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It's surprising that someone as wealthy and famous as Jeff Bezos would be storing such photos on his phone.

I already kind of treat my phone as though it's public domain. The amount of software which runs on most devices today is unfathomable. Keeping your devices completely secure seems almost impossible.



What do you suggest CEOs of big companies should use to communicate with other people? They need phones and laptops. If you trust it with company data why wouldn't you trust it with your private data? It's nice to separate the two but that's besides the point.


Billionaires get nlowjobs at shady Florida massage parlors for $100. Why would it surprise you they use their phones for dick pics?


There are 7 billion people in the world. That number is incomprehensible. When a large portion of those know who you are, you cannot possibly assume that you live anything close to a normal life. Everyone around you must be trying to blackmail or manipulate you... Heck, even the people manipulating you probably have other people manipulating them behind the scenes.

You can't trust anyone or anything. I already feel like this now as a regular person. If I was a billionaire, I would probably never leave my mansion and I'd fire all the house staff. You just can't buy real trust; people will only pretend to be trustworthy.

When you're a public figure, you become surrounded by the best actors in the world. These people are in a different league than what you see in Hollywood and they all want a piece of you.


You need technology to conduct business. Just like many people need to drive, even though it is rather dangerous to drive or ride in a car.

There are very few reasons to take and store naked photos of yourself on your phone. So I submit that it's usually a bad idea to do so.


As someone who frequently takes and stores such photos, I would argue that mutual arousal between partners is an extremely strong human drive/need.

"I like things that make me feel good" is generally considered a very, very satisfactory reason by 99.999% of the population.

This is getting close to saying "Sexual intercourse is very dangerous. Outside of reproduction, there are very few reasons to have sexual intercourse, so I submit that it's usually a bad idea to do so."


>mutual arousal

I think there are probably better, safer ways to do that then taking and sending photos. Unless the thing that gets you worked up is the very likely danger that these photos are being collected and stored somewhere for others to see and or use against you.


He sent these photos to his lover. He may not necessarily have kept them after sending.


> Jeff Bezos would be storing such photos on his phone

Its not about being wealthy and famous its about knowing how information can be easily shared and never get deleted on the internet.

Bezos being the founder of Amazon, a company which exists just because of the internet should not have made that mistake.


Ive started doing this.

Treat everything as compromised.

I am always looking for new suggestions on where to hide 'Keys'.




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