Help me understand human nature

[Hauldren Collider]

OK I have two questions:
1. How come Apple can't figure out how to secure what is essentially a goddamn FTP server? This isn't hard.
2. Why do people take compromising photos of themselves when they don't want anyone else to see them, and then put them online, again in the hopes that they will be viewed by no one?

Context: Apple iCloud got hacked. Nude photos from what appears to be dozens of celebrities have been leaked, including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. (Merry Christmas babe thread viewers)

Whoever did this is a cretin, and I do feel sorry for the celebrities, but I gotta say there's a little cosmic justice going on here. If you absolutely must take nude photos of your self, why the **** would you back them up online? Are you afraid you'll never have an opportunity to take more if you lose them?

Not linking because I'm pretty sure that's against the rules.

[onodera]

McKayla is also not amused. Most people have no idea what iCloud is when they click "yes".

[Aeson]

I put all the photos of my naked body on Apolyton's server just to spite anyone who ever hacks it. Just in case they never bother looking at the image files, I've converted them all to ASCII art and given the files suggestive names like passwords.txt

[N35t0r]

OK I have two questions:
1. How come Apple can't figure out how to secure what is essentially a goddamn FTP server? This isn't hard.

While I'm not particularly knowledgable in the field of internet security, I'd hazard that the poeple in charge of making the decision aren't either.

2. Why do people take compromising photos of themselves when they don't want anyone else to see them, and then put them online, again in the hopes that they will be viewed by no one?

What Onodera said. Most people have no idea, at best they think that having them in 'the cloud' is 'safer' in case their phones get stolen/lost/whatnot. I'd also hazard they didn't actually make the decition to put these particular picures online, and rather that they do it for all pictures by default, and aren't very knowledgable about it all.

Context: Apple iCloud got hacked. Nude photos from what appears to be dozens of celebrities have been leaked, including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. (Merry Christmas babe thread viewers)

Whoever did this is a cretin, and I do feel sorry for the celebrities, but I gotta say there's a little cosmic justice going on here. If you absolutely must take nude photos of your self, why the **** would you back them up online? Are you afraid you'll never have an opportunity to take more if you lose them?

Not linking because I'm pretty sure that's against the rules.

4chan

[self biased]

Reddit is calling it "the fappening"

[Kidlicious]

I love the idea of hot stars taking pictures if themselves just for themselves to look at.

[Hauldren Collider]

I don't really get the point of taking the pictures in the first place. I've never felt the slightest desire to posses naked pictures of myself.

[N35t0r]

Because you're ugly :wiglaf:

[Dr Strangelove]

2. Why do people take compromising photos of themselves when they don't want anyone else to see them, and then put them online, again in the hopes that they will be viewed by no one?

Context: Apple iCloud got hacked. Nude photos from what appears to be dozens of celebrities have been leaked, including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. (Merry Christmas babe thread viewers)

Whoever did this is a cretin, and I do feel sorry for the celebrities, but I gotta say there's a little cosmic justice going on here. If you absolutely must take nude photos of your self, why the **** would you back them up online? Are you afraid you'll never have an opportunity to take more if you lose them?

Not linking because I'm pretty sure that's against the rules.

You fail to undrestand how publicity works. The hacker just provided them with free publicity worth millions of dollars. For all we know they or their agents are the hackers.

[onodera]

Why would anyone get excited about Kate Upton? Are there so many BBW lovers in the US?

[DaShi]

I don't really get the point of taking the pictures in the first place. I've never felt the slightest desire to posses naked pictures of myself.

People need to know.

[regexcellent]

It's to send them to their boyfriends most likely.

[notyoueither]

Vanity and the knowledge that beauty is fleeting in the eyes of most people.

[onodera]

Teresa Palmer has Buscemi eyes. I guess this leak will help many girls understand that most celebrities look so good because they're made up and photoshopped, not because they're superior to them.

[Sava]

Seems like a PR stunt.