Celeb photos leak; fingers point at Apple

[Mike Johnson]

Many nude photos of celebrities have been leaked in the last couple days. Some of the celebrities say they're fake while others have said the photos -- mostly iPhone selfies -- are authentic but stolen.

People are claiming a weakness in iCloud security may be to blame.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/01/t...0Publisher&awesm=tnw.to_h4sgA&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=This%20could%20be%20the%20Apple%20iCloud%20flaw%20that%20led%20to%20celebrity%20photos%20being%20leaked

[testcase]

:useless:

[space-time]

Never trust the cloud

[Ken Sp.]

There is some doubt that it was iCloud-since videos are not on the PhotoStream. Time will tell
http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/31/countless-...loud-hack/

[Mike Johnson]

As a shareholder, I sure hope it’s not Apple. Videos do get backed up to iCloud accounts, so I don’t take any comfort from that.

One celeb -- it’s weird these celebrities are in the news and I haven’t heard of 3/4 of them -- made a big point of saying she uses Android. She also insists the photos are fake and points out a couple of moles on her chest that are missing from the purported photos of her. So no comfort there.

I do take comfort in that people see evidence that Dropbox was involved, but only to the extent that it’s not Apple. I use Dropbox, and I’d like it to be secure from brute force attacks.

[decay]

apparently this has been dubbed "The Fappening"

oh geez. it's freakin nude photos. are we still that obsessed with nudity?

[Mike Johnson]

testcase wrote:
:useless:

Happy now?

[graylocks]

decay wrote:
oh geez. it's freakin nude photos. are we still that obsessed with nudity?

i guess what i find amazing is that people have pictures of themselves and others naked on their phone. granted, i don't get out much, but it has never occurred to me to take a nude picture of anyone much less with my phone. perhaps we should take a forum poll on this to measure how common this is.

[WHiiP]

I'll stipulate that it's fairly common, your honor!

[vision63]

graylocks wrote:
[quote=decay]
oh geez. it's freakin nude photos. are we still that obsessed with nudity?

i guess what i find amazing is that people have pictures of themselves and others naked on their phone. granted, i don't get out much, but it has never occurred to me to take a nude picture of anyone much less with my phone.
That's cuz we ain't hooked up. Oh btw, I just finished a bag of delicious Cafe Verona. I loves that coffee.