‘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.
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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
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The bimbo has spoken: “It’s my body and it should be my choice.”
I’ll pass of the infantile comments of the article and instead relay a story that this whole brouhaha reminds me of.
Years ago in a city I found out that there was a bi-law making it illegal to leave one’s car unlocked as it might entice the criminal element.
I’ve ran into software situations where certain parameters were required to be met for a password, i.e. the password had to be a certain length of characters and the password had to be a combination of letters and numbers.
MDN’s take is right on: “Use two-step verification for Apple ID to keep your personal information as secure as possible.”
That onus is on the user for most cases. I see at some point in the future legislation requiring software developers to only accept passwords that meet certain requirements of length and a mix of alphanumerical characters.
Right now it’s your password and your choice. Twit teases like Jennifer Lawrence and others may usher in a new age where “It’s your password, but it’s not your choice.”
Look, It’s pretty simple. The photo’s were hers. She was the photographer and the images can’t be used without her agreement.
Someone stole the photo’s from her. There are folks who placed them on the internet and are profiting from them. That’s intellectual property theft. (Samsung anyone?)
There are companies who are providing links to the stolen property and profiting from providing those links, thus profiting by providing access to stolen property. (With a mantra to “Do no evil” anyone?)
You know most of all this crap goes away if we change the internet so people can’t hide in the shadows. Change the technology so that you leave foot prints and those footprints are indelible proof about who you are and what you did.
Look at how many crimes are solved today because of the plethora of cheap digital cameras. Why should the internet remain in the dark where sub-human garbage lurks to prey on the innocent (ok and stupid)
SEX CRIME!! I wonder how a woman who was actually assaulted feels when she reads that a privilege celebrity who was the victim of a computer hacker feels that she was the victim of a sex crime.
Wonder no more Herby. She feels empathy. The acid feeling of horror that dredges out your guts operates the same way whether it happened to me or to my sister or to a ‘privileged celebrity’ whose privilege and celebrity collapsed into a yawning chasm of human vulnerability. Empathy. Look it up.
Having seen some of these photos, I don’t think she has anything to apologize for, feel embarassed about, or have reason to be ridiculed for. My only surprise was the sheer volume of the photos.
This was clearly theft and borders on stalking. Hopefully her property will be better protected from now on.
I (still) think the problem is not keeping up with the technology you’re using. Your photos can end up ‘in the cloud’ without you realizing, if you aren’t familiar with the technology. To go from my old 35mm Nikon to my current digital camera is more than just a progressional step: it’s a vast leap over a deep chasm. I think people don’t see it that way – a camera is a camera, pictures are pictures. If you embrace the technology, you need to at least understand it.