Hacked Celebrity Photos

[IanMorewood]

According to the thing on c4 about police custody downloading a child porn file is seen as making.

[Jasandjules]

It is wrong to put up pictures that people have taken and thought were private IMHO.

[Tiggsy]

IanMorewood said:

According to the thing on c4 about police custody downloading a child porn file is seen as making.

Hence all the people that get done for "making child sex images" - they are not making them in the sense we would assume, they are "just" downloading.

[BlackLabel]

"Pippa Middleton’s iCloud account has been hacked, it has emerged.

It is believed a number of personal photos of the Duchess of Cambridge's sister have been accessed in the unlawful hack."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pippa-mid...

[hornetrider]

Is it just me? I won't contemplate ever using any type of cloud service for storage of photos. Any kind of hack and they're gone.

[Pommygranite]

hornetrider said:

Is it just me? I won't contemplate ever using any type of cloud service for storage of photos. Any kind of hack and they're gone.

I think your private collection of dick pics is safe

[Some Gump]

Thank you bumping this thread. I'd not cought it before, so was unaware that Mat77 was so unimpressed with her out of hunger games' physique.

[Silverbullet767]

Hmmm, she does have a cracking arse.

[bitchstewie]

hornetrider said:

Is it just me? I won't contemplate ever using any type of cloud service for storage of photos. Any kind of hack and they're gone.

Keep in mind the media use the word "hack" when it could simply be that her password is "Pippa".

People are usually the weak link in these things.

[Randy Winkman]

BlackLabel said:

"Pippa Middleton’s iCloud account has been hacked, it has emerged.

It is believed a number of personal photos of the Duchess of Cambridge's sister have been accessed in the unlawful hack."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pippa-mid...

A sort of "technical" question .... how do you find a thread from 2 years ago?

[Thankyou4calling]

Who cares?

[AndrewEH1]

bhstewie said:

Keep in mind the media use the word "hack" when it could simply be that her password is "Pippa".

People are usually the weak link in these things.

From what I read there was a web forum deep in the internet where users would pass around passwords to celeb iCloud accounts, the was happened for sometime until one user decided to leak everything.

[bitchstewie]

AndrewEH1 said:

bhstewie said:

Keep in mind the media use the word "hack" when it could simply be that her password is "Pippa".

People are usually the weak link in these things.

From what I read there was a web forum deep in the internet where users would pass around passwords to celeb iCloud accounts, the was happened for sometime until one user decided to leak everything.

There are lots of possibilities. Many people just don't get security when it comes to stuff like this.

Give them a box of jewels and they'll know they need to go and buy a good safe.

Give them a bunch of photos of god only knows what and they'll protect it with their dogs name as the password and they'll probably use that same password for every service they use so that like dominos when one goes they all go.

We've done security sessions at work where the approach has been to get people to think about their personal IT security because once they get that right they'll apply it at work and the number of people who coughed to have no PIN at all on their mobile phone shocked me.

I'm being the pedantic IT sod I know but it's simply that they haven't been "hacked" they've been daft be it from ignorance or laziness.

[durbster]

Yep, the word hacked these days usually means "guessed their crappy password".

People are the weak link but the services themselves are finding ways around that, with fingerprint recognition and 2-step verification. That gives better security without compromising the convenience that people are unwilling to give up.

Of course this still requires the user to spend 2 minutes setting those things up...

[Garvin]

hornetrider said:

Is it just me? I won't contemplate ever using any type of cloud service for storage of photos. Any kind of hack and they're gone.

It's not just you. I cease to be amazed at the number of people who store their entire personal electronic information on some 'cloud' they know not where with a level of security they have not an inkling about! I wouldn't be surprised if they stored their banking details and passwords there also.

[durbster]

Garvin said:

It's not just you. I cease to be amazed at the number of people who store their entire personal electronic information on some 'cloud' they know not where with a level of security they have not an inkling about! I wouldn't be surprised if they stored their banking details and passwords there also.

Where did people keep their photos before? In a box under the stairs, in the loft?

[Pesty]

Garvin said:

hornetrider said:

Is it just me? I won't contemplate ever using any type of cloud service for storage of photos. Any kind of hack and they're gone.

It's not just you. I cease to be amazed at the number of people who store their entire personal electronic information on some 'cloud' they know not where with a level of security they have not an inkling about! I wouldn't be surprised if they stored their banking details and passwords there also.

What sort of pictures are you taking that this becomes an issue ?

[Garvin]

durbster said:

Garvin said:

It's not just you. I cease to be amazed at the number of people who store their entire personal electronic information on some 'cloud' they know not where with a level of security they have not an inkling about! I wouldn't be surprised if they stored their banking details and passwords there also.

Where did people keep their photos before? In a box under the stairs, in the loft?

Not sure what you are getting at? At least they were in the security of your own home with a level of security you yourself implemented and, hopefully, understood. Cyber criminals now find a way through the 'back door' of the cloud and they can have access to literally hundreds of thousands of individual's information to sift through at leisure from the comfort of their arm chairs. Much easier than trawling the streets trying to physically break into properties without really knowing what to look for or where to look for it.

[Murph7355]

Pesty said:

What sort of pictures are you taking that this becomes an issue ?

Perhaps start with personal family photos? Do you have kids etc?

Not that it really matters. People generally seem to have this belief that the "cloud" is some sort of haven for all their stuff. As the poster you replied to noted, most people have zero clue where the stuff actually gets stored, what protections are around it (not just security but also resilience etc) and what happens if it all goes wrong.

(An awful lot of "professionals" don't to be fair).

With places like Yahoo and Sony, and myriad others, getting hacked, it really is time for people to wake up IMO. And at least be aware of the risks against the benefits.

[Garvin]

Pesty said:

Garvin said:

hornetrider said:

Is it just me? I won't contemplate ever using any type of cloud service for storage of photos. Any kind of hack and they're gone.

It's not just you. I cease to be amazed at the number of people who store their entire personal electronic information on some 'cloud' they know not where with a level of security they have not an inkling about! I wouldn't be surprised if they stored their banking details and passwords there also.

What sort of pictures are you taking that this becomes an issue ?

Me, I'm not taking or storing any pictures that would be an issue. Why have you limited the risk to pictures?