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Yishai Schwartz / September 2, 2014
The Nude Celebrity Photo Theft Should Scare You More Than the NSA Does
Over Labor Day weekend, a trove of nude celebrity photos apparently stolen from Apple's iCloud—the company denies it was hacked, per se—spread across the internet, prompting titillation, denials, legal threats, and the now-familiar lament that nothing in life is private anymore. And on Tuesday, in ACLU v Clapper , three judges heard arguments in the first appellate-level challenge to the National Security Agency’s domestic metadata collection program.
To some hardcore privacy activists, there's not much daylight between these two stories—the only difference being that in one instance, the Peeping Tom also happens to be your Uncle Sam. But that would conflate the distinction between content and data, and thereby miss that the real danger to contemporary privacy isn’t government intrusion at all: It’s the weaknesses of private corporations.
The theft and publication of these actresses’ private photos are crimes. But these actions were also, to quote statements released by the victims, “outrageous” and “flagrant” violations of privacy. These photos were taken in private and stored in contexts that the actresses understood as safe and personal. When Mary E. Winstead emphasized that her photos were taken in her own home, it was clear that she didn’t view her decision to store them in the cloud (even temporarily) as detracting from the expectation of security and privacy we all rightly associate with our residences. If a woman’s home is her castle, so too, it seems, is her iCloud account. And a company's failure to protect such an account is not very different than the bank that allows its safe deposit boxes to be raided.
But the cloud is not quite our home, nor is it precisely analogous to a bank’s safe deposit box. No outside power enjoys unrestricted access to your home, and banks cannot go through your safe willy-nilly. But corporations like Google and Apple take a different approach. They don’t quite allow employees unrestricted access to your emails, phones, and documents, but they do frequently use computer programs to mine these materials for valuable metadata. This is, of course, the whole reason why private corporations provide cloud space at low cost or no cost at all. There still is a price; you just pay in personal information rather than cash. The cloud thus becomes a less private place; a home, perhaps, where the landlord has been given permission to peer through the window—but only while wearing special glasses that reveal only rough shapes and blurry outlines.
For the photos of Winstead, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton et al, this distinction makes little difference. Not only was the person peeking through the window unauthorized, but he did so without the foggy glasses and published the images to a worldwide audience. It doesn’t matter what rights Apple might have to mine our accounts in a general sort of way. The hacking of those accounts and publication of these photos is both theft and a perverted form of pornographic abuse. But the ways in which corporations interact with our data does have major implications for distinguishing between the grotesque invasion of these women’s privacy and what NSA does as part of its intelligence efforts. That’s because of a concept called the “third party doctrine” and a famous 1979 case, Smith v. Maryland .
In Smith , the Supreme Court allowed local police to install a pen register at a phone company’s central office in order to determine, without a warrant, the numbers dialed by a suspect. Because records of these numbers is precisely the sort of thing telephone companies already hold and process, the Court ruled that these records weren’t “private” at all and didn’t require a warrant. Smith’s conviction was allowed to stand, becoming a central pillar of Fourth Amendment law, and the precedent is now one of the primary bases for NSA’s widespread collection of telephony metadata. If local police investigating a robbery can collect phone records without a warrant, surely our intelligence apparatus can do the same in interests of national security. Photos sitting in your bedroom are private; records to which your local Verizon clerk has easy access are not.
In today’s oral arguments before the 2 nd Circuit, the lawyer for the Obama administration once again hammered home this difference between closely-held content and more general information already turned over to third parties. But the ACLU challenger emphasized the ways in which the sheer bulk and indefinite scope of the metadata collected by NSA made the distinction between the content and metadata irrelevant. If, in an age of big data, Target can predict a woman’s pregnancy earlier than her father, is collecting information on all phone calls meaningfully different than listening to the calls themselves?
The ACLU portrays a future where the government sweeps up enough data to piece together our most intimate secrets. Federal agents might never have legal access to our nude photos, but our medical conditions, IQ’s, and romantic lives are fast becoming an open book. All it would take would be another Nixon or Hoover to put this data to dastardly uses. Better to leave this data in the hands of the private sector, argue the privacy advocates. And already, the Obama administration seems to be going along, pushing to replace the government’s collection of telephony metadata with a mandate to phone companies to maintain their own extensive records.
But as this week’s photos scandal demonstrates, the threat to privacy comes from the private sector as much as from the government. Is another Nixon, and particularly one powerful enough to overcome layers of post-Watergate oversight and compliance mechanisms, really more likely than an iCloud or Gmail hacker? When corporations cannot even be relied upon to secure our content, it seems naïve to automatically entrust our privacy to the private sector rather than the government. And it seems odd to allow Verizon commercial access to the same information that we deny the NSA for the purpose of counterterrorism.
In the modern era, it is the large corporations that pose the greatest threat to privacy. Google, Amazon, and Facebook may know things about us that we have never written in an email or stored in a file. We may never even know what is included in the mosaics of our lives that corporations are already weaving. With the government, we can take comfort that layers of bureaucracy, minimization procedures, and oversight prevent tyranny and mitigates the damage from leaks. But with private corporations, we have no such assurances.



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Earlier this week, a post started on 4chan claimed a wealth of celebrity nudes--a large cache in possession of a hacker who'd gained access to several celebrities' alleged personal photos—would leak on Sunday. Well, Sunday's here, the supposed leak has begun, and the internet is reacting accordingly.

The list of celebrities whose nudes are supposedly in this cache includes Jennifer Lawrence , Avril Lavigne, Kate Upton, Lea Michele, and McKayla Maroney, and several of them—the photos, not the celebs—have begun to show up on various message boards across the internet.
It's still unclear how the photographs ended up online, but an anonymous user began posting the images on 4chan on Sunday around 4 pm.
Posters on 4chan and Reddit claimed that the celebrities were hacked through their iCloud accounts, though that hasn't been verified, and the method is unclear. Posters on 4chan and Twitter who claim to have additional video s have reportedly been requesting bitcoin in exchange for their release.
One Twitter user, whose account has since been suspended, posted that TMZ was attempting to purchase a trove of photos, and the anonymous 4chan uploader specifically referenced the gossip site in a 4:13 pm post, writing "I'd rather you get them than TMZ."
TMZ are going to post nudes of like 20 celebs tonight. They are offering the guy who hacked the phones of celebs 6 figure sums to sell them.

According to one Reddit commenter, nudes of the following celebrities have been leaked:

Photos allegedly of Jennifer Lawrence, Lea Michele, Kirstin Dunst, and others have begun to swirl.
Jennifer Lawrence's representatives confirmed to Buzzfeed that the leaked photos were authentic:
Jennifer Lawrence spox confirms authenticity of nude pics to @BuzzFeed , says anyone posting them will be prosecuted: http://t.co/tJ08aVo522
(It's unclear on what grounds those people will be "prosecuted.")

Mary Winstead has responded to the leak confirming the photos are of her:
To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves.
Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can only imagine the creepy effort that went into this. Feeling for everyone who got hacked.
Actress Victoria Justice says the photographs alleged to be her are fakes:
These so called nudes of me are FAKE people. Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended*
GUYD WE ARE SO STUPID THE VICTORIA JUSTICE NUDES ARE FAKE, LOOK. CLEARLY AN OLD PICTURE OF HER EDITED & FLIPPED. pic.twitter.com/T9cayuc2ZI
Representatives for Ariana Grande have told Buzzfeed , "The photos are completely fake."
Becca Tobin, an actress on Glee pictured decorating a Christmas tree in the nude, appears to have confirmed the veracity of the pictures on Twitter.

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On August 31, 2014, a collection of nearly 500 private pictures of numerous celebrities, mostly women, with many containing nudity , were posted on the imageboard 4chan , and soon disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit . The leak has been popularly dubbed The Fappening and also Celebgate . The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple 's cloud services suite iCloud , [1] [2] or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords. [3] [4] Apple claimed in a press release that access was gained via spear phishing attacks. [5] [6]

The incident was met with varied reactions from the media and fellow celebrities. Critics felt the distribution of the photos was a major invasion of privacy for their subjects, while some of the alleged subjects denied the images' authenticity. The leak also prompted increased concern from analysts surrounding the privacy and security of cloud computing services such as iCloud—with a particular emphasis on their use to store sensitive, private information.

"The Fappening" is a jocular portmanteau coined by combining the words " fap ", an internet slang term for masturbation , and the title of the 2008 film The Happening . Though the term is a vulgarism originating either with the imageboards where the pictures were initially posted or Reddit, mainstream media outlets soon adopted the term themselves, such as the BBC . [7] [8] The term has received criticism from journalists like Radhika Sanghani of The Daily Telegraph and Toyin Owoseje of the International Business Times , [9] who said that the term not only trivialized the leak, but also, according to Sanghani, "[made] light of a very severe situation." Both articles used the term extensively to describe the event, including in their headlines. [10]

The images were obtained via the online storage offered by Apple 's iCloud platform for automatically backing up photos from iOS devices, such as iPhones . [12] Apple later reported that the victims' iCloud account information was obtained using "a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions", such as phishing and brute-force attack guessing. [5] [6] [13] It was initially believed that the images were obtained using an exploit in the Find My iPhone service. [12] Court documents from 2014 indicated that one user created a fake email account called "appleprivacysecurity" to ask celebrities for security information. [14] The photos were being passed around privately for at least a couple of weeks before their public release on August 31. There are claims that unreleased photos and videos exist. [15]

The hacker responsible for the leak, who described themselves as being a "collector", distributed the leaked images on the image boards 4chan and Anon-IB in exchange for Bitcoin . [16] [17] Ultimately, the images were widely circulated online via other channels, including Imgur and Tumblr . Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton also re-posted some of the photos on his blog, but soon took them down and issued an apology, saying "he had acted in bad taste". [18] [19]

A major center of activity was the link-sharing website Reddit , [20] where a subreddit, /r/TheFappening , was created for sharing the photos; [21] in a single day, it amassed over 100,000 followers. Reddit administrators were criticized for allowing this to take place in an alleged violation of their anti- doxing rules. [22] [23] As McKayla Maroney claimed to be under 18 at the time the photos of her were taken, Reddit staff took photos of her down and warned that anyone re-posting them, or underage photos of Liz Lee which had been circulating prior to this incident, would be permanently banned from the site and could be prosecuted for distributing child pornography . [24] On September 7, citing copyright issues, Reddit banned /r/TheFappening, [21] [25] also saying the workload of dealing with them had become too much. [26] Reddit banned another subreddit named "Fappening" on the same day. [25]

The original release contained photos and videos of more than 100 individuals that were allegedly obtained from file storage on hacked iCloud accounts, [27] including some the leakers claimed were A-list celebrities. [28] [29] Shortly after the photos were leaked, several affected celebrities issued statements either confirming or denying the photos' authenticity. [30] [31] Celebrities who confirmed the photos' authenticity include Jennifer Lawrence (confirmed by her publicist), [32] Kate Upton and her husband Justin Verlander (confirmed by Upton's lawyer), [33] [34] [35] Mary Elizabeth Winstead (confirmed via Twitter ), [36] [37] Jessica Brown Findlay (confirmed by spokesman), [38] Kaley Cuoco (confirmed via Instagram), [39] [40] and Kirsten Dunst , who also criticized the iCloud service. [41] Jill Scott confirmed on Twitter that one of the leaked photos was of her while stating that another was fake. [42]

Celebrities who denied the photos' authenticity include Ariana Grande [43] [44] and Yvonne Strahovski . [45] Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney initially denied the images' authenticity on Twitter, [46] [47] but later confirmed the photos were legitimate while also saying she was underage when they were taken. [24] Victoria Justice denied the photos were authentic but later stated on Twitter that she was pursuing legal action and found the leak to be a massive invasion of not just her privacy, but of the privacy of all celebrities affected by the incident. [43] [48] Reports in October indicated that Nick Hogan was the first male star to be directly targeted by hackers; however, Hogan denied the pictures' authenticity. [49]

According to security expert Nik Cubrilovic , in addition to the photographs, other personal information such as text messages, calendars, address books, phone call logs and any other data stored on their phones and backed up to the service were also likely stolen. [50] [51]

On September 20, 2014, a second batch of similar private photos of additional celebrities was leaked by hackers. [52] On September 26, 2014, a third batch was also leaked, [53] which was dubbed "The Fappening 3". [54]

Actress Lena Dunham pleaded on Twitter for people not to view the photos, arguing that in doing so "you are violating these women over and over again. It's not okay." [55] Actress Emma Watson condemned not only the leak, but also "the accompanying comments [on social media] that show such a lack of empathy." [56] Actors Seth Rogen and Lucas Neff also spoke out against the hackers and people who posted the pictures. [57] Justin Verlander, then a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers , told the media prior to a game against the Cleveland Indians that he keeps his private life private and would rather focus on the Tigers' race with the Kansas City Royals for the AL Central title than be a distraction to his teammates. [58] Security analysts have stated that the breach could have been prevented through the use of two-factor authentication , [59] while a Forbes writer recommended completely shutting down the iCloud "Photo Stream" feature (which automatically uploads photos taken with an iOS device to iCloud servers). [60]

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal , Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that in response to the leak, the company planned to take additional steps to protect the privacy and security of iCloud users in the future. [61] Notifications will be provided whenever data is restored to a device via iCloud and after logging into iCloud via a web browser, [62] in addition to existing notifications when a user's iCloud password is changed. Additionally, Apple will broaden and encourage the use of two-factor authentication in future versions of its software and operating systems, such as the then-upcoming iOS 8 . In conclusion, he emphasized that "we want to do everything we can do to protect our customers, because we are as outraged if not more so than they are." [13]

Jennifer Lawrence contacted authorities and her publicist stated that the authorities would prosecute anyone who posted leaked images of her. [63] Forbes columnist Joseph Steinberg questioned whether the reactions by law enforcement and technology providers indicated that celebrities were being treated differently from ordinary Americans, which, in the case of law enforcement, may be illegal. [64]

On October 1, 2014, Google was threatened with a $100 million lawsuit by lawyer Martin Singer on behalf of unnamed victims of the leak, alleging that Google had refused to respond to requests for the images to be removed from its platforms (including Blogger and YouTube ), "[failing] to act expeditiously, and responsibly to remove the images", and "knowingly accommodating, facilitating, and perpetuating the unlawful conduct". [65] [66]

In an interview with Vanity Fair , victim Jennifer Lawrence called the hack a "sex crime" and a "sexual violation"; she added, "Anybody who looked at those pictures, you're perpetuating a sexual offense. You should cower with shame." [67] This view was contrasted by another victim of the hack, Emily Ratajkowski , who told GQ , "A lot of people who were victims of [the hack] said anyone who looks at these pictures should feel guilty, but I just don't think that's fair", and "I'm not sure that anyone who Googles it is necessarily a criminal. I think the people who stole the photos are". [68]

The FBI said it was "aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter." [69] Similarly, Apple stated that it had been investigating whether a security brea
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