You are continuing to put focus on the victim's responsibility, not the perpetrator's.
Until you can come to terms with this, you and I are just going to go round in circles.
I'd think some asshole broke my window.
And some other asshole would think it served you right for leaving your car out on the street.
If everyone thought that using the internet with secure sites and such was going to burn them just like fire as you say, then no one would do online banking, send their taxes to the IRS via the internet, or even email anything to anyone.
If someone hacked her computer and/or accounts and took her tax information (if she used tax software) that she saved to her computer and transmitted over the internet, or if she banks online like many of us do, and somebody took that information. It would be a surprise to many people and it would be criminal behavior by the person that did that, and not just the nature of the beast of being rich and famous.
What I honestly don't understand is why someone would want to look at the photos. I mean, you can easily just go on the internet and look at photos and videos of women consenting to have their sexual activities known. Why not just do that? Looking that those photos is just creepy.
And some other asshole would think it served you right for leaving your car out on the street.
Well I guess that just gets right back to my comment about the expectation of privacy and taking reasonable steps to preserve that privacy.
Precisely!!
The questions are:
1) do people who put information on the internet have a reasonable expectation of privacy even though they know that it's possible for that information to be stolen?
2) Is putting that info in a place with security measure constitute "reasonable steps"?
What I see is a lot of people claiming that "everyone knows" that "anything you put on the internet can be accessed" (as if that were somehow different from something you keep in your home, or the car you park on the street (or you garage))
The fact is, nothing is absolutely secure. Does that mean nobody should ever do anything that might embarrass them? That would probaly be a good idea, but not a very realistic one.
OK.
If I park my car on the street in my neighborhood I would figure it would be pretty safe. I live in a good neighborhood and haven't even heard of a break in in the 12 years I've been there. However, if every week another car was being broken into I'd park in the garage. If someone doesn't know that the internet isn't particularly secure they have been living in a hole for way too long.
When was the last time nude pictures were stolen off of Apple's cloud?
I know, I know! "It's the Internet!" It happens regularly on the internet.
But the internet is a pretty big space. Your neighborhood?.....not so much.
Basically, I think people are bending over backwards as if this were different than any other theft because "It's the internet!!" Maybe I'm a bit jaded, but I think the internet is a lot like every other space.....creeps abound!
The average person does not live their lives in the public domain. AND you shouldn't do online banking if you think there is no chance of your private info getting out. It is not near 100% secure. If you haven't heard this many times by now, you're living under a rock somewhere.
ANYTHING you post online can be intercepted. There is no "private" and what you post persists. Welcome to the Worldwide Web 101A. It never was and the system wasn't designed for it, it was designed to share everything. You do know why the web was developed in the first place right? It didn't become commercial until later.
Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photo Leak Isn't A 'Scandal.' It's A Sex Crime.
Scandal or Crime?
Owner of the photographs responsible or leaker responsible?
Personally I can't believe the number of people that claim it's the owner of the photographs fault for taking them in the 1st place. They have a right to privacy.
Yeah, I can't believe it either. People just kinda lose their common sense when anything to do with sex/women is involved. What if these were personal financial documents that were stolen? You think people would be saying it was their own fault for keeping that on their computers?? Heck no! It is a crime. But a woman with sexuality is not deserving of any respect, protection, or privacy apparently :doh
It's scandal for the public and a crime for the courts.Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photo Leak Isn't A 'Scandal.' It's A Sex Crime.
Scandal or Crime?
Owner of the photographs responsible or leaker responsible?
Personally I can't believe the number of people that claim it's the owner of the photographs fault for taking them in the 1st place. They have a right to privacy.
Been known to bring down governments.Yeah, I can't believe it either. People just kinda lose their common sense when anything to do with sex/women is involved. What if these were personal financial documents that were stolen? You think people would be saying it was their own fault for keeping that on their computers?? Heck no! It is a crime. But a woman with sexuality is not deserving of any respect, protection, or privacy apparently :doh
It's scary that some people think this way. If they hadn't committed a crime his car would not have been stolen.
Speaking strictly in terms of laws being broken, the leaker would be responsible for both breaking into iCloud and for any legal privacy violations.
However, the logical trail of responsibility is longer, in order of precedence:
1. The leaker is foremost responsible for the leak
2. Apple is responsible for allowing the security breach
3. Lawrence is responsible for putting pictures on the internet of a sensitive nature
4. Lawrence is responsible for having the pictures taken
That being said, #4 is pretty inconsequential. I'm certainly not suggesting she shouldn't have had the pictures taken, but obviously they couldn't have been leaked if they'd never been taken... so in a logical paper trail, it must be mentioned for completeness sake.
#3 is what I'd scold her over. As I would scold anyone who puts anything on the internet they consider to be private. Even if Apple (or whatever other company) ensures your privacy, you shouldn't trust them. Obviously they can't guarantee with absolute certainty that what they store will remain private. No internet company can. If their machines are on the net, the possibility exists that hackers can make it through. Or the tl;dr version: assume anything you upload or post will be seen by the world. Never trust the middlemen. This is also true when talking on the phone and texting.
Assuming she was aware that her photos were being stored by Apple I'd tend to agree though I also believe companies who offer storage on their servers have a responsibility to insure the security of your data to the point where there should be legal liability if they don't
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