Jennifer Lawrence and many other celebrities...

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Shameful violation of privacy. Paparazzi and hackers are parasitic scum and should be eliminated.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I wonder how many years the leaker will get.

Supposedly he's Russian.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

My main issue with the article is that it could've made that exact same point without doing a surface-level google search for other goings-on in the news right now including women, throwing it into the same basket and saying "because sexists." I think the obsession with getting the naked pics is creepy, but if there was a Taylor Lautner sex tape I'm not going to lie to you and say I wouldn't be tempted. Being motivated by sex is not inherently misogynist or misandrist.

Except if you'd read the article, you'd know the author argues that this isn't motivated by sex. If a hacker was motivated by a sexual desire just to see the images, why would they share them? The author's argument is that sharing these photos on the Internet is an assertion of power and violation, and that this is the real motivation, and I agree with it. It's the same thing that motivates street harassment, revenge porn, and creepshots. It's not really about sex, or at least not only about sex, a part of the titillation is the knowledge that the victim feels violated.  

What I've read about the hacker ring (we know it's a ring now) suggests it's primarily about money, as most professional hacking is. The sort of half-assed character analysis in that article is helpful to no one.

And the "power" thing is really laughable because, of course, every one of these women is wealthy and famous and will easily recover from this the same way Scarlett did (other than maybe Kate Upton, whose career was based entirely on teasing teenage boys in photoshoots).

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

You're all missing the obvious point that the hacker is clearly a moron since if he wanted to make money the smart thing to do would be to hack Justin Bieber's phone. Imagine the amount of money you'd make from 15-year-old girls using their dad's credit cards to buy leaked sexts.

There's objectively more to be made from peddling photos to TMZ (and exchanging with others in the hacker ring).

Also, IIRC there were supposedly photos of Bieber circulated within this ring.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

A part of me wants to feel sorry of them, but another part of me thinks it serves them right and they shouldn't have taken the pictures in the first place.

Maybe I should be like Two-Face and flip a coin.

topkek

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Kate Upton is the face of uniquely American excess combined with an utter lack of talent or insight in any way. Her career was based entirely on being a tease, and now that that is gone she will establish herself as the only person whose career will actually be harmed by the leaks (J-Law will probably come out of this more popular).

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

A "white night" in theory is an affected straight man who goes out of his way to defend women in a cynical effort to get laid. In practice it's often used for the majority of men who side with women over the Internet in any context.