Working...

And it is working.

Private...*

Sportscaster Erin Andrews won a $55 million judgment against a stalker and the owner of a Nashville hotel. The stalker filmed Andrews by removing door peepholes and aiming a cell phone camera into her room and recorded secret nude videos of her and posted on the internet.

Andrews took the stand, tearfully describing the humiliation of knowing millions of people had watched the footage and of being harassed online and in public.

The hotel's owner, West End Hotel Partners argued that the stalker alone was responsible for the crimes.  Also argued that Andrews' continued professional success.
The jury accepted Andrews's contention that the whole incident wouldn't have happened had the hotel staff not been careless in:

(1) telling  [the stalker] that Andrews was a guest at that hotel; 
(2) disclosing her room number; and 
(3) granting Barrett's request to be placed in a room next to hers. 

This is serious business. The hotel should respected her privacy. Just a thought.

Disappearing...*

Snapchat is a messaging app that allows the sharing of videos and images that "disappear" after just a few seconds.   It offers a sense of privacy by promising it will erase photos.  It is popular as a tool for sending nude images by the users who are mostly teenagers.

Lately, hackers had boasted of having access to 13 gigabytes' (GB) worth of pictures that had been intercepted over a number of years.   Speculation as to the source of the leak has pointed towards two third-party, unauthorized services that offered the ability to save Snapchat messages permanently.
 
At the start of this year, 4.6m usernames and phone numbers were leaked online. More recently, the service has been suffering from spam messages being sent out from users' accounts without their knowledge.

The hack of third-party apps reveals another flaw in Snapchat's platform and questions the company's commitment to security.     Snapchat isn't doing enough to protect its software. That's why third-party apps can hack its platform and your very private nude images.

Whatever messages, nude pictures and videos etc. sent will come back to bite you in your naked then fat butt.  Just a thought.

Cell...*

The Tide...*

t’s easy to see parallels between President Donald Trump and France’s presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. They’re both populist politicians who have railed against free trade, talk tough on immigration, have questioned the role of NATO, and advocate closer ties to Russia.

Anderson Cooper interviewed Le Pen for this week’s 60 Minutes.
“It’s too easy to just say Marine Le Pen is France’s Donald Trump, It’s not that simple.”

“She’s a fascinating character,” Cooper says. A character sees herself as part of a growing tide of nationalism that is skeptical of free trade and open borders sweeping the West, after Britain’s vote to leave the E.U. and the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S.

Le Pen says this “savage globalization” has ravaged France’s economy, stripped France of its sovereignty and led to an influx of immigrants that she believes are changing the national character of the country.

She advocates much tougher immigration laws, and a radical shift in France’s foreign policy, including renegotiating its place in the European Union, or else holding a referendum to leave altogether.   It is not a person, its the people.  [original post on 3/6/2017]

Binge...

A former DJ-corporate-fraud prosecutor carried out the “most serious” example of public corruption by a U.S. Department of Justice attorney in years.

An attorney for a California company tipped off the FBI to an approach by Wertkin who had offered to sell a sealed federal lawsuit for $310,000 to the Silicon Valley technology company

After his arrest, Jeffrey Wertkin embarked on an “obstruction binge” at his private law office to destroy additional evidence and tried to frame a former colleague at the Justice Department for the records theft, court files show.

Wertkin  stole and copied dozens of files taking some at night from his boss’s desk copying them and then reached out to targeted companies in four states to try to drum up business for himself.  Wertkin joined Akin Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as a $450,000-a-year partner.

Hitman...

Former Florida escort convicted of trying to hire a hit man to murder her newlywed husband was sentenced to 16 years in prison,  ending a drawn-out case that drew notice for its startling videos and salacious characters.

Dalia Dippolito was recorded on video and audio in 2009 as she plotted to have Michael Dippolito killed, telling an undercover detective she was "5,000 percent sure" she wanted her husband dead.

Prosecutors believe she wanted control of the couple's town house and her husband's savings.  

Defense attorney Craig Rosenfeld unsuccessfully argued for probation, saying Dalia Dippolito had lived an "exemplary life" and she should not be judged by "the worst moment of her life." After the hearing, he said he respected Kelley's sentence but an appeal is planned.

Stick with what you know. Just a thought.

Little One...*

"The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell."
Safety of the little one are now front and center.

ICU...*

Emotional Hack...*

Federal prosecutor Wesley Hsu is working cases with an emphasis on the exposure of scandalous selfies and sextortion. They call the crimes “emotional hacking” and the men responsible “cyber terrorists.”

Michael Barrett, an Illinois insurance executive, secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews.

Barrett admitted renting hotel rooms next to Andrews three times and shooting two videos of her while she was naked. He was accused of posting the videos online and trying to sell them to Los Angeles-based celebrity gossip site.

He pleaded guilty to interstate stalking and was sentenced to 2½ years in prison after giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim.

This image posted here are available on line but the nude videos were not. Some may consider it as nude enough but the issue is .... Stalking and Sextortion.