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Countless celebrity nude photo leaks being blamed on supposed iCloud hack

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Re: Countless celebrity nude photo leaks being blamed on supposed iCloud hack

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One can only wonder why celebrities are taking so many nude photos and videos.

If your livelihood depended on a unique, special-purpose engine with a finite lifetime, I bet you would inspect the engine regularly, stay vigilant to changes and needed repairs. It's the same with models and actors.

Of course, there's always the narcissism explanation too.

Re: Countless celebrity nude photo leaks being blamed on supposed iCloud hack

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One can only wonder why celebrities are taking so many nude photos and videos.

Am I missing something? Is it strange?

Well, I mean, some leak things out on purpose, but uploading homemade porn to iCloud is just plain stupid. People don't seem to learn, obviously, but to their support - they don't have to as mobile platforms should be built around privacy. Automatic uploads are nice... until things go wrong. I think out of the box all platforms should allow tagging photos and videos as "private", i.e. not exposing them to sync services, etc. I mean, people do these things and wise platforms are built around real-life scenarios, right? If there's "private browsing" out of the box, why isn't there "private photo/video taking" as well? I think browsing porn sites is much less of an issue than taking private footage and it getting sync to your family iMac, etc. So, I will be happy if all these celebs sue Apple as otherwise they won't improve their OS. This will give Google a signal to improve Android as well.

Re: Countless celebrity nude photo leaks being blamed on supposed iCloud hack

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I missing something? Is it strange?

Well, I mean, some leak things out on purpose, but uploading homemade porn to iCloud is just plain stupid. People don't seem to learn, obviously, but to their support - they don't have to as mobile platforms should be built around privacy. Automatic uploads are nice... until things go wrong. I think out of the box all platforms should allow tagging photos and videos as "private", i.e. not exposing them to sync servic…

Your initial comment made it seem like the 'act of taking nude pictures' was the issue (can't find a better word).