{"id":702,"date":"2014-10-13T21:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T02:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-10-13T21:48:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T02:48:23","slug":"thoughts-on-the-celeb-leaks-part-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Celeb Leaks, Part IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An endless labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>That is my impression after yesterday.  Right now, I have over 20 tabs open on my browser, all of them waiting for updates.  Chatrooms, message boards, IMs, IRC clients, Tor pages, pastebins, download clients, reddit threads, email accounts\u2026 and others.  It just doesn\u2019t end.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, only one of the communications I\u2019ve had with the big name leakers has borne fruit.  I spent three hours persuading one of them to give me an unleaked full set of C-lister Ashley Blankenship, which I thought I would be able to use to leverage myself into a better position with the other traders\u2026 only to have the set leaked by someone else a few hours later.  <\/p>\n<p>So now I\u2019m back to square one.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good thing that I\u2019ve kept a store of good, unleaked amateur galleries.  They make good currency in these situations.  I had to trade a couple of these and lie a ton to get the Ashley set\u2026 but I guess it was worth it for the experience.<\/p>\n<p>I think.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, I\u2019ve yet to even get an accounting of names for the rare, high value sets.  I\u2019ve heard rumors, but only rumors, of Dianna Agron and Taylor Swift.  And even Emma Stone and JLH.  I\u2019ve offered up much only for names, and not even pictures, but have been shot down every time.<\/p>\n<p>Damn.<\/p>\n<p>The message boards change their rules every day as the situation changes.  Email addresses change every other day.  Onion pages come and go.  Chatrooms will open and close literally every hour, even when I\u2019m at work.<\/p>\n<p>The picture sets themselves are riddled with fakes, misdirections and unknowables.  I\u2019ve still yet to inspect a number of supposed \u201cJennifer Lawrence\u201d and \u201cMcKayla Maroney\u201d pictures.  I\u2019ll get to those later.  And who are those other girls in the Kate Upton set?  I\u2019ve never seen any of them before.  <\/p>\n<p>Complicating things is the fortunate reality that many things are being leaked that the media is not revealing, and that even the major traders and leakers seem to have no idea of the existence of.  I\u2019m convinced that some of the \u201cfake\u201d images are not really fake.  I\u2019ve talked about this a bit before, but for now, I\u2019ll keep my current knowledge of these \u201chidden\u201d leaks to myself.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a labyrinth.  There\u2019s too much to keep track of but I hope it doesn\u2019t end.  I MUST see this to the end.  I\u2019ve come so far and what\u2019s been started must be finished.  Everything will be different, but maybe that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I downloaded all of the pics and vids from the snapchat leaks too.  That\u2019s some interesting stuff.  I\u2019ll need time to go through it but a brief browsing of the leak\u2019s contents has made clear that the media was being too alarmist in it\u2019s prognostications of mass disseminations of illegal images. Everything I\u2019ve seen thus far has been 100% legal.  <\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to the last topic on my mind.  I\u2019ve thus far been able to avoid 99.99% of the illegal porn on the darknet.  Well done, self.  But of course I stumble upon some, accidentally, once in a while.  That stuff is really frightening, isn\u2019t it?  <\/p>\n<p>Where does it even come from?  It\u2019s baffling.  I consider myself to be a jaded, desensitized person, but some of the images I\u2019ve seen over the past month have shocked even me.  Wow.  What in the <i>world<\/i>?  There must be studios set up somewhere for it\u2026 but how?  Where do they find\u2026 participants?  <\/p>\n<p>To be honest, the most shocking and unsettling parts of the images are the enthusiastic smiles of those \u201cparticipating\u201d.  The ropes and blindfolds, the graphic penetrations and abuse- that stuff is sick and disturbing but is information I can process.  Some people are just nuts.  Some are <i>extremely<\/i> nuts.  But the innocent, carefree smiles from the victims\u2026 that I don\u2019t get.  It runs counter to every notion I\u2019ve ever had of what is normal behavior for people.  Stockholm syndrome, perhaps?  Or do they just not understand?<\/p>\n<p>I am too curious for my own good, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll never know the answers to these questions as this is one of the few dark alleys I will never walk through.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll stick to celebs, thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An endless labyrinth. That is my impression after yesterday. Right now, I have over 20 tabs open on my browser, all of them waiting for updates. Chatrooms, message boards, IMs, IRC clients, Tor pages, pastebins, download clients, reddit threads, email accounts\u2026 and others. It just doesn\u2019t end. 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