Brickbat: I See You

A former Louisville, Ky., police officer used software used by law enforcement agencies to help hack the Snapchat accounts of young women to obtain sexually explicit photos and videos. Bryan Wilson provided data he obtained on the women with the software to a hacker who broke into their accounts. Wilson then used those photos and videos to attempt to extort more sexually explicit material from the women. Wilson pleaded guilty to cyberstalking in June, but the methods he used were only recently made public in court documents. Prosecutors are urging he be sentenced at the lower end of guidelines in this  and another case in which he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate civil rights through the arbitrary use of force by throwing drinks at pedestrians from an unmarked police car.

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[Adans smith]

Don't worry, he'll find a job in another city. BTW, were they hot?

[mad.casual]

BTW, were they hot?

Yes, the nudes he published were stolen.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

No, the correct libertarian answer is that intellectual property can't be stolen.

[mad.casual]

Especially not by actors of the state. Fair enough.

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[Brandybuck]

Information wants to be free!

Okay, seriously, information doesn't want anything, it's not sapient. But people forget that copyrights are not fundamental property rights, but arise from a compromise with state chartered monopolies. Ayn Rand was wrong on this issue.

[mad.casual]

Okay, seriously, information doesn’t want anything, it’s not sapient.

And "Nature abhors a vacuum." is also incorrect because nature doesn't abhor anything. Also objects don't 'tend' to remain at rest or in motion as they have no disposition.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Prosecutors are urging he be sentenced at the lower end of guidelines...

As they will for everyone.

[Rossami]

The hypocrisy of that line jumped out at me, too. Crooked cops deserve to be prosecuted at the top end of the guidelines - every time. The aggravating factor is not the crime or the direct harm to victims but the breach of public trust.

There will be no justice until the law enforcement community starts holding itself accountable.

[Fist of Etiquette]

They were doing it supposedly to get a plea in a different case with the same cop, however that's not how prosecutors normally act with civilians. They pile on the charges until it overwhelms the defendant with the possible sentence if a guilty verdict is reached.

[Jerryskids]

A "former" Louisville police officer. That means the union is not backing him up. Which means they have him dead to rights. No leniency.

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[mad.casual]

“Wilson caused his victims untold psychological trauma, not only by extorting them and publishing their explicit photographs and videos online, but also by demeaning and insulting them during his text exchanges,”

Given that these women kept sexually explicit photos on their phones, ‘untold’ presumably refers to the simple ‘not said out loud’ definition and not the ‘unable to be captured by words’ definition.

It’s 2022. LEOs, school officials, employers, hackers, angry exes, etc., etc. have been exploiting nudes on phones for something like two decades. In the 90s (and long before), Playboy (a dead tree magazine full of naked girls for those too young to know) did a regular spread of ‘Girls of the Big 10 (etc.)’ and they would run interviews about the girls' stories. Multiple times, girls would talk about how they discussed being approached by Playboy with their parents before doing the shoot. Leverage averted… by college girls. Develop a sense of self-worth, go pro, or don’t pose, get a fucking clue.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

How about don't extort people?

[Don't look at me!]

Just stop being attractive, I think is what he meant.

[mad.casual]

Man, I'm as much if not more of a male chauvinist as pretty much anyone on here and even I've got to admit, "A woman can either be attractive, or confident in her own sexuality, not both." is a pretty derisive statement.

I don't envy the women in your life, that's for sure.

[mad.casual]

How about don’t extort people?

Do you want me to use *your* definition of extorting people for sex or your ex-wives/girlfriend's definitions?

[Social Justice is neither]

Just pay for the Onlyfans like a normal pervert.

[Dillinger]

badge elevates him above normal

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Meh. Stealing and sharing sext photos and throwing drinks from a moving car? Sounds like normal spring break shenanigans.

[Brandybuck]

To protect and serve. I hope the serve time.

[Dillinger]

um, don't put nakes on your phone for cops and apple to steal?

[mad.casual]

Or, if you do, fully understand that there's a decent chance that anyone and everyone might see them. That that's the whole point of a telecommunications device.

[Dillinger]

fine by me I'm fully behind the tramp-it-up movement and their rights

[Brandybuck]

I have never understood why people keep naked pictures of htemselves around. Except maybe baby pictures.

My old roommate once gave me a whole bunch of nekked polaroids of his ex. She was a hawtie to be sure, but why the hell did she let all those photos be taken in the first place?

[mad.casual]

Again, if you're proud of your body and/or aren't ashamed of your own full partial nudity it makes sense to me. I don't get being proud enough to take a picture to send to someone but ashamed of them being sent to someone else beyond impoliteness or maybe offense, depending on the explicitness of the photo. I get how a nude of yourself to your boss from your own snapchat account could be a problem, but even then just the message "I want to have your babies." or "I hope you burn in hell." is pretty interchangeable and equally excusable (or not depending on your employment situtation).

[Dillinger]

we like to reminisce. thumbdrives are better than the cloud

[mad.casual]

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[Dillinger]

lol I'm more amateur filmmaker than painter.

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[Alanatswbell]

He should be sentenced at the highest level because he is/was an officer of the law and needs to be held to a HIGHER STANDARD!

[Longtobefree]

Based on applying second amendment logic to the first amendment, the issue is a lack of common sense phone control.
A few hundred dollars of training courses and license application fees and permit fees would have prevented all of this.
Remember, it is not the people involved, it is the evil devices alone.

[Wizard4169]

Also, we should hold phone makers and software companies accountable for not providing perfect security.