‘I was just so afraid. I didn’t know how this would affect my career.’That’s just the beginning of what Jennifer Lawrence has to say about her stolen-photos saga in the cover story of Vanity Fair’s November issue, the digital edition of which will be available Wednesday, October 8, and which hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on Thursday, October 9,” Vanity Fair reports.
“‘Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this,’ she says. ‘It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe that we even live in that kind of world,'” Vanity Fair reports. “She had been tempted to write a statement when news of the privacy violation broke, she says, but ‘every single thing that I tried to write made me cry or get angry. I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you.'”
Vanity Fair reports, “In the cover story, the Hunger Games star vents her frustration not just with the offending hackers but also with those—including people she knows—who viewed the images online. ‘Anybody who looked at those pictures, you’re perpetuating a sexual offense. You should cower with shame. Even people who I know and love say, ‘Oh, yeah, I looked at the pictures.’ I don’t want to get mad, but at the same time I’m thinking, I didn’t tell you that you could look at my naked body.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Once again: Too many people use one password for multiple services and weak passwords at that. Once hackers guess that password, they then have access to all sorts of things: cloud storage, bank accounts, Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.
Regardless of the origination of these photos and videos, social engineering hacks can be thwarted, at least for iCloud. Use two-step verification for Apple ID to keep your personal information as secure as possible. More info here.
Always use unique passwords and use Apple’s Keychain Access and iCloud Keychain to create and manage them. When used properly, it works like a dream.
Related articles:
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
Apple’s iCloud not likely the sole source of leaked Jennifer Lawrence, other nude celebrity photos and videos – September 1, 2014
What a naive idiot. It continues to amaze me of the stupidity of these celebrities. Maybe Apple should include a note with every I purchase for celebrities: Do not enable iCloud. Or better yet, just buy a camcorder for your ‘home’ movies.
my favorite is the one with jizz all over her face. parents are proud of that one
And I suppose your parents are proud of you. Hog.
that was one of my favorites too
Like her parents have never had sex?
Intelligent isn’t necessarily part of the job description for being a celebrity. This “hack” wasn’t a sex crime, it was a stupidity crime. People too stupid to use strong passwords deserve what they get.
These people either got phished or their passwords and IDs were too weak to stand against a bit of guesswork. A bit of intelligence or common sense could have resisted both attempts.
Jennifer, if you don’t want naked pics of yourself to appear anywhere online, don’t stand in front of a camera without clothes.
That is a very moronic statement. That is exactly the like telling a girl “if you didn’t want to get raped you shouldn’t have worn that bikini to the beach”, or like telling a bank “if you didn’t want to get robbed you shouldn’t have kept so much money in your vault”. She and other celebrities are victims of a crime. I wouldn’t call it a sex crime, but it’s definitely an invasion of privacy.
The better way to respond in a fashion like that would be like what Matt said below about the lesson being if you are keeping information in digital form (intellectual or personal private photos) be careful about allowing them to be stored on computers and servers not under your control.
There is noting wrong with taking personal photos to share with your loved one. Just be careful where you store your digital data. Make sure it’s in your control.
This would be completely different scenario if her ex had released the photos. At that point it’s not a crime (well, in about 45 states it’s not a crime), it would just be a douchebag ex looking for revenge.
It’s not the same. Macinfo expressed it poorly, but there is nothing wrong with telling people about the dangers they face when they exercise their rights.
I feel that women have an implicit right to feel safe walking down the street no matter what they wear, for instance, but in practicality, there’s lots of crazies out there! People should be made aware of the dangers. Just be aware. If teaching someone how to increase their safety is also political incorrect (which it often is) we have a problem.
This does not say it is her fault, but it does say that in the future, know that there is no way to completely protect you from this sort of activity. You have to be proactive about your security.
Computers and the Internet that now connects them all constitute an extremely complex world that every user should know at least something about, with regard to security. If I say to Ms. Lawrence, “Yes you were wronged, but you should know you have some responsibilities here also,” that is not saying she is at fault, that is saying this is how YOU can help to prevent it from happening in the future.
Why is it that it is ok to warn people about risky behavior in certain circumstances (smoking, riding a motorcycle without a helmet) but in others (dressing provocatively, going to a crappy little bar on the seedy side of town, alone and getting drunk) its considered not ok?
It is possible Macinfo was expressing a point poorly, or expressing a poor point clearly. It looks like the latter to me.
Its ok to warn women of the dangers of dressing provocatively, going somewhere sketchy and getting drunk. It is not ok to tell women “never dress provocatively, go somewhere sketchy and get drunk”.
Life is short, the risk of death is 100%. Everything good comes with some risk. Pushing boundaries at times is as important for quality of life as taking precautions.
Don’t be a victim-blaming asshole. Timing is everything.
To use your analogy, if you lean over the bicyclist lying on the side of the road with a serious head injury and tell him/her: “You should have worn a helmet,” you’re an asshole.
Or, you see someone with emphysema and say “you’re dumb for smoking cigarettes” (ignoring whatever stress/abuse/whatever in their life may have led to that), you’re an asshole.
Same goes here. People who focus on what victims could have done to build impenetrable fortresses of solitude instead of talking about criminals/abusers are assholes.
Telling a woman not to take nude pictures is placing the blame squarely on her. My anology does work perfectly.
In your analogy you are saying if you walk down the street without a concealed weapon or some other way to defend yourself then you had better not be carrying your wallet or any valuables with you since you can not be proactive about your security? If you get mugged at gun point it’s your fault for not being proactive about your security?
Macinfo may have been trying to make a different point, but the words he used to express them placed the blame on the victim.
So, what is the opinion about the person or persons that hacked into the account, stole the pictures, and distributed them online? What portion of the blame do they get for this?
You have go to be kidding. Have you no grasp of reality?
So it’s a ‘given’, if x then y? Really?
The larger lesson is if you make data available in digital form, it can be taken without consent. Sometimes it’s intellectual property, other times it’s account information, and others it’s private photos.
That’s too rational to be seen over poor Jennifer’s hurt feelings though.
Hey look, we agree 🙂
It’s not a sex crime.
Nudity is not criminal, at least not yet.
I think these incidents need to be considered property crimes, and treated as misuse of stolen property, since data (photo) was stolen and used without the owner’s permission.
I agree. Most (if not all) states have laws against selling or profiting from stolen property. So the people trading these pictures in the underground as well as the people hacking these services to get them are breaking laws. But they are not sex crimes. Should they be? That’s an interesting question that should be debated. It will be an interesting debate.
Let’s review:
Take naked pics
Put them online, but behind a weak password
Weak password is found
Pictures are released
And you call it a sex crime?
So you say there is no difference between you, and a rape victim?
Entitlement mentality.
There’re some useful things for good living called Christian Principles. If you stare at your brother’s woman with lust in your heart, you have committed adultery in your heart and mind. From thought to action there’s just one step. I’m on Jenny’s side. You shouldn’t break into someone else’s room just because the door is not locked good, and then avoid your responsibility blaming your victim for not locking her door good. Shess! Where are the heroes and gentlemen gone?
No-one (at least, no-one I’ve read here) is suggesting this was not a crime. The debate seems to be whether the theft of digital photographs, some of which show naked people, is a sex crime (as opposed to some other sort of crime, such as invasion of privacy or theft of property). Most definitions of sex crimes I can find all refer to acts that have a physical aspect, with the exception of child pornography. It seems settled that child pornography is a special category of crime, that by definition doesn’t include photographs of adults.
Christian principals have nothing to do with this. It’s about legal issues.
Bullshit. It’s a moral issue.
I just used the same example. If I leave a key to my house under the mat and someone waltzes in and takes my things, am I not at least partially at fault. My behavior was risky. Perhaps you will excuse me this time for being naive?
Wouldn’t you also be good enough to tell me why my behavior is risky? Or would you leave me ignorant as to the ways of the world? Would you just keep it to yourself because my feelings might get hurt?
And if you told me that out there in the real world there be thieves who look for easy ways to break into houses, and I still put my key under the mat, and it happened again, wouldn’t you feel less sympathy for me?
The way I see it is that people are so conditioned by years of certain types of rhetoric, the the mere idea that we have any personal responsibility at all in our own safety and security is foreign to them.
Hi, nice guy!!
Granted. But, look, more than two thirds of people commenting here blame the victim and make fun of her and take advantage of her naive and gullible security measures. Just ask them: Have you seen Jenny’s pics? Yes. Did you enjoy them? Yes. Did you get horny? Yes. Then, you’re taking your share in the loot. That is not right. Anyway, most of these guys are mediocre and mentally crippled losers, unable to get the real thing whereas hoping to touch heaven with a stupid photo.
I actually haven’t seen *any* of the leaked photos, don’t care to waste time looking for them.
If I wanted to see most of them naked.. I’d watch their movies lol.
Someone else mentioned the point that eludes you.. This dipshit is putting herself on the same level as an actual victim of a sex crime (like rape etc)
I don’t care if it was a “celebrity” or my neighbor, when you do stupid shit… You are not entitled to any different treatment. She wants to be treated different JUST cause she was in a movie.
She doesn’t want to be treated different JUST because she’s a movie star. She wishes laws were improved to punish privacy invasion on internet. Doesn’t she have the right to wish a little, just because she’s a movie star? How’s the one trying to impose a different treatment here?
For starters.
“Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated”
SHE TOOK THE PICTURES, and she wants it to be a crime because she’s stupid.
She wants tougher laws, IE the Government to step in, JUST because she can’t take ANY responsibility for her ignorance.
“I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you.”
if he’s looking at porn, shouldn’t that tell you something…..
Just a little reading.
http://host.jibc.ca/seytoolkit/what.htm
Looked up “Sexual exploration” just cause little miss entitlement thinks she was.
(this may not be the best site to find the answer.. but trust me the search results were not “safe” lol)
Bottom line, she gave consent to have the pics taken.. (She took them) “Sex Crime” can’t be used. now like someone else mentioned, PROPERTY Crime.. now we might be getting somewhere.
Blackmail.. again a possibility.
Sex Crime? not even close.
On that we agree. There should be strong penalties against computer hackers who steal the digital private property of anyone. This is a theft and a violation no different then if someone broke into her home and robbed it. But she was not physically harmed by this incident, and as a matter of fact when she goes in the pages of Vanity Fair to call this a sex crime, she is putting more publicity on the sulatious and giving the hackers more incentive to do the same. I would say since similar tactics have been used to hack government agencies lets make computer hacking a federal crime with a 10 year Federal Prison sentence. Lets really put a deterrent to such crimes.
It’s already illegal.. but lets create MORE laws on top of the existing laws. Cause that will work…
Thank you Jimmy Carter. Adultery is a sin, but except in Muslim countries and the US military seems to no longer be a crime.
Simple – Just don’t take nude photos of yourself – Do you really need them? Really?
This response tells me you didn’t read the article. If you knew the context of why the photos were taken you probably wouldn’t be so quick to put the blame on her.
I would love to see the picture of her up her own ass. Must be plenty judging by this example.
…‘It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime.”
Ah, no, It’s your own fault.
If you ever get carjacked it’s going to be your fault for driving such a nice car. If you ever get your home broken into, it’s because you were stupid enough to have a home in the first place. Bottom line, it will be your fault. So don’t you dare try to blame the person that stole your stuff or press charges against anyone.
That she was the victim of a computer hacker. Yes. That there should be strong penalties for such crimes. Without a doubt. But when Ms. Lawrence suggests this is a sex crime. No. This comes nowhere close to the countless victims is sexual assault. Real sex crimes. Whereas she had my sympathy, since I am the victim of computer hacks and btw I have been assaulted in a robbery having been pistol whipped. Now she is coming across as an entitled celebrity.
My comment was in regards to “it’s your own fault”. It’s not her own fault. It’s not a sex crime. But it’s also not her own fault.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence? Is it that 12 year old looking chick on the cover of Vanity Fair there? Where is hannahjs when I need her opinion to keep me from saying the stupid thing I want to say. You know Jennifer Lawrence should sit down and talk to Taylor Swift. That young woman has a very solid grasp of things Internet, new media, social networking. Not only does she understand them, but she’s using them to her advantage.
If you think the girl on the cover of Vanity Fair looks like a 12-yo, I really think you need to visit an ophthalmologist for a check-up; you seem to have some issues with your visual acuity.
The older you get the younger they look. What is she, 18? 19?
Thelonious, I commented privately to one who would understand me without projecting his own thoughts and emotions onto my words—an every-day hazard in a public forum like this.
Thus any benefit my wisdom (such as it is) might have provided in the way of guidance is cloistered. In the same way that the naked images ought to have done, as has been widely sermonised already. Unless someone hacks my email. In which case I would stand in the same spotlight as Jennifer Lawrence. Please excuse me—I must hurry and change my password from Tall-Irishwoman66 to nme6223L5n-KMSA-fluglehorn-005cRHjs_pwn
If she knew “1984” she’d know that this has nothing to do with “sex crime”.
Nineteen Eighty-Four? Curious. So you’re saying that if she was familiar with the definitive dystopian novel about the dangers of big oppressive socialist governments, the stripping of individual rights from citizens, governments that keep their citizens in a state of fear under perpetual surveillance, governments that don’t just lie but manufacture reality to control their citizens, i.e. real totalitarianism, she would understand morons hacking nude selfies?
Ohhhh. Hunger games!
Things done in the dark do come to the light. That’s a Biblical principle.
Were those pictures selfies? So as earlier stated, the photographer probably saw her and possesses a digital cop, himself.
Crazy Foams!
She used a weak password. She had an expectation of privacy when she stored her photos on line. She’s still the victim and the person who broke into her account is still a thief.
Disagree with all the “don’t take nude pics” posts. That’s too close to the “if you didn’t want to be raped don’t wear that type of dress” idea. If she wants to take nude pics why shouldn’t she. I also disagree with her, it’s not a “sex-crime”. It’s an invasion of privacy and if she’s posting things online she has to take more precautions. It’s this thing called the internet…it’s on computers now.
To inform a victim on how to protect themselves does not mean you don’t respect their situation, it’s just saying there are creeps out there and you’re going to have to grow up and be very careful because they’re just waiting.
It’s weird, isn’t it? Here we have advice being given to one person about to operate (more) safely in an environment that is full of other people… other people who do not give one iota of care about what that one person’s situation is. The person who commits rape is looking for that something which sets one potential target apart from the others. I doubt it has much to do with anything other than appearance, availability and vulnerability. We can all stand on the streets with signs telling the rapist to go away or we can stand on the streets with signs informing potential targets about the risk their choices are creating for them. I guess we should do both, but giving advice to someone who commits rape is probably less successful than giving advice to someone who is otherwise balanced and not suffering from whatever drives someone to commit crimes against others.
I’m not sure whether or not this is a sex crime. Seems to be a lot of armchair lawyers on MDN voicing their opinion. Minors sending nude photos of themselves to others (sexting) has been prosecuted in some jurisdictions. I’d be interested in hearing the opinion of a legal expert on her assertion.
She’s not “disgusted” about people seeing nude photos of her, she’s “disgusted” about not getting paid for it.
Wow, so many people on her are blaming her. SHE IS A VICTIM. While I don’t think it’s a sex crime, the fact is that her personal private information was stolen. Just because she “had a weak password” doesn’t make the crime okay.
That would be like saying “hey, the bank had weak security so it’s okay for me to rob it”.
She is a human being. Her privacy was violated. There is literally no different between this happening to her and this happening to one of your mother’s, or sisters, or girlfriends.
No, its not blaming her. This time. She should now be made aware that there is no way for anyone to protect her when tossing stuff out on the Internet. It’s up to her. She has to take charge of her own safety. Does that mean it’s her “Fault?” No. But if her risky behavior continues and it happens again, I’ll have less sympathy.
I mean Ben, if I put the key to my house under the welcome mat and someone goes in and helps themselves, is that my fault? Would you be wrong for telling me not to do that anymore? And if I did it again and it happened again, would you then consider me to be at least partially at fault?
Thelonious Mac I respectfully disagree with your point.
If you left the key to your house under your mat and someone broke into your home using that very key, I would still maintain you did nothing wrong. I would say it’s not your fault. Could you have been more secure? Sure, but that still doesn’t put ANY fault of that crime onto you.
For that matter, if you left your front door wide open and someone went into your home and stole something, I still would not say it’s your fault. Again, you could have been more secure, but the fault is not yours.
People are supposed to have morals. The bible (among other books say) “Thou Shalt Not Steal”. That is a direction for the person, not a direction for the victim. Even if your front door is open, the person that is breaking “Thou Shalt Not Steal” is in the wrong because they are not exercising morals. They are violating your privacy instead of respecting it.
Many of the comments I was replying to initially simply say “you shouldn’t have taken nude photos” or “you should have had a better password”. The fact is, she should have been more secure. I have not disagreed with a single comment that simply said “be careful where you put your content”. I have however disagreed with those that said “you shouldn’t have created that content”.
I am free to leave my key to my house under my mat. It does not give any person in the world the right to use that key to violate my home.
Your key example to me would be like you saying “you did not get your mail out of your mailbox within moments of it being delivered and someone took it and used your new credit card to steal your identity, so it’s your fault”. When in reality, it would be “have sensitive mail delivered to a more secure place, but you are still within your rights to have sensitive mail delivered to you”.
When taking pictures here’s a thought, KEEP YOUR CLOTHES ON you idiot!
Stop doing stupid stuff that an eleven year old might do and grow up!
That response is misplacing the blame.
I suppose you feel Tracy Morgan is at fault for all of his injuries because he wasn’t wearing a seat belt even though a semi truck driver feel asleep at the wheel and slammed into his car.
It’s not the truck drivers fault, it’s the victims fault. If he was wearing his seat belt he may not have gotten hurt.
I hope you never in your life get intimate pictures from someone you love, and if you do, I hope they are leaked online to prove how stupid your loved one is by the way you judge the situation.
There is no doubt in my mind that Jennifer Lawrence has been the equivalent of raped with a massive audience.
She has been assaulted without the obligative high hard one.
She has been humiliated in front of the whole world.
Blaming her lack of a strong password as a ticket to further humiliate her, over and over again, is just not right.
The son of a bitch who stole and exposed her intimate photos should be drawn and quartered.
I am saddened and disgusted by the responses above. I am a very hetro male, but I feel ashamed that any woman should have to suffer such violation, even a celebrity. The responses above are from the perspective of a male. Perhaps more than a few of you looked at the photos, which I for one refuse to do.
The “she looked sexy, so she had it coming” meme is total BS. Perhaps you think that women should only be seen in public wearing a burka and completely covering their face? If you buy into this, consider yourself to be a misogynist, sexist asshat.
Instead, put yourself into the position of the victim. If you found a compromising photo of yourself circulating on the Web, such as one of you passed out drunk at a college frat party, would you not feel violated? Perhaps in that perspective you might understand how a Jennifer Lawrence might feel. Being a celebrity does not make her invulnerable to having emotions like you and me.
What disturbs me is that the basement-dwelling creeps who started all this are getting a free pass. The punditocracy and media are instead pointing blame on companies like Apple. Yes, we can hide behind the notion that it’s the celebrities’ fault for not following stronger security procedures. But truth be told, their doors were locked (perhaps not bolted shut), and some very pathetic losers broke in, stole their possessions, and ransacked their lives. Yet, they are being labeled as heroes in their dark little corner of the Internet. And none of you are the slightest bit upset about what they did.
Until it happens to you, that is.
Get your heads out of the gutter. Try to be classy. You are better than this.
Apparently, they’re not.
For me this all boils down to; Does the Internet user have any responsibility for their own safety? If we find that their knowledge of risky behavior on the Internet is lacking, should we inform them or keep quiet out of some desire to be politically correct?
I’d rather say to Ms. Lawrence, look, you were wronged, it should not have happened, but these are the risks of the Internet. Here is some guidance on how you can protect yourself. I.e. empower yourself against the creeps who do this. Your assertion that this is a sex crime however is way off kilter. It is theft, nothing more.
So when you go back out there, be aware that no one is looking out for you, no one is going to protect you, no one really cares. So YOU have to.
Same thing I’d tell my child if I had one. Same thing I tell clients. Why some of you think this woman is so special I don’t know, because she’s not.
I mostly agree with this comment. However, the gray area I guess is the word “internet”. I guess people think of the internet as different things. Here’s one thing, Jennifer NEVER EVER used the internet to transmit these pictures, store these pictures, or do ANYTHING with these pictures. The internet only came into play by the people that stole them.
Is the “internet” and “cloud” the same thing? Because these photos were backed up on iCloud, a server that is not accessible via any public protocols. The answer is probably yes.
I guess to reiterate your point I would say when using anything that stores or backs up to any location that is not directly in your home, consider it the internet. iCloud is on the internet. DropBox is on the internet. Those Android backup services are on the internet. They are all susceptible to people breaking in to them.
Essentially teach people the scope of the internet is not simply email and web browsers.
Rule of thumb:
If it is not 100% in your possession, you are NOT in control of it.
The second you post/send/upload/store/etc across the internet… you lose ALL control. there is no worldwide delete.
If the prospect of having her nude pictures leaked was so unbelievably horrifying, then why did she upload them to an account with an easily guessed password? Shouldn’t she have been a little more concerned?
She should just be honest and fess up to making a mistake. “Welp, I took nude pics and put them behind a crappy password. Now they’re all over the internet because that’s how the internet works. D’oh.”
But then again, acting righteously indignant and cranking the victimhood up to 11 lands her on the cover of Vanity Fair(in a sexy topless photo, which is exactly the kind of pic you want to be in during a nude photo scandal), so…
Don’t post nude photos of yourself or anyone else online! Simple as that. Then there is no way that anyone can get to your photos period! Use a secure password that has no reference to you what so ever.
Maybe it’s a sex crime to post nude photos of yourself too.
If you don’t want anyone to see them, don’t post them.
2 points here:
1) It was a crime and the perpetrators are unknown as of yet so the victims get the bulk of the attention for now. There is nothing wrong with nude photos, private or public, it’s whether the subject approves it’s public distribution or not.
2) Anybody who uses wi-fi, cellular or even plain old wired internet has to be aware that it’s flying thru public space in some way or another. Radio communications can be intercepted, wired internet goes thru all sorts of servers and hubs. These can and will be intercepted. Whether the perpetrator’s target is worthy of decryption or not, if somebody has things that should remain private, there are ways of ensuring that that don’t involve public space.
Note to Ms Lawrence:
1- If you make your income by cultivating a carefully crafted public image you must expect that there are those who will exploit it. That fact may not be fair, but it is still a fact.
2- If you are an actress who can make more money by doing nudity when you have not previously done so, you should carefully protect your image.
3- If you are going to take need photos to share with a significant other you assume a certain amount of risk that they will be seen by others, intentionally or not.
4- If you post pictures to the cloud, they HAVE been intercepted by law enforcement, intel agencies and any number of nefarious outfits. Before your images were on the scandal sheets some cop or dweeb at NSA was enjoying them.
5- The comment about a BF looking at you or porn is not true. Some guys with a GF might look at porn, but not all. Maybe you need to trust your BF a little more.
Nobody deserves to have private bedroom pix splashed all over the net, but you certainly were tempting fate. It is a tough world out there and you got bit by the bad guys.
At the end of the day you are a rich, young woman with a job millions would kill for. Most young actresses have done nudity- and you joined the club for free courtesy of some marginal security. Vanessa Williams lost Miss America because of some modeling shots, but got up and made a nice career as an actress and singer.
Shut up and get on with your life.
No sympathy here.
Like the rest of us she should not have her property stolen, but there has to be some expectation of responsibility on her part.
Do you think she negotiates her own contracts? No! I’ll bet she spends hundreds of thousands of $$$ on lawyers, publicist, trainers, etc,etc.etc. You thinking any one of these leeches could have hired a tech geek for a couple of hours to help her set up or at least help her manage her phone/online activities? She makes tens of millions of dollars and she can’t afford a geek for a couple of hours?
Do you want to bet she spent plenty of $$$ on her home security system?
Apple sells these devices that are advertised as “Just works!”, most secure, safest out there. Most of us here are the first to advertise this out there. And it is generally true, but there are certain limitations that get explained in the fine print.
Celebrities don’t use Android. They use iPhones, because, among other reasons, they are the most secure and they just work. It is a reasonable expectation for an average user that they don’t have to hire an IT consultant in order to set up their iPhone (again, it just works). I have no doubt that not just Jennifer Lawerence, but all other young (and not-so-young) stars of Hollywood are already hiring their IT security consultants to make sure their own images don’t end up leaking as well.
The point is, outside of our little geeky circle, ordinary people believe their password (as simple as it may be) protects them well enough from bad tings. It is NOT their fault that we may have oversold this technology to them as perfectly safe and secure (without making the fine print a part of the main message).