Blame the tech companies for delivering products with crappy default security settings, not the non-expert users whose accounts are hacked.
— Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist with the ACLU, tweets about the theft of private, nude celebrity photos stored on the cloud. There are reports that hackers accessed the photos on Apple s iCloud, and the company has said it is investigating. (So is the FBI.) Soghoian s tweet addresses the loads of commentary with a common refrain: that the female celebrities shouldn t have taken nude photos in the first place.
Comments that blame the victim, Amanda Hess writes for Slate, suggest that female sexuality is so easily exploitable that women like [Jennifer] Lawrence would be best not to engage in it at all, even on their own terms. Lawrence was one of those whose nude photos were exposed.
Photos: Jennifer Lawrence, left, and Rihanna are two of the female celebrities whose nude photos were stolen and posted online. (AFP/Getty Images)