The hack apparently was simply a dictionary password attack against their accounts. If so Apple holds some responsibility since a good idea to a service is to disallow (or better notify) the account holder after x number failed login attempts. Or at least have the login attempts take up a reasonable amount of time (say 500ms) so you can only try a few times a second, making a brute force or dictionary attack nearly useless. Every system I've coded for years has a password hashing scheme which uses enough resources to take hundreds of ms at least.
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Originally Posted by AcGold
Get an actual camera and keep the images 100% offline if they want to do nude selfies.
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And someone steals them by breaking into their house. There's no such thing as 100% security, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to have to behave in drastically different ways or not do things that lots of other people do just because they're more famous than others. The problem is with society, not with the people.
Speaking of problem with society, why is it damaging to these actresses's careers if their nude photos get out (or by extension any women who is supposed to fear for her professional career if a nude photo gets out on the Internet), but I don't hear anyone saying Justin Verlander's career is in jeopardy. I've only seen praise for him ("good catch"), or suggestions of ribbing in the locker room.
It's just pictures of naked people, what's the big deal. Society's response should be a giggle then move on, then if/when it does happen it isn't such an invasion and damaging.