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Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

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Re: Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

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Post by dagw »

blencdr wrote: post #28
sago wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice victim blaming there. So she was too dumb, and she got what was coming? Or even worse, with the "if you don't want people to look at them" hint, perhaps she wanted this. Maybe deep down. Subconsciously or something. That's a particularly classy form of victim blaming that. Doubly so since you created an account on HN specifically to post it.

Nonetheless not putting nude picture of you on the internet is a good advice anyway !

No better advice than saying "never send emails you don't want made available to the world at large".

Re: Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

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Post by runarberg »

icantthinkofone wrote: post #24

This isn't a case she should be making at all. This is a hacking issue, not any "hatred of women" or anything else she's trying to make it out to be. She's embarrassed and trying to deflect it onto something else. Hacking, yes. Hatred of women and rape issues, no. I'm also having problems with the video showing the very pictures she was so embarrassed about. There is some sort of disconnect there I don't have time to…

Yes, this is precisely the case she should be making. Technology, protocols, and vulnerabilities are ethically agnostic, people aren't (short of psychopaths). There are always going to be exploitations of vulnerabilities, and there are always going to be vulnerabilities to be exploited. But sexual harassment is an ethical issue, that civil humans ought to vomit upon. It ought to be as criminal as trafficking. People doing it shouldn't get away with it, they ought to exposed as the psychopaths they are. Unfortunately in the case of revenge port, they aren't. And worse, by tackling this as an "hacking issue", you are keeping it that way.

Re: Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

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Post by mercurial »

fnef wrote: post #23
mercurial wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering that it appears to disproportionally target women, labeling it "misogyny" seems completely fair, whatever underlying mental disorder they suffer from.

> Considering that it appears to disproportionally target women That's a pretty big [citation needed]. All I see is that misogyny is a disproportionally popular news item, which is not at all the same thing. And if it's just an expression of people's mental disorders, that's not hate, and it's not productive to fixing the issue to call it hate when it's not.

> That's a pretty big [citation needed]. All I see is that misogyny is a disproportionally popular news item, which is not at all the same thing.

I have to admit I don't have hard numbers to back my claims, but I think it would be common knowledge if men were routinely called "sluts" and threatened with rape by trolls.

> And if it's just an expression of people's mental disorders, that's not hate, and it's not productive to fixing the issue to call it hate when it's not.

Oh, for that matter, I think most racists and homophobes could use psychological help as well, but it doesn't change their behaviour.

Re: Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

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Post by bryanlarsen »

icantthinkofone wrote: post #24

This isn't a case she should be making at all. This is a hacking issue, not any "hatred of women" or anything else she's trying to make it out to be. She's embarrassed and trying to deflect it onto something else. Hacking, yes. Hatred of women and rape issues, no. I'm also having problems with the video showing the very pictures she was so embarrassed about. There is some sort of disconnect there I don't have time to…

This has very little to do with hacking. Sure there was a hack, but I get the impression she could have dealt with that if it would have ended there. The results would have been the same if it would have been the more stereotypical "revenge porn".

What got to her were the thousands of men who continued to download, share and comment on the pictures.

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Post by leaveyou »

leaveyou wrote: post #10

I made it up to "this were all men" and "this isn't about me, it's about hatred of women" and I remorselessly closed the window as if I stepped into a quarrel that is none of my business. In my universe there is no such thing as "hatred of women" and the psychopathic misogynists are like UFOs. I keep hearing about them but I have never seen any.

The fact that I got downvoted 5 times in less than a minute for saying that in MY "universe" (technically that part of the universe that I'm perceiving directly) there is far less abuse and psychopaths than in other's "universes" says a lot about the quality and usefulness of this conversation. Having a dissonant feeling, opinion or view is penalized like you penalize bad behavior in a trained dog. I clearly don't belong to the HN herd and you can shove karma up your a$$. This is just a hypocritical herd praising diversity and political correctness while (self?)governed by some opinion Nazis. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Re: Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

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Post by icebraining »

facepalm wrote: post #48

Finally nudes that everybody is allowed to share, because it is supposedly for the greater good. (They were already pushed on me on Facebook and G+, and now HN). This made me wonder if open source pornography exists?

http://www.freedomporn.org/

Re: Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

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Post by z3t4 »

Maybe sexual education should include computer security too. Now when many people have relations over the Internet. Just like you learn to protect yourself with condoms, you should also learn to protect yourself with strong passwords and encryption.

Re: Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it [video] [NSFW]

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Post by tomp »

calvin_c wrote: post #42
tomp wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is a hacking issue, not any "hatred of women" or anything else she's trying to make it out to be. Exactly; if anything, it's love and attraction to women; male nudes are much less popular online.

Objectification and viewing private photos without consent ≠ Love and Attraction

I disagree. I view JLaw's photos because I'm a heterosexual man, I wouldn't be interested in viewing a man's nude photos. I didn't look at Kim Kardasian's ass either, because I don't find her attractive.
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