Posts Tagged hacking

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By Sesali B. • 8 years ago

One man has pled guilty for his part in the hack/leak of celebrity nudes

Too many times, we’ve seen the internet function as a cesspool of creeps who harass, stalk, and violate the privacy of people, often women, by sharing compromising or otherwise private media for the world to see. Law enforcement is rarely helpful when these kinds of cases are reported — in part because of thick cloak of anonymity that trolls often hide themselves under — but Ryan Collins will not be able to get off so easily.

Too many times, we’ve seen the internet function as a cesspool of creeps who harass, stalk, and violate the privacy of people, often women, by sharing compromising or otherwise private media for the world to see. Law ...

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By Ava Kofman • 8 years ago

Feministing Reads: Elissa Shevinsky’s Lean Out

What difference would it make to our tech industry if its underrepresented members leaned in or leaned out? After reading the recent collection of essays on the topic from OR Books, I wasn’t so sure.

What difference would it make to our tech industry if its underrepresented members leaned in or leaned out? After reading the recent collection of essays on the topic from OR Books, I wasn’t so sure.

By Lori Adelman • 11 years ago

Speaking of rape jokes…

*Trigger warning*

I appreciate all of the conversation happening around LOLZRapeGate2012. I really do. Never has there been such a potent mix of characters – somehow strange and stereotypical — thrown into the same spotlight. Daniel Tosh, bloggers, rapists, Louis CK, Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman, humorless feminists, and hilarious feminists alike are all finding themselves drawing, erasing, and then redrawing the lines of their boundaries around what it means to be funny, politically correct, and socially responsible. In my eyes, that’s a net positive, and in fact much of the dialogue that emerged from Tosh’s terrible “joke” has been really important and is certainly adding to the national, and maybe even global, dialogue around rape culture.

That being said, ...

*Trigger warning*

I appreciate all of the conversation happening around LOLZRapeGate2012. I really do. Never has there been such a potent mix of characters – somehow strange and stereotypical — thrown into the same spotlight. Daniel ...