Celebrity Photo Leak/Hack
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
This hasn't been a good week to be a female celebrity.
I've been thinking quite hard about all of the things that have been said about it this week and here's the conclusion I came to:
The whole thing is about consent. None of the women who had their content shared consented for that to happen. And that makes looking at the pictures distinctly creepy. I do not want to be that kind of man.
In the extremely unlikely event that any of those women were to decide to send me a picture of themselves, they've consented to me seeing it and that is the bit that makes it sexy/erotic. Without that level of permission, I might as well be a peeping tom. That would be enough to put me on some kind of offenders register, which is also not the sort of man I want to be.
Yes, lessons learned about cloud storage. No, that doesn't really matter as much as some people think it does. Yes, it's an issue, but it's a secondary one.
Let's deal with it: nothing people build is perfect. There's generally a way into everything if you look hard enough and are prepared to dedicate time to it. We trust the things we trust because we kind of have to.
People, on the other hand, have a choice about how they behave.
Side note: I kind of got a little bent out of shape recently when I heard, for the eleventy billionth time, a fellow straight white male being described as a CIS-Shitlord. I didn't say anything, because I'm trying to be better at social media and that means thinking about responses instead of just posting. I eventually decided that while describing ALL CIS white males as Shitlords is unfair, it might be justified in specific cases. It turns out that, after this week, there are an awful lot more of those people than I thought and I am deeply unhappy with the way my gender has represented itself.
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I've been thinking quite hard about all of the things that have been said about it this week and here's the conclusion I came to:
The whole thing is about consent. None of the women who had their content shared consented for that to happen. And that makes looking at the pictures distinctly creepy. I do not want to be that kind of man.
In the extremely unlikely event that any of those women were to decide to send me a picture of themselves, they've consented to me seeing it and that is the bit that makes it sexy/erotic. Without that level of permission, I might as well be a peeping tom. That would be enough to put me on some kind of offenders register, which is also not the sort of man I want to be.
Yes, lessons learned about cloud storage. No, that doesn't really matter as much as some people think it does. Yes, it's an issue, but it's a secondary one.
Let's deal with it: nothing people build is perfect. There's generally a way into everything if you look hard enough and are prepared to dedicate time to it. We trust the things we trust because we kind of have to.
People, on the other hand, have a choice about how they behave.
Side note: I kind of got a little bent out of shape recently when I heard, for the eleventy billionth time, a fellow straight white male being described as a CIS-Shitlord. I didn't say anything, because I'm trying to be better at social media and that means thinking about responses instead of just posting. I eventually decided that while describing ALL CIS white males as Shitlords is unfair, it might be justified in specific cases. It turns out that, after this week, there are an awful lot more of those people than I thought and I am deeply unhappy with the way my gender has represented itself.
