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A Cute Internet Star Flirts. All He Wants Is Your Password

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So now that we have a pattern lending legitimacy, I guess it would be pretty convenient for the next person that hacks a celebs account to get a lot more milage out of his hack.. Didn't he just put an extra incentive out there for everyone to attempt to hack celebrities even more as an 'amplification' method ?

Absolutely love it.

Adults telling kids about not sharing passwords and how the world will fall in if they do.

So what do they do, share passwords.

Adults have been so propagandized about not sharing them it's actually a good/funny act of defiance.

Are you... are you trying to suggest that there is nothing wrong with sharing passwords with strangers?

Well there was this guy from my hometown who shared his facebook password to strangers on parties. You never knew what would appear on his facebook account after weekends.

You could argue that's smart as long as you don't use Facebook to log in to anything else. He can say whatever he wants and now one can be sure it's him.

It's certainly no jumping off a bridge.

Rebellion is more fun when there's a spark of risk, anyway. Doesn't mean there's much risk.

I could share my twitter password with a major brand. The worst case scenario is pretty minor.

I wouldn't do it, but this was the funniest instance of someone sharing his passwords I've ever listened to:

http://youtu.be/Tan8_aDWX78

Who is seriously worried about their Vine account getting owned?

Probably those who use the same password everywhere.

There's nothing wrong with it if they are unique and if your accounts are well compartmentalized I guess...

i'd encourage users to consider security, that private on the internet has a new meaning, it's more ephemeral than the word's previous usage

if they take up Stephen Fry's call for youth to refuse to have an email account things could get fun :)

Genuinely curious on this reference. Do you have the reference to where/when Stephen Fry made this call/suggestion? (I'm interested in reading it.)

a pleasure, this guy is smart and witty :) http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/04/off-the-grid/

It sounds hip and rebellious; but imagine some day in the future when some hot-sounding very real looking person pulls the same when there actually is no actual human on the other end. Though still nascent I can already do a little bit of that myself with people who move (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnATwZgmI2I -- a whole new ironic twist to "Reality" :)) and voices that were hijacked like the Terminator did in the movies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akuwibl-0BM HAL and SAL -- both me) or (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lBrtdCpXw0 -- both the pictures and voices of the guy and that sexy Lydia girl are me) or (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqk17F2kghc -- same deal with the voices) or (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEzPb9YAeo -- keep your panties on girls that's not Tom Jones nor any male human at all). There are others who can undoubtedly go much further than that with much more sophisticated results. But even with what you see here you already have the baseline for bona fide Artificial Reality. So when that Tom Jones clone or souped up hot Lydia chick comes around asking you to give up your password be careful ... for it might be me or someone more advanced than me in disguise. (And by the way, thanks for the idea. :))

It's all fun and games until somebody with less noble intentions hacks his account to access all those passwords. I'm sure somebody's working on it.

Wow. Next time a friend gives me their key to get into their house, I really hope they don't call it breaking and entering.

he should ask them to install aggressive adware - the ultimate fan experience

I dunno, ransomware's probably more flirty in situations like these.

  hey baby, you stole my heart. give it
  back or i'll never decrypt your system. 

  <3 <3 <3 <3

"but most of all, samy is my hero

Wasn't that a JS injection and not anything to do with passwords?

Kids these days.

Haven't changed from old ages...when they had just posters to watch all day long

Find his personal cell number, add it as a 2FA and then send him your password.

Oh boy... Will those people, at least, change their passwords after that?

Why would they? What if he comes back to post another video?

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