Because people have been told that “the cloud” was super secure and data could never be lost or hacked etc. People were actually stupid enough to believe that.
“Because people have been told that “the cloud” was super secure and data could never be lost or hacked etc. People were actually stupid enough to believe that.”
And, moreover, those photos were purportedly deleted by the owners long ago. The idea being, if we delete them, they will be gone, and we won’t have to worry about them.
Not so on iCloud, apparently. You delete them on your phone, and OOPS, a year from now you find them on 4chan and Reddit.
Maybe that $19B for WhatsApp makes sense after all.
Hard to say.
...and a lot of people do things that I would never, ever do - such as bank and billpay online. NFW.