Recently, there's been a spate of sex scandals involving leaked nude/sex photos and videos in Asia. How did these private photos and videos get out into the open?
2. The computer where the photos are stored is infected with malware. Some lamer then takes remote control of the computer over the Internet and transfers the files over to his computer.
3. The computer or device holding the nude or sex photos falls into someone else's hands, as in Edison Chen's case.
So far, no nude or sex photo that has (only) been passed into my hands has been leaked, simply because:
1. I do not use malware-infected Windoze computers to house important information. I see them as a huge security vulnerability, so much so that I've barred them from making any network connection with my Linux computers within my internal network.
2. I'm a nice girl. I'm not one of those creeps who like to boast about their sexual conquests or ownership of compromising photos of girls.
3. I'm the one who fixes my computers when they break. Remember, my name is not Edison Chen - it's Wei-Yee Chan. :P
For photos and videos that are "above top secret", I deploy a special cryptographic technique that I've formulated. I can't tell you any more as it's a secret. ;-)
But of course, cryptography isn't everything that security is about. I'll give you a good example. There's this perverted $in-gapore "IT pro" (in actual fact, a lamer) who asked me how his porn files got into the hands of a colleague when he was using TrueCrypt. Apparently, he did not know how on-the-fly encryption works, and he was sharing one of the decrypted folders over the internal network! *Rotfl* As I always say, even the "best" security hardware or software can prove useless in the hands of a moron.
To all the cam whores out there who have their photos with me (and no one else), rest assured that your photos are in good hands - I will continue to guard them with my life.
When it comes to the security of your photos and videos, I apply the following Gurkha motto:
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There's the winter moon Shining through my window But I'm not asleep Because I miss you so If you could have known The way I felt today And this feeling's real Oh why'd you go away
Well I think I'm in love You're so far away It's too late to say I'm in love Well I think I'm in love
If I could have your heart For just one more day I would tell you dear That I'd wish you'd stay Now you're gone for good And I can't take the pain Oh I'll be here for you I wish you'd feel the same
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Kim, who is in his 30s, used a camera in his mobile phone to take the picture of the woman in her 20s, as she sat in front of him.
During questioning, police found the photo saved on his mobile phone and charged him with sexual harassment. The picture (not the ones shown here) showed the woman's legs with a skirt covering her thighs 10-15 centimetres above the knees.
The top court supported an acquittal by a lower court which said, "It is hard to say that the defendant took a picture of a part of another person’s body that can cause sexual desire or shame."
In South Korea, any unauthorised filming of someone else's body parts to create sexual desire or shame constitutes sexual harassment - a crime subject to five years in prison or a fine of up to 10 million won (US$ 10,000).
Women's groups have protested the court's acquittal.
"No matter which part of the body the man photographed, it is an infringement of human rights if he took the picture without her permission," said Kim Eun-kyung, a director of Korea Women’s Associations United.
"It is regrettable that recent court rulings are lenient to violators of women rights," she added.