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[vicarz]

Pr0n WARNING! You might be in it!
Wow, turns out if you use photobucket there is a method of pulling your "private" photos and videos. TONS of private fleshy pictures, videos, videos, videos, videos only shown to trusted friends, videos to your lover, videos only seen by yourself, videos in which you farted at the end so you didn't even send it, videos videos videos --- are all over the internet and you may not even know. So, even if you can trust the person you sent it to or you didn't, but trust yourself, you cannot trust the website to keep your private videos private.

Comments

[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries. I'm smart enough to leave the Bucket O' Love pics right out there in public.

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

Heavens. The world might discover that I have skin.

[empressmiaka.livejournal.com]

Ooh thanks for the warning.

[kelowna.livejournal.com]

A) Photobucket sucks.

B) Anything that goes on the Internet STAYS on the Internet. Those that presume there is privacy out there are naive. There isn't. Its just a level of probability to something happening.

Bleat.

Okay, but what about

[acesifda.livejournal.com]

First, how are these pictures and videos getting hacked and disseminated in the first place? Get a better password, or don't upload them onto the internet if that scares you.

Now, what about those of us who still want to make a little private collection of keepsakes and memoirs, so we can still reminisce all nostalgic-like when we're old or horny or sad...?

Any advice on convincing arguments or stepping up security protocols?

Thanks, Internets!

Got that, but

[acesifda.livejournal.com]

you know, despite the crappy security and high risk of sensitive home footage accidentally finding it's way onto Kazaa or somesuch-
which most of us would probably not want to happen-
I have to wonder, is it just me, or does anyone else find the simple prospect of taping some buck-naked nature-time completely normal?
(for lack of a better word)
"apropos" and grand!

I wouldn't recommend the practice to just anyone, of course.
"Trailer Park Trannies" for instance, should never be seen by anyone.

Baffled

[elvenfrost.livejournal.com]

It baffles the mind to think that people think anything on the net can't be somehow ganked by others no matter how secure the sites security is supposedly. It's the internet people! I think people get stuck thinking in the realm of the physical where you can have for example a safe with a combination. Passwords and firewalls do not equal safety deposit box, lock and key or any other such thing. The postcard anology is really right on! Monster had thousands of peoples information hacked a couple years ago. I was one of those to receive the apology letter from Monster.

[predigested.livejournal.com]

I await your instructions on how to get at all of these private videos. This post is not complete without a tutorial.

[trhodes.livejournal.com]

SQL injection attacks are a norm these days with so many websites going "dynamic" with PHP or ASP as their primary languages and "Microsoft SQL Server" or Oracle or MySQL or ... being the database backend. Crafting specific URLs to access assumed private data (usernames, passwords, images, etc) is very possible when developers aren't anticipating what people would try.

Now, I heard about this attack a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I can't remember if it was an injection attack or just a URL change. But I'm leaning toward the latter.

My answer to all the people who've had "private" nude or sexually based images/videos stolen ... don't make them. The second you make something like that is the second someone could gain access. Whether you accidentally throw it out, leave it out and a room mate/friend looks at it, put it on the Internet, whatever. The best way to hide something like that is not have it exist. ;)