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I don't see this as hacker-worthy -- it's mostly subreddit drama and reddit has banned people and subreddits which caused them bad PR before. My opinion aside,

I don't see this as hacker-worthy -- it's mostly subreddit drama and reddit has banned people and subreddits which caused them bad PR before. My opinion aside, here's the rough timeline of the events based on reddit posts: * the reddit blog post [1]; it has a timestamp of 2014/09/07 00:39 UTC. * which claims "approximately the same time, activity in that subreddit starting violating other rules we have which do trigger a ban"; * the actual time of the subreddit ban (based on [2], it happened more than 5 hours ago, so before 2014/09/07 02:16 UTC * the explanation of the bans [3], which (based on the time stamp) was posted 15 minutes ago, so around 2014/09/07 07:49 UTC. and here's the paragraph explaining the bans, also from [3]: > It became obvious that we were either going to have to watch these subreddits constantly, or shut them down. We chose the latter. It's obviously not going to solve the problem entirely, but it will at least mitigate the constant issues we were facing. This was an extreme circumstance, and we used the best judgement we could in response. The lesson here is probably "declaring support for specific subreddits while imposing new rules on them will never work, as the contributors to those subreddits will inevitably rebel". [1]: http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/every-man-is-responsible-for-his-own.html?m=1 http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/every-man-is-responsible-f... [2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2foqu1/reddit_bans_all_fappening_related_subreddits/ http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2foqu1/reddit_bans_all... [3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2fpdax/time_to_talk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2fpdax/time_...

anigbrowl 12y ago
It is subreddit drama but I think this celebrity nude photos story has legs not so much because it involves celebrities but because it encapsulates a few very real problems arising from our social technology, and highlighting the serious lack of good strategies available to anyone who finds themselves on the wrong end of a situation like this (and who doesn't have a celebrity's ability to hire expensive lawyers or put service providers on the spot). The stock responses to this problem are that you need to be responsible for your own security, encrypt everything and so on. Hackers need to wake up to the fact that most peopledo not want to do this. That's like trying to protect yourself against burglaries by putting deadbolt locks on every door inside your house as well as bolting the front door and installing bars on the windows, and then putting locks on all the drawers and cabinets as well. Nobody but hackers thinks this is a reasonable way to go about their lives. So absent some new proposals, there's either going to be regulation or a sea change in consumer behavior. There's a big disruptive opportunity for a company that takes consumer security deadly seriously but doesn't force its users to play secret agent ad exchange special coded handshakes all the time.

anigbrowl 12y ago

It is subreddit drama but I think this celebrity nude photos story has legs not so much because it involves celebrities but because it encapsulates a few very real problems arising from our social technology, and highlighting the serious lack of good strategies available to anyone who finds themselves on the wrong end of a situation like this (and who doesn't have a celebrity's ability to hire expensive lawyers or put service providers on the spot). The stock responses to this problem are that you need to be responsible for your own security, encrypt everything and so on. Hackers need to wake up to the fact that most peopledo not want to do this. That's like trying to protect yourself against burglaries by putting deadbolt locks on every door inside your house as well as bolting the front door and installing bars on the windows, and then putting locks on all the drawers and cabinets as well. Nobody but hackers thinks this is a reasonable way to go about their lives. So absent some new proposals, there's either going to be regulation or a sea change in consumer behavior. There's a big disruptive opportunity for a company that takes consumer security deadly seriously but doesn't force its users to play secret agent ad exchange special coded handshakes all the time.