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In reply to the discussion: There is no moral difference between blaming a woman for having her pics stolen, or for being raped. [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)If you are on a sidewalk protected by a stone wall, that would be considered low risk to a car hitting you.
Much lower risk than putting anything in the cloud and having it stolen.
It's not just about women and sexual assault- did you not see my above posts about car theft and other crimes. There are steps, all of us, can take to reduce our risk of being a crime victim. Pointing that out is not victim blaming, it's pointing out facts.
A great example is I responded to a burglary where guns were stolen. They were in a locked gun cabinet- the kind with a glass front. So needless to say while the victim did have them locked up the security was crappy.
Was he to blame for the thieves stealing his guns? No- the thieves were, they commuted the crime and were 100% to blame.
But despite that, had he had the guns locked in a real safe they would not have been stolen, because the thieves were teenagers who didn't have the ability to open a safe.
That a safe would have provided better security and stopped the theft is a simple fact. I don't think anyone would disagree that keeping guns in a real safe is far smarter than in a glass front case.
That a safe is more secure is fact. Pointing that fact out does not assign blame.
Same in this case- that there are for more secure ways to store sensitive data than a mass-market commercial cloud service is a fact. Pointing that out isn't assigning blame, despite the desperate attempts at some to label any discussion of what a person can do to avoid crime as "victims blaming".