Celebrity Nude Leak & Apple

[jafingi]

Here you go:

This is all Apples' fault, I can see apple $ reserve dwindling down

Also, I can't believe MR hasn't said anything about this yet. THis is MAJOR apple news since icloud was easily hacked since forever it appears. If MR really is an open source of informing all things apple, they should have already posted about this. They don't have to post the pictures of course, jut report on the news and show the findmyiphone icon as a picture for the post.

Maybe because it (maybe) has nothing to do with Apple? There is no official news that iCloud was hacked. Just the news that came up with that, since someone uploaded a tool to bruteforce iCloud passwords.

Guess what.. Everything can be bruteforced.

But if the celebs' accounts were bruteforced, the cracker would have:

1. To know the celebs' iCloud e-mail address
2. They would have been using a very weak password, since bruteforcing (especially on a website, that uses > 300ms to load) takes a VERY long time. Just trying the most 500 popular passwords would take a long time.

If the celebs' passwords were indeed bruteforced, the cracker would NOT have had access to Apple's servers. But I do agree that Apple should have made a bruteforce lock, e.g. made a delay on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... seconds when entering a wrong password, and ban for 15 minutes after XX attempts.

I just think the media is quick to blame Apple. It's a good story, with a great headline. And we all know what the news websites earn their money on: people clicking their links.

I also find it strange, that about 40% of the photos that shows a phone (e.g. picture taken in mirror) is not an iPhone. Also, the timing seems to be perfect, like someone is trying to blame Apple on purpose.

If Apple has any responsibility, we should know in a week. They have to notify users if there was a breach. But I really don't think to. It's all hot air.

 

[coolbreeze]

I also find it strange, that about 40% of the photos that shows a phone (e.g. picture taken in mirror) is not an iPhone. Also, the timing seems to be perfect, like someone is trying to blame Apple on purpose.

This point cannot be more irrelevant. Are you seriously suggesting photos on iCloud can only be taken with an iPhone? Protip: you can store anything ~in the cloud~

 

[Renzatic]

I just think the media is quick to blame Apple. It's a good story, with a great headline. And we all know what the news websites earn their money on: people clicking their links.

I feel fairly confident in saying that Apple blaming is far from being the biggest draw of these stories, Jaf.

 

[ardent73]

Hey all. Here is a great way that is 100% fool proof for making sure your naked photos don't get into the wrong hands. It always works.

Don't take naked photos.

It is quite simple. If you have photos taken of you digitally, they will leak.

Back in the dark ages (film), people didn't take photos of themselves naked. People didn't need to do it then, why do they now?

What planet are you from? There were nude photos taken the same week that photography was invented. I've seen late 1800's p0rn, it really does exist. Seriously, do you think babies come from the stork or are they beamed down from the mothership?

 

[jeremysteele]

What planet are you from? There were nude photos taken the same week that photography was invented. I've seen late 1800's p0rn, it really does exist. Seriously, do you think babies come from the stork or are they beamed down from the mothership?

So the fact porn stars do it makes it alright for everyone I guess.

 

[jafingi]

This point cannot be more irrelevant. Are you seriously suggesting photos on iCloud can only be taken with an iPhone? Protip: you can store anything ~in the cloud~

How do you store other photos on your iCloud which was taking with a camera or Android/Windows phone? Other than sending it to your iPhone and save it to your Photo Stream?

It will be easier when iCloud Drive is released, so you can just drag&drop stuff to it. But right now, I can't see an easy way to store your photos on iCloud without an iPad or iPhone.

 

[coolbreeze]

I feel fairly confident in saying that Apple blaming is far from being the biggest draw of these stories, Jaf.

You would be semi-correct as Apple's iCloud security was compromised. But yeah, naked celebs is a draw as well...along with normal people. Hackers/rippers get content from insecure sources. How to you think so many amateur nudes appear online? Anywhoo-

I can't wait to hear the spin. Face it, Apple dropped the ball here and millions upon millions should be very concerned. Not good.

Again, for the soccer moms and pre-teens. Don't store stuff in the cloud that you don't want the world to see. Yes, real time backing up of every second of your life is neat and all, as long as you are aware of the risks.

 

[Renzatic]

You would be semi-correct as Apple's iCloud security was compromised. But yeah, naked celebs is a draw as well...along with normal people. Hackers/rippers get content from insecure sources. How to you think so many amateur nudes appear online? Anywhoo-

I can't wait to hear the spin. Face it, Apple dropped the ball here and millions upon millions should be very concerned. Not good.

I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened until now. Not that I'm saying Apple's lax or incompetent. Far from it. Rather, I'm saying there's absolutely no such thing as a 100% secure service on the internet. If someone wants to hack something, it's only a matter of time and pressure before they succeed at it.

We should never expect our favorite companies to keep our data secure at all times. What we should do is realize they'll never truly be able to, and to act accordingly.

 

[Carlanga]

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Nice spin
1) There was an issue patched it.
2) These are pics, most pics are sent to a second party. Only one of them needs an iOS/Mac
3) iCloud was not the only method the hackers used, this has been shown also.
4) The pics have been on sale for weeks, maybe months
5) Someone paid for a batch and tried to resale them.
5) Brute-force attacks should be denied by the system, the system didn't deny after x amount of times, so yes its apples' fault.
6) I like apple and its tech, but one has to realize mistakes were made instead of living in dream land where apple has secured things. FYI apple has less viruses not because OSX is more secure.

 

[coolbreeze]

How do you store other photos on your iCloud which was taking with a camera or Android/Windows phone? Other than sending it to your iPhone and save it to your Photo Stream?

It will be easier when iCloud Drive is released, so you can just drag&drop stuff to it. But right now, I can't see an easy way to store your photos on iCloud without an iPad or iPhone.

I knew this was coming. Yes, photostream contains iDevice photos, but iCloud as a whole contains anything you want to upload.

That's how.

 

[Apple fanboy]

What planet are you from? There were nude photos taken the same week that photography was invented. I've seen late 1800's p0rn, it really does exist. Seriously, do you think babies come from the stork or are they beamed down from the mothership?

Would you take a photo of yourself naked and hand it over to the staff at snappy snaps to develop? No. Why not? Because you would be worried what they might say or think.
However now people have digital photography they think its safe to take pictures of their private parts and store them on their iPhones etc.
Well guess what? Nothing digital is 100% safe.
If you don't realise this you are kidding yourself.
Also there was no porn taken the week photography was invented. Yes there was porn as you call it in the early days.
I'm a father of a teenager, so more than aware where babies come from thanks.

 

[Renzatic]

Would you take a photo of yourself naked and hand it over to the staff at snappy snaps to develop? No. Why not? Because you would be worried what they might say or think.

You know, I'm pretty sure discreet naked pics were the reason Polaroids were invented.

 

[ssdeg7]

Guessing weak passwords isn't hacking, use 1Password

 

[Apple fanboy]

You know, I'm pretty sure discreet naked pics were the reason Polaroids were invented.

Maybe not the reason, but certainly one of the applications.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Celebrities do love a sex tape or a nude pic don't they? lol... I don't think, in fact I am pretty sure my wife and myself have no naked pictures on our iCloud storage. Boring or sensible I have to ask? I feel this is more of a wake up call than too much of an issue for Apple. Nothing is unhackable in this world.

 

[goke]

not just icloud

 

[kolax]

In other news, NSA agents were disappointed to see that the leaked photos are ones they'd already seen.

 

[Meister]

A massive leak of nude and risque photos appearing to be of huge stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, and Kate Upton leaked online today, first appearing on the /b/ thread on 4chan.

Who?

 

[goke]

forgot about what you read on the blogs and new sites
straight from the source

 

[bushido]

Who?

you dont know who Jennifer Lawrence is?

 

[Meister]

you dont know who Jennifer Lawrence is?

I googled it. She's the kid from that hunger games show.
Never heard any of those names before. Wouldn't consider those kids really famous.

Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson and Madonna are/were celebrities.

 

[BittenApple]

I googled it. She's the kid from that hunger games show.
Never heard any of those names before. Wouldn't consider those kids really famous.

Andy Warhol and Michael Jackson were celebrities.

Yea, 30 and 40 years ago.

 

[Meister]

Yea, 30 and 40 years ago.

Ok, Daniel Day Lewis or Jennifer Aniston then. You get my point.
Or Justin Bieber for the really young ones. I would say he is very famous.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Ok, Daniel Day Lewis or Jennifer Aniston then. You get my point.
Or Justin Bieber for the really young ones. I would say he is very famous.

nobody wants to see naked photos of Justin Bieber!

 

[aristobrat]

I googled it. She's the kid from that hunger games show.
Never heard any of those names before. Wouldn't consider those kids really famous.

Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson and Madonna are/were celebrities.

Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson and Madonna all had "beginning" phases of their celebrity too, where older folks dismissed them, much like you're doing to these "kids".