Monday, September 01, 2014

Hacking Privacy Begins in Hollywood

By Douglas V. Gibbs

If the hackers can do it, you know the government can.

The media is all a-buzz over the hackers getting into the devices of celebrities, accessing hundreds of private pictures, including nude photographs of Jennifer Lawrence, which they posted online. . . or at least that is what we are being told.

The reports going around the web tell us that an anonymous hacker has performed a massive hacking job, gaining access to private photos of a hundred stars, via Apple’s online storage system iCloud.

The 60-odd pictures of Jennifer Lawrence were of her in varying stages of undress, and were then posted on the bulletin board website 4chan.

The alleged targets include reality TV star Kim Kardashian, singer Rihanna, models Candice Swanepoel, Cara Delevingne and Kelly Brook, and TV host Cat Deeley.

A spokesman for Lawrence confirmed the photos were real, saying the police had been contacted and they would prosecute anyone who posts the stolen pictures.

Final Destination actress Mary E. Winstead also confirmed she had been a victim of the hacker.

“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,” she wrote on her Twitter account.

“Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can only imagine the creepy effort that went into this. Feeling for everyone who got hacked.”

Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice however denied the nude photos that claim to show her are real.

She tweeted: “These so called nudes of me are FAKE people. Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended.*”

This comes on the heels of accusations that the NSA has been monitoring Americans, and with the IRS targeting the political opposition of President Obama, and his Democrat Party minions, like Tea Party groups and Republican Clubs, it seems reasonable to assume that if it is this easy for hackers to break into our private records stored in the cloud, then the leftists running the federal government are knee-deep into our privacy, already.  As for the records for Obamacare?  That's just a way to keep it all organized.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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