You thought I would say boyfriend problems, competing for the same role—or maybe dated the same celebrity guy. No this time it’s overexposure and not of the wardrobe malfunction type. Celebrities are people too—folks tend to forget that. They have their moments, like the ones when they take sexy photos to share with their partners. Given how often they change partners, they may do more deleting than the rest of us—but when it comes to cyberspace, once it’s out there, it’s out there.
A couple of days ago Rihanna, Jennifer Lawrence, and a few other celebrity ladies were speaking loudly through their publicists about nude and sexually explicit photos of them that had been hacked and posted online. Apparently these photos were taken over several years and were being stored in that impenetrable vault, the cloud. So of course, this shouldn’t have happened, right? Not so fast.
There is something very deceiving about the sense of security people feel when they use servers and cloud technology that claim to be hack-proof. The worst kept secret is that this is not even possible—just ask the Pentagon and any businesses that have had their data compromised. Given this belief, it’s likely that many women and people out there have taken compromising photos and/or made sexually explicit home movies, believing they were private and would remain so.
Not only has this happened to the famous—many regular women have had compromising photos that were still in the possession of exes go viral. This is mostly known as revenge sex or when boys kiss and tell. Yes, shame on them but ladies—you are just too smart for that.
The take away here is that NOTHING you will is secure, kind of like emails, audio tapes, etc. many a person has been run afoul of the law or had a serious image problem when something like this got out. When you are in a relationship and you are in love, it’s great, there is trust and you just know this guy would never do something like that—think again.
Does this mean you can’t have some sexy, edgy fun? No, just get all the “negatives”–in this case that involves any and all digital traces so they can never go online, where they will be forever and accessible to some savvy hacker with time on their hands. Not to mention a disgruntled ex who is out to make it hard for you.
And unlike Jennifer who acknowledged her photos had been compromised—deny, deny, deny. Blame photo shop—it usually works and proving it isn’t is a job no one will take on.
