The news wires are hot today with an interesting topic involving stars of Hollywood and Apple. It is a curious case that seems to blame Apple for a breach of its iCloud, which concerns me greatly, but hasn't yet been shown to be the basis of the case. Since I keep almost everything in the iCloud that I feel is important, I don't want to see it hacked anymore than the rest of the Apple world.
But... and there always is one... I was wondering about how those photos got there to begin with. Does your mother know you are taking naked photos of yourself, or allowing someone else to do that?
It is one thing to have them taken by someone activating the camera on an iPad or iPhone, because that is not going to get a hacker very much, unless they keep it on all the time and hope that their target gets naked in sight of that lens. I don't keep my iPhone around when I get out of the shower, but some people have done things that allowed them to be blackmailed. I could probably leave mine on on purpose for the rest of my life and never have anything worth a few cents. How blackmail comes into it is still a mystery.
Now, to the point, are you taking naked photos of yourself, or allowing someone else to do that? Some kids are, spawning the sexting term that finally made the dictionary. I really wish that was possible in my high school days but we didn't even have cell phones then. And, we walked to school, which apparently nobody does anymore. But these are not just young people; these are big stars with publicists, managers, and all kinds of help they don't even ask for. Do they know you are taking naked pictures or allowing someone else to do it? If they did, consider replacing them with someone with some common sense.
In the meantime, this should give pause to anyone, who contemplates taking pictures of themselves naked, for any reason. Yes, there is no reason for cell phone families not to take naked pictures of the baby, but how old does the baby have to be to stop that behavior? I wasn't happy to see naked pictures of me when I was a baby, and I'm sure adults would not like them on the Internet.
This whole process starts with technology doing things we don't like, when we shouldn't be doing them in the first place. Now they are suing Apple.
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