I don’t necessarily think it’s at rest, doing so would exponentially increase your computing power. But it’s probably something like Windows a bit locker. Where the entire drive is encrypted when you turn it on, requiring a key to even boot. To steal a drive, the power would be disconnected. Or some other thing to trigger a shut down/require the key.

I’ve always found that just didn’t sit right, mainly because it just seemed too coordinated. I would understand maybe a few celebrities. Maybe a couple dozen photos. Spread out over months. Instead we got 500+ pictures dropped in a single night of every mainstream celebrity from Emma Watson to Avril Lavigne, even Vanessa Hudgens and Jennifer Lawrence. Then months later, got a second drop of a few hundred more. There were 4 fappenings total, the pirate bay showing a 7.2 GB zipped file.

I don’t discount the social engineering aspect of it, it’s just that you would have to have behind the scenes at least a dozen people with the charisma of Ted Bundy to pull this off in the time frame all these photos were hacked. That could have all happened though.

But compare that to the alternative. Some hackers exploit a flaw in iCloud and drop the fappening. Until Apple patched the security flaw, even if it was only a few days, people now knew there was a flaw, and exploited it

Unfortunately though the vast majority of that is going to be cargo. If I remember right, the US has no airline that currently flies a 747

You’re telling me you don’t want to sign up on a website, then 13 years from now randomly get something like $2.50 from a class action lawsuit?