That's more of an issue with them not trying hard enough or caring in non-celebrity cases, not that they are doing the wrong thing here. If something goes negative for me, or justice is denied, I don't then wish bad things on everybody else as some for of cosmic karmic payback for the world to make everybody as miserable as myself. Plus, this isn't just some copyright infringement or theft case. Those would be bad enough as it is, but in some places and for some people what happened to them is a form of sexual assault, it should be. I also would be just as pissed off it happened to a women down the street as I would be it happening to an A-list celebrity. Nobody deserves it.
I didn't say that anyone deserved anything. And no, the theft of pictures (whether they're nudes or someone dressed up like a cartoon character) from an off-site server is not sexual assault. But yes, it is a crime. It's an invasion of privacy. And that's what I said from the beginning.
Sort of like I said before, lets imagine this hypothetical situation. If you have or if someday you have a daughter, and on her 18th birthday or over (just to leave the whole child porn aspect of this alone for now with is even worse still) some putrid slimeball sneaks up to her window when she's unaware and snaps a bunch of very intimate maybe even explicit photos of her naked, maybe even with her significant other, and then rushes off to sell them, share them with a select group of peers, or post them on the internet how the hell would you feel? How would you feel if gigantic portion of the world, all doucebags, got to look at it because they wanted to. You know what, I have a feeling it wouldn't be "a storm in a tea cup" then, would it?
But here, you're not describing the theft of pictures taken by my hypothetical daughter, placed by her on an off-site server and the password (or hints) given by her to the trickster/thief. Trespassing, with the intent of doing what you're describing, is a totally different crime than what happened here. In your case, someone knows where she lives, has "visited" her and might pose a danger to her. No, that's not a storm in a tea cup. But you're mixing & matching. If she puts pictures of herself on a server and then gives up the password? Yeah, that's something she's going to have to get over. It sucks that it happened. It's illegal and it's wrong that someone tricked her that way. And she might be embarrassed - but if she's (really) my kid, I seriously doubt this blip on the screen will scar her in any way. This likely would not be the most difficult thing she's going to face in life. Storm in a teacup. Get up. Move forward. Get on with life.
What if your daughter was very emotionally scarred from that experience as I think a lot of people would be? I sure the hell known how I would feel. I would be deeply enraged. That would be the only way I could describe it. I might be pissed at falling for phishing scam, or losing money but it would pail compared to that. I would like to think I wouldn't take vengeance on them, as I have tried to devote my life to not wanting revenge, only fair justice. I would also hope I could be forgiving if somebody that wrongs other truly repents, becomes a good person, and does their best to make proper restitution. You know what thought, I've known people in my life that couldn't do that. This would drive them past what any money scam could. They would have made it their mission in life to kill the person that wronged their little girl like that. Some of them would have even made their ends very painful and horrible.
Anyone who'd consider killing or maiming someone over self-taken pictures stolen off a server has issues that are beyond my help or advice.
Almost all those people were cared about by others out there. They were somebody’s little girl. Maybe we should stop treating others as emotionless objects when it suits our enjoyment and think of others as human beings just like us, because that is what they are. Maybe we should put ourselves in a place that ask, “what if that was my sister or daughter instead of some distant celeb.” I think some have a tendency of looking at celebrities or people like the performers on this website and forget that they are people and have the same feelings as everybody else.
In a broad or general sense, I don't really have an issue with what you're saying here. I can tell you are passionate about this issue and maybe, with all due respect, that's why you're turning up the melodrama and hyperbole a bit too much (IMO). Kate Upton is not sitting in a dark hotel room right now, with a bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and a Smith & Wesson .44 Mag in the other, wondering if life is worth living any longer. I don't know her personally, but trust me, I seriously doubt she (or any other rational, sane person) is
that fragile and delicate.
Some people don’t think. They don’t think or worse don’t care of the repercussions of their actions. Money can at least be gotten again. Even broken bones can heal. Some scars can’t though. Maybe a lot, maybe the vast majority, of the women that were hacked will have the strength to end up brushing this off, learning from their mistakes, and be perfectly fine getting on with their lives. (And even if they do that still doesn’t lessen or absolve those that did wrong.) I think good many will. I very much hope that is the case, but what of the ones that can’t, even if it’s deep inside where it’s not obvious to those not close to them? See that’s the thing about being violated. Money and objects can be fixed. Violating somebody is an attack that hurts their very selves. Sometimes there is no recovering from that. The people that think this is a tempest in a teacup are the ones that totally trivialize the serious nature of what happened or have trouble having empathy with others.
Money can be gotten again? Broken bones heal? Money and objects can be fixed? So this is what you would say to an elderly person who has had their only source of income stolen away or diverted? While their landlord is carrying their stuff to the sidewalk after six months of non-payment, you'd tell them that even though they're broke, homeless and hungry now, at least they didn't get any nude pictures taken off a server - cause that would be so much worse? :dunno: I'm sure that's not how you see it. But connecting the dots, that is how it came out. I am actually quite empathetic... in some cases. But I don't and haven't lived my life worrying about (you got it) storms in tea cups. I have already stated that this was a crime. But in & of itself, it is but a small pebble in the issue of cyber security.
