The leaked photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other stars illustrate again the dangers of selfies.  It is not necessarily who you send them to – just having them on your own phone, and saved to the cloud, can be dangerous.  Insiders say the photos, and a censored one of Jennifer Lawrence appears alongside this article, were hacked off Apple’s iCloud.  Other speculate the passwords were picked up at another site and then used on iCloud but either way saving photos and files to the cloud clearly has advantages – and disadvantages.  The reality is from the person next door, to the most famous and desired actress of the current time, the majority of people have photographs that could prove embarrassing in the wrong hands.  Experts recommend changing passwords and using a password manager because the more sites you use the same password with, the more you expose yourself to these hackers.  I have had attempted hacks made on my Gmail account and the hackers showed interest in items that only a lawyer or competitor would have any interest in.  Once I changed my password I immediately got sent a fake phishing message allegedly from google requiring my new password.  In recent times other systems at our firm have come under attack until certain additional systems were put in place.

Its terribly sad that people have their privacy violated, in some cases just because they are famous or powerful and it’s a disgraceful reflection on the people that hack the information and then leak them.  I certainly hope if the offenders are caught they get a stiff prison sentence as cyber criminals needs to start getting whacked hard.  I don’t think though, however much the various actresses are squirming now, that they should think people think less of them.  I don’t think the pictures of Jennifer Lawrence are going to do her career any harm or that any normal man or woman will think anything other than sorry for her, but identify with her that she is just like them and has private pictures she was taking for someone special in her life or herself.  She isn’t the exception in terms of the photo’s she had – except for her exceptional looks.