IF YOU’RE LIVING IN THE INTERNET’S CLOUD
(…keep your nude selfies…to yourself)

The latest hacking episodes by a collective of digital vandals, which not only targeted brand name big-box merchandisers, from which they pillaged potentially lucrative credit card and other account data, but they also went after a large number of celebrity accounts as well, deliberately extracting from those “intimate” (if not salacious) pictures of them, offering to either return or destroy them…for a price…if the celebrities involved didn’t want them posted for all to see.

Extortion is the name of that game, and the digital world just makes it so much easier to practice. All of which proves a very important thing about that parallel universe we call-The Internet -, and that is… PRIVACY…DOES NOT EXIST THERE!…and it never will, because of the nature of its technology.

So governments and regulatory bureaucracies of one kind or another can pass all the laws and rules against such hacking “invasions” of privacy they want, it will not put an end to such digital vandalism. Nor will it matter if service providers devise new and better ways and means for all sorts of security measures to counter such activity either. At best all such efforts will simply make it more difficult to do…but nothing more.

So the moral of this story is plain and simple enough for even the most avidly narcissistic celebrity to comprehend: if you’re living in the internet’s digital cloud…KEEP YOUR NUDE SELFIES TO YOURSELF!…they won’t be showing anything more special than what the rest of us have.

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