"Victim Blaming" and Leaked pictures - Page 3

On September 03 2014 20:28 Battleaxe wrote:


So if Apple actually admitted a security flaw you wouldn't be ok with the use of 'confirmed' either? Look at the apple article they refer you to about password, says right there they consider a 'strong' password to contain at least one capital letter, number, no repeating characters, and not your username. The fact it doesn't even mention using a symbol but would be considered a 'strong' password in my opinion is a statement about how little Apple feels its userbase understands about security. It is certainly plausible many of these celebs used easy passwords.

If this article that was linked off the zdnet article earlier in the blog is any indication, this seemed pretty easy using google to get some personal info and some software already available: http://blog.crackpassword.com/2013/02/norwegian-teenagers-hacking-icloud-accounts/

Also haven't seen anything providing details regarding how long it took the hacker to obtain the information. They could have been obtaining credentials for months as people generally don't change their pw often, then grab everything at once. Obviously it raised the alarms but they probably got away with more data then picking people off one by one.

On September 05 2014 01:04 Djzapz wrote:
The sheer amount of hypocrisy that surrounds this whole ordeal is absolutely INSANE. You have all these news sources all up in arms about the leak of nudie pics and a bunch of people taking various philosophical and utopian and sometimes just contrary positions with these little bullshit moralizing stances that serve no purpose but people like to look down upon others, since they're so much better than the rest of us.

I could go on and on about the various little groups that have formed up against this, from the feminists who are using this to declare that they're still under attack to fucking Vice who are declaring that this represents a new kind of perverts. Yeah, leaked nudies are fucking new, apparently.

But by far the biggest hypocrites and funnily enough the people who have generated opinions for most of you to borrow and treat as your own opinions are the god damn media themselves. Every single outlet is now babbling about how the privacy of these poor little helpless, precious little flowers has been infringed upon, when the entire subculture (or more realistically, the entire culture) promoting obsession over these celebrities is generated by those news channels. The same people who pay heaps of money to get exclusive nip slips and cooch shots on famous women coming out of cars are the people who are now telling me that my curiosity makes me a bad person at best, and some form of rapist at worst (like holy shit...). Yet I never paid tens of thousands of dollars to get the rights to publish Britney Spear's vagina to the entire world.

The Huffington Post is perhaps the funniest example of a massive double standard that some brands of feminist don't seem to concern themselves with. They've posted a shitload of articles about "The Fappening" bringing immense and generalized awareness to the existence of the photos, declaring that the people who are responsible for them are essentially subhuman monsters. And yet what happens when men's pics are leaked, you think?

Anthony Weiner's pics. PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS!!!! They destroyed the man because it's fun to do and it generates views. I saw this man's bulge on my screen though I never asked for it. I never saw Jlaw's leaked pics on any news website though.

What did the Huffington Post do when Greg Oden's naked pictures surged? They didn't just report about it, they had a POLL for the readers to pass judgement on Greg's big black dick. And one of the options in the poll allowed THP's very refined and non-sexist readers to suggest that Greg should "pursue a different line of work", suggesting that this black dude should put his dick to work instead of playing basketball.

What if THP wrote an article judging JLaw tits, asking the readers "are those tits just alright or should she leave acting and do porn?". Would that be okay? Would suggesting that JLaw redirect her career toward something more tits-orientated qualify as good fun and a funny joke?



As for the "blaming the victim" thing, people ought to be cautious because no matter what, there are people to get you. It's unavoidable and it's true for all facets of life, people are fucking dicks and I hope that Jennifer Lawrence and the other people who were hit by this will be fine. That's not blaming the victim, it's being realistic. There are things to say about shitty services and bad security on websites, and weird systems that don't let you delete your pictures. There are things to say about society and how we can try to prevent people from being shitty. But let's be real, in today's world, you can't get around it, your privacy is something that you actively need to protect because of the new technologies. It's the new way of things. We can imagine an utopia wherein people are respectful to each other, and we can imagine riding fucking unicorns to Mars to have lunch with Duke Fucking Wayne. Good day.