the provider of the cloud service to protect that privacy, not on the user.