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It’s time to face the naked truth. According to the New York Daily News the latest celebrity phone hacking scandal hasn't stopped or even slowed people down from taking naked selfies. In fact the McAfee security company’s 2014 Love, Relationships & Technology survey reveals that 54% of their respondents regularly send or receive intimate photos, videos, texts and emails, and that number spikes to 70% when it comes to those aged 18 to 24. "I can only think of two people my age who haven't done it. It becomes like a sort of weird correspondence. If I snapchat someone a pic, they would send one back," says Julia, a 22-year-old English student, "It's sort of like a flirty thing, you meet a boy on a night out, you'd snapchat him a picture instead of texting him."
“If you’re taking selfies on a regular basis, that is going to get boring,” says John Suler, a member of the editorial board for the journal, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking. “So it becomes more risque, and that eventually leads to nude photos.” The desire to capture the naked body and share it with others is nothing new. “Every new medium that comes along, from cave paintings onward, no sooner does the medium get invented then people start using it for nudes,” says Robert Thompson, a pop-culture historian at Syracuse University. “We’ve found very explicit nude paintings on the walls of Pompeii.” While abstaining from taking nudies altogether is the only way to guarantee they won’t leak, it’s not a realistic approach for many. It’s more practical to password protect your phone and photo storage, doublecheck the recipient before hitting “send,” and to only sext someone you trust completely. “We have decided that the things we like to do online are things we like so much that we’re willing to take the risk,” says Thompson. “I know my credit card is not totally secure anywhere online... but I am willing to take that chance because I want to be able to order things online.”
(Score: 2, Insightful) by deimios on Tuesday September 30 2014, @01:13PM
Or you could, you know, leave your face off the picture! That would prevent a LOT of problems down the line, even if your phone is hacked...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JNCF on Tuesday September 30 2014, @02:24PM
Meh, this is only a short term solution. It will protect you if the photo is realeased today, but some smart fuckers will make algorithms to identify other parts of the human body from photos with incredible degrees of accuracy. It's only a matter of time, I have no idea how much. Moreover, if you send the pic with your phone it's still tied to your identity.
I heard an interview with Dan Savage on the Joe Rogan podcast where Savage proposed that we invent a new holiday, Spartacus [youtube.com] Day, where everybody puts naked pictures of themselves online. That way the photos lose their novelty, and people will (theoretically) stop giving a shit about them. I think this is a better route to take.
Obviously, asking apes not to send naked pictures to other apes just isn't realistic.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday September 30 2014, @11:36PM
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday October 03 2014, @10:49PM
Yeah, this is only a temporary problem. We've already seen algorithms from Google that will take a photo with a bit missing and fill it in with something that fits from some other picture from the internet. Just take someone's head from a photo and tell it to only look for matches on porn sites. The technology basically already exists, and people do it manually in Photoshop all the time, just needs to get more automated and then nobody will be able to tell if that nude is real or fake...and probably won't care.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:03PM
Or you could, you know, leave your face off the picture! That would prevent a LOT of problems down the line, even if your phone is hacked..
That negates much of the value of taking a nude selfie. Nude selfies are about expressing trust in the recipient. If you send them pictures without your face it tells them you don't trust them very much.
(Score: 2) by strattitarius on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:08PM
Oh right, because it isn't about "expressing trust" and more about expressing sexual feelings.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:44PM
> In that case why not give them your CC numbers (with expiration and ccv) and bank account info.
How emotionally void do you have to be to think that sharing banking information conveys the same level of intimacy as being naked with someone? I am just stunned by your utter disconnect from humanity.
(Score: 2) by strattitarius on Tuesday September 30 2014, @04:15PM
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @05:11PM
I figured you would hide behind literalism.
Good for you - pedancy over meaning, the best way to understand the world!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by strattitarius on Tuesday September 30 2014, @05:19PM
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @06:06PM
I saw the tone and thought it was the tone of the smug asshole who thinks he knows better when in fact he knows less.
Are you trying to say that you were actually confirming rather than disputing the original point?
Because if you were agreeing with my post then you did a piss-poor job of showing it.
(Score: 2) by strattitarius on Tuesday September 30 2014, @06:32PM
You (assuming you ACs are all the same) only quoted the part about "send a CC number", not the part where I said it was not about "trust" but about "sexual emotions". Which some could consider very similar to your first response to me that stated there was a difference between trust and intimacy, but you failed to realize that I was not actually suggesting that someone would do such a thing (send CC info) instead of sending a nudie, only that it is a pretty stupid way to try to convey trust in a person. So actually, it was you that did a pretty piss poor job of communicating.
And now that you have gone into full troll mode, we're done.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @07:15PM
> not the part where I said it was not about "trust" but about "sexual emotions".
You denied it was about trust and then said it was about "sexual feelings" not emotions.
If you were actually agreeing that it was about about an emotional connection then why even bother to post?
> only that it is a pretty stupid way to try to convey trust in a person.
Revealing yourself to a lover is the most fundamental way of expressing trust that humans have and we've been doing it ever since in the invention of clothing. That you think it is stupid just reinforces my point about you being completely ignorant of humanity.