Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) 97
Joseph Cox, reporting for The Daily Beast: Data obtained by a security analyst and shared with The Daily Beast reveals the behind-the-scenes of the epicenter of revenge porn: a notorious image board called Anon-IB, where users constantly upload non-consensual imagery, comment on it, and trade nudes like baseball cards. The data shows Anon-IB users connecting from U.S. Senate, Navy, and other government computers, including the Executive Office of the President, even as senators push for a bill that would further combat the practice, and after the military's own recent revenge-porn crisis. "Wow tig ol bitties. You have any nudes to share?" someone wrote in November, underneath a photo of a woman who apparently works in D.C., while connecting from an IP address registered to the U.S. Senate.
Anon-IB is a free-to-use message board where users post images, typically of women, and which is split into various genre or location sections. Some parts are focused on countries, while U.S. sections may narrow down to a state. Many users pursue so-called wins, which are nude or explicit photos, and may egg each other on to share more images. Anon-IB was also intertwined with a 2014 breach of celebrity nudes referred to as The Fappening. "Looking for wins of [redacted]. She used to send nudes to my friend all of the time. Would love to see some more," someone connecting from the U.S. Senate IP address wrote last August.
Anon-IB is a free-to-use message board where users post images, typically of women, and which is split into various genre or location sections. Some parts are focused on countries, while U.S. sections may narrow down to a state. Many users pursue so-called wins, which are nude or explicit photos, and may egg each other on to share more images. Anon-IB was also intertwined with a 2014 breach of celebrity nudes referred to as The Fappening. "Looking for wins of [redacted]. She used to send nudes to my friend all of the time. Would love to see some more," someone connecting from the U.S. Senate IP address wrote last August.
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Though for some odd reason, whenever some politician can't weasel out of some sleazy sex allegation and has to make some sort of public statement, begging for forgiveness, it's some conservative.
Err... what ? Al Franken ? Conyers ? Ted Kennedy ? Bill Clinton ? Just off the top of my head.
Can we not pretend that this is even remotely partisan ?
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Only the conservative ones are forced to actually address the event.
I can think of a certain POTUS that stands as a counterexample.
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Only the conservative ones are forced to actually address the event.
I can think of a certain POTUS that stands as a counterexample.
And who has now been immortalized for geologic eons:
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Wrong again. Even with a short memory, you should remember that Al Frankin got drummed out.
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Kennedy and Clinton prett7y much weaselled their way out, although Clinton did get his tail feathers singed. Franken and Conyers, not so much. Things seem to be changing.
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For conservatives, it was not the sex that damaged them, but the hypocrisy. They put themselves out there as "family values" champions, yet were chasing nookie on the sly.
The same thing happened to Al Franken. All of his accusers said they came forward because of his posturing and preaching about Roy Moore and others, while he had engaged in groping and other bad behavior himself.
Simple heuristic: Practice what you preach.
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It's kind of sad to see people getting a pass for having no standards at all, though.
Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were both given a pass because they were well known philanderers before they were elected. It is silly to elect them and then complain that they are what they appeared to be.
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And that's what happened with Broaddrick.
Now you know why repiglicant's didn't use her during impeachment.
Fear of exposure for the frauds they are
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Or the message that, if you want to keep a political career, apologize for nothing, deny everything, and smear your accusers.
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So, if Al Franken had defended Roy Moore, he would still be a senator?
He should not have defended him, but he shouldn't have been so vocal in attacking him either.
The problem with Franken is that, like many offenders, he could recognize bad behavior in others, but honestly didn't see it in himself.
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I still don't know about Franken. I wanted to see an investigation, but most of the Democratic Senators wanted him to resign.
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I still don't know about Franken. I wanted to see an investigation
What is there to "investigate"?
He was accused of "forced kissing" and crude sexist gestures, with photographic evidence for the later. Franken said it wasn't as bad as it appeared, but apologized. Then more accusations of groping were made by several women who didn't know each other and had no apparent political motive. Then Franken resigned.
That's it. What could an "investigation" possibly add? In politics, calling for an investigation is just a way to delay, obfusticate, and change the subject.
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It's groping not a criminal act in that jurisdiction?
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It's groping not a criminal act in that jurisdiction?
The alleged events occurred over a decade ago. The statute of limitations expired long ago.
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Thanks, that answers my question. Many places don't have such a limitation, e.g. in the UK there are now investigations into abuse that happened decades ago.
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Yeah, people like you who have sexual intercourse with non-mammals should be banned, assuming that accused == guilty.
There was a photograph of Franken making a crude sexual gesture, yes. It was clearly a setup shot, with no actual contact. Franken was trying for edgy humor at that time, and when you do that you'll go over the line into bad taste (which this was) now and then. There were accusations. I don't trust "no apparent political motive" when we're dealing with a prominent Senator, and the idea
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Either you are misinterpreting the photo, or you're looking at an altered version. In the photo I saw, it's clear on close examination that there was no physical contact.
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"Using one side's outliers to validate the other side's core values is a Jedi mind trick that only works on the weak minded."
Which is why I'm ignoring your argument completely. Now stop waving your hand.
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don't forget Anthony Weiner and Elliot Spitzer
seriously... with the names like Spitzer and Weiner, its like they were doomed to fail
I'll have what he's having (Score:1)
Though for some odd reason, whenever some politician can't weasel out of some sleazy sex allegation and has to make some sort of public statement, begging for forgiveness, it's some conservative.
Granted, mostly because no liberal gives a fuck what their politicians do in the bed as long as they do their work...
I'm pretty Liberal, but what are you on? There have been plenty of asshat liberals who have done this.
ain't no saints in the city (Score:1)
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You're an idiot. The existence of revenge-porn-themed commercial porn has no more relevance to actual revenge porn than schoolgirl-themed commercial porn has to actual child porn.
Yes, and? (Score:1)
They're still anonymous. Why did you post this on Slashdot?
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powerful men? on the anon board?
put down the crack pipe... and back away from the computer... slowly...
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Doesn't mean they should end up on display for anybody to see. It isn't her fault the dude she sent them to was like "I should put these for everybody in the world to see, complete with her name. I don't need to ask permission because ah fuck it."
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100% the fault is with the person who broke trust.
There is NOTHING wrong with someone sharing the most explicit sexual photos of themselves with whoever they want to share them with. There's plenty wrong with passing on photos you have received without permission to do so.
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You keep on living in Utopia, buddy, where no one their doors. The rest of us will keep on locking our doors and keep telling our daughters not to do stupid shit like this.
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I am aware of the difference between what is 'right' and what is practical.
Your response, however is telling. Why just your daughters? Why isn't it just as bad sons are sending dick pics?
That attitude has to change, and saying "That's just the way it is" is not the way to do it.
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Why isn't it just as bad sons are sending dick pics?
Trying to pull a Tu quoque... but no: this article is about women sending nude photos of themselves. When there's an article about guys sending dick pics to women, I'll duly criticize the guys.
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>Trying to pull a Tu quoque...
No, the hypocrisy is real, and you're selectively interpreting my posts...for what? To look clever? To me you're just looking thick.
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Since I'm not excusing guys who do it (and not many others either -- refer to Anthony Weiner if you don't believe me), your accusation of hypocrisy is completely bogus.
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Women (and men) have known for millennia that men are amoral pigs, most of whom will say anything to fuck any female he thinks is slightly attractive and vaguely willing, and then brag about it. The others are too chicken.
For women to expect that men won't do this is stupidity of the highest magnitude.
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If he can convince a woman to spread her thighs, of course, she will be sending slut-pics. This is humiliation of a female making bad choices; while we ignore the selfish behaviour and hypocrisy of the male who encouraged and demanded such bad choices.
The others are too chicken.
A telling judgement: Namely, that men who don't tolerate bad choices and worse, don't take advantage of them, must be disrespected.
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Or maybe she just had a relationship with him and trusted him too much, or maybe she made a mistake because you know young people and flattery...
Nothing about this seems to warrant blaming the victim.
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Or maybe she just had a relationship with him and trusted him too much, or maybe she made a mistake because you know young people and flattery...
Women and girls constantly whine about guys bragging about their sexual conquests. Sharing nude selfies comes from the same mindset.
If the matriarchy is truly to arrive, women have to stop being so stupid.
Nothing about this seems to warrant blaming the victim.
I'd blame you if your car was stolen and you left the door unlocked and the keys in the car.
The thief should still be arrested, and I'd be glad he (because, honestly, how many female car thieves are there?) was, yet I'd still blame you for gross stupidity.
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Young people will never stop being stupid. That's human nature.
A society that doesn't allow people to make mistakes and recover from them will suck.
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Exactly. The Soviet Union collapsed because people weren't allowed to say how bad Communism sucked.
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don't you think?
Well, given that the domain hosting it has a .SU TLD, other than some complicated blocking routine among a lot of ISPs, it would be difficult to stop it. I guess they could try, but, the more Gov'ts try to stomp on things like this, the more pervasive they become because it elevates the taboo level and thus makes it even more desirable so more people want it and thus it pops up in more and more and more places than it would if they'd just left it alone to fap in the corner.
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For a crackdown on misuse of the Internet using government computers? Yes, I think it is excellent justification.
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Oh boo-hoo, Trumpster.
Why is it you idiots never have a clue about the First Amendment? Hint: Twitter, as a private company that is NOT the government, has the right to kick you off their service for any reason they choose, including your racism and other asshole opinions.
And really? James O'Keefe, the noted fraudster who has already been caught deceptively editing videos and is considered just another rightwing fake news troll? THAT James O'Keefe???
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Misery likes company, I guess.
Let's see (Score:4, Funny)
Any chance for the peepee-tape?
stupid primates. (Score:2)
We go out of our way to invent the most powerful technologies and what happens in return? Some subhuman rejects abuse it in some of the worst ways. This is why humanity can't have nice things.
is anyone really surprised by this? (Score:5, Insightful)
We are talking about a body of people who feel they are exempt from the very laws they pass. They commit insider trading and yet the SEC never prosecutes them. They pass a healthcare plan that is touted to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, yet exempted themselves from that too. Sexual harassment training is required of all government employees and military, and yet we recently learned that the house and senate did NOT have any such programs in place. Its as if they think their Congressional Immunity extends beyond the narrow definition of Legislative Acts as defined by the Supreme Court.
Re:is anyone really surprised by this? (Score:4, Insightful)
Don't look at us liberals. We wanted to give everyone to have the same kind of health care plan that members of Congress get, but we had to settle for a Republican health care plan ginned up by the Heritage Foundation for Bob Dole's presidential campaign. You know, the one that not only preserves private insurance companies, but also guarantees them more customers and compensates them for absorbing high risk patients.
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They pass a healthcare plan that is touted to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, yet exempted themselves from that too
Actually, the opposite happened.
Chuck Grassley of Iowa thought he had a brilliant plan to sabotage the Affordable Care Act: He would add an amendment that required members of Congress to get their health insurance from the ACA exchanges, instead of continuing on the government's employer-provided health insurance. Surely the Democrats would balk at his clever amendment, and then he would have his big press conference and gotcha moment!!
The Democrats accepted his amendment and put it in the bill.
This caused
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We are talking about a body of people who feel they are exempt from the very laws they pass.
We're talking about reporting that says stuff like ""Would love to see some more," someone connecting from the U.S. Senate IP address wrote last August." Really? The US Senate has one IP address? (Cf: definite vs. indefinite articles). That's a pretty big red flag as to the accuracy of the story.
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