“Nudes are an inconvenient truth of the mobile era. The combination of ever-more-powerful cameras and ever-more-convenient sharing mechanisms has made the exchange of explicit pictures a fact of life for nearly everyone seeking romantic connections online. Yet when it comes to managing explicit photographs, technology generally has not been our friend,” Casey Newton reports for The Verge. “Mobile camera rolls seem to not take the existence of nudes into account, as anyone who ever stumbled across an odd penis while scrolling through a friend’s device can tell you. And as we saw during the 2014 Celebgate hack [The Fappening], photos stored online using services like iCloud can be vulnerable to breaches.”
“Private photo vault apps have existed for years. Nude, a new app from two 21-year-old entrepreneurs from UC Berkeley, attempts to create the most sophisticated one yet. Its key innovation is using machine learning libraries stored on the phone to scan your camera roll for nudes automatically and remove them to a private vault,” Newton reports. “The app is now available on iOS, and I spent the past week testing it.”
“Jessica Chiu and Y.C. Chen, who built the app together with a small team, said they received constant inquiries when promoting the app at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference,” Newton reports. “Chiu says she became interested in nudes-related business models after speaking with Hollywood actresses as part of a movie project she’s working on. Each had sensitive images on their phones or laptop, she said, and expressed doubts about how to keep them secure. When Chiu returned to Berkeley, friends would pass her their phones to look at recent photos they had taken, and she would inevitably swipe too far and see nudity… When Nude finds what it believes to be nude photos, it moves them to a private, PIN-protected vault inside the app.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple makes sharing photos and videos very easy; too easy in some cases, depending on the contents of the photographs and videos.
As we wrote back in August: We’re hoping Apple will just allow us to truly hide and password protect photos and videos right in the Photos app, or even in the camera app (via, for example, a lock/unlock icon in the Camera app where “locked” signifies that you’re currently shooting password-protected photo/video that will not be shared via My Photo Stream and that will be locked in iCloud Photo Library).
The Nude app via Apple’s App Store is here.
SEE ALSO:
How to make sure you remove photos from iCloud Photo Library – October 10, 2017
How to hide photos and videos on your iPhone in a locked and private album – August 24, 2017
Second ‘Fappening’ hacker who targeted celebrity Apple accounts sentenced to 9 months in prison – January 26, 2017
36-year-old man to plead guilty to iCloud ‘Fappening’ celebrity nude photo theft – March 15, 2016
‘Fappening’ celebrity nude leak suspect alleged to have hacked 572 iCloud accounts – June 10, 2015
iCloud accounts at risk after hacker releases tool allowing access to any login – January 2, 2015
Jennifer Lawrence calls nude photo hacking a ‘sex crime’ – October 7, 2014
Apple’s iCloud security nightmare gets worse as more nude celebrity pics leak – September 21, 2014
Since the celebrity nude iCloud hacks, one third of Americans have improved their online security – September 8, 2014
Apple denies iCloud breach – September 3, 2014
How easy is it to crack into an Apple iCloud account? We tried to find out – September 3, 2014
Celeb nudes: Comprehensive review of forum posts reveals no mention of ‘Find My iPhone’ brute force technique – September 2, 2014
Apple’s iCloud is secure; weak passwords and gullible users are not – September 2, 2014
Apple: No iCloud breach in celebrity nude photos leak – September 2, 2014
FBI, Apple investigating alleged iCloud hack of celebrity nude, sex photos and videos – September 2, 2014
Celebrity or not, Apple isn’t responsible for your nude photos – September 2, 2014
Apple ‘actively investigating’ Jennifer Lawrence, other nude celebrity photos hack – September 1, 2014
To paraphrase Eric T Mole, don’t take photos if you don’t want your mother to see them.
Then again, what i do in my private life, as long as no one is being abuse or is under age and everything is voluntary, then it’s nobody’s business.
Reminds me of an episode from “Silicon Valley” on HBO.
Laughing with coworkers, I tried to check this out and really give the scoop. They count on me for things like this. The problem: I can’t find the app!!!! WTH?
The app is hidden amongst your sensitive photos.
Who the hell feels the need to carry around naked photos of themselves? Much of a narcissist?
When you date, pictures get exchanged.
I’ve got some nude photos of my GF’s female cat in some revealing poses. That’s it. And the cat looks awkward.
The default for iCloud Photo Library is for every image ever taken on any device on the account (or added from other sources, like emails or the Web) that has not been expressly deleted to be available forever on each of the devices.
Absolute non sequitur. Again. People who live in Trump Towers shouldn’t cast stones. Which is also completely unrelated to the topic, but botvinnik would be disappointed if I didn’t say it.
…and the award for best pervert in a leading role goes to…
That says it all.
Next category, Best Supporting Actress in a “Russian Uranium Deal”
Julius & Ethel Clinton both belong in the electric chair.
There is no more electric chair. It has to be death by injection.. uh, when they can secure the necessary poisons. It seems they are in short supply. Once again, Big Pharma rules.
The Dodgers are evil and must be stopped by the Yankees.
Yanks caught-up last night in a noble comeback of historic proportions against the Southern Princes Of Darkness …easily the best game of the post-season thus far.
The Ghost of The Bambino walks again!
Republicans have a bunch of candidates for best pervert in a supporting role. You oughtn’t maliciously open up the nominations this way.
yeah, except Republican perverts like Hastert go to prison..
Libtard “justice.”
just frickin cut the politics out…ridiculous…
Politics. Its the food of the weak minded.