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meet dan ackerman, ceo. dan, thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> is there a home run they hit with this apple product line? >> i think it's that they caught up to where they need to be. they're outdated in the last couple years, it was a much smaller screen. a lot of people flipped over to the android phones with the bigger screens. a lot of people like the bigger screen. you can put a whole calendar on it, read books on it real easily, and the little 3-inch iphone screen just wasn't keeping up with the times. >> i was impressed with the whole apple payments line. that's pretty cool, the idea that i could shop easily like i do on amazon. >> that's not as big as having a hard product like a wrist watch or a phone, but that can really help digital payments. people have been trying to get into that digital wallet area. if apple can keep a cohesive view of it, that it works in all the apple stores you go into, that's really huge. the process of carrying plastic cards is kind of archaic. >> it is arch

let's bring in tech writer and friend natalie morris and dan ackerman.ie, faster chip, faster speeds and also as you point out, an upgrade to the ios operating system that will now make it more sympatico with i d ipads, right? >> they had to redo this because they were opening the screen up. the question is, is it eating into the tablet market now. it will be like the ios for the mini. when you turn it, it will be a completely different experience and make for that landscape to be used most efficiently. so, yeah, we're kind of putting it -- there's something smackdown of the mini and i phone. >> let's turn to you. from what you have heard about these two new phones, do you think that they will cause people to go out and buy? >> i think that's the thing that's happened to apple. people saw the big screen phones and they said, oh, i'm going to get one of these but said if apple has a bigger screened phone, maybe i'll switch back. if the contract is up this fall and ready to go back with a samsung year for a year or two. >> does anybody, natalie, do a produ

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. >> reporter: c-net editor dan ackerman says people should never treat their pictures and on line activity as 100 percent private. >> it is impossible to bullet-proof your life where you share so much stuff and cloud services which are great for backing up information and keeping it safe and accessing from it different macees, but it is out there somewhere. >> reporter: some celebrities respond the to the leak photos. jennifer lawrence put out a statement quote thinks a flagrant violation of privacy. authorities have been contacted, and will prosecute anyone who post s the stolen photos of jennifer lawrence. so how can you protect your pictures from hackers? ackerman suggest to use different pass words for different accounts. check privacy settings, and opt out of cloud sharing, and change your pass word frequently, and use a two store verification system. >> if you want to change something with your account, you get a text message you have to respond to or with a coat and that makes sure that you have to physically have your phone with you in order to make a big change tour account. >> re

. >> c net senior editor dan ackerman says it's not just celebrities at risk. >> it's almost impossible to bullet proof your life. we share so much stuff and use cloud services. it does add to the vulnerability because it out there somewhere. >> in this case it appears hackers accessed a cloud based storage system and stole the images. apple reportedly patched anism cloud security gap following the breach, but ackerman says the photos likely came from all kinds of devices not justism phones. to protect yourself, he suggests these tips. use different passwords for different accounts. check privacy settings. opt out of cloud sharing. change your password frequently and use a two step verification system. in the meantime some celebrities are reacting to the leak. publicist for oscar win are in jennifer lawrence released a statement calling it a quote flagrant violation of privacy. >> those hackers claim to have more photos but the authenticity of those image has not been confirmed. >> there is an important food recall you need to know about before you make lunch yourself or your children.

cnet's dan ackerman in studio 57 with how the images were accessed, and what you can do to protect sensitivetion. and a man accused of planning drugs on pta volume up tear as act of revenge, legal analyst joins with us weather my wife made me do it, is a legal strait edge that i can hold up in court. the news is back in the morning, we'll see you all in about ten minutes. >> how about that? >> i never heard that before. >> than the any, thanks so much. talk to you soon. >> rough return to racing for nascar driver tony stewart. >> stewart got warm welcome from fans in at lan tax but failed to finish the race after hitting the wall several times. it is stewart's first time back on the track since his car hit and killed another driver three weeks ago. he left the track without talking to reporters. >>> by the way those race care drivers dodge an obstacle, see something darting across the track right there. >> the spot shadow in one of the drivers thought it was a cat. turns out it was a squirrel that nearly became road kill. somehow it got on that track, the squirrel safely made it, though, to

dan ackerman, senior editor at "cnet." your pace in "the atlantic" was great. this is a violation. it's not sexual assault in a legal sense, it's something adjacent to that. >> right. the reason people are seeking out these pictures, the reason that they're so titillating, the reason they're appealing is because precisely because they're nonconsensual. there are plenty of pictures of naked women on the internet. they're not hard to find. these women put up pictures voluntarily. we're seeking out the ones women didn't want and says something about our culture and the way people still feel entitled to women's sexuality whether we want them to or not. >> it's a clear violation in the deepest sense, and now -- it's not just celebrities. i mean, that's the important point here. this is the tip of the iceberg on a phenomenon that's happening to women from your local high school, through, you know, someone that you work with. this is a real thing that happens. >> right. when it happens to people who aren't celebrities we call it revenge porn, right? there are laws around it. this is happe

dan ackerman is in stu57 with how the images were accessed and what you can do to protect sensitive informationsed of planting drugs on a pta volunteer as an act of revenge. legal analyst ricky klieman joins us with whether my wife made me do it is a legal strategy that can hold up in court. the news is back in the morning. we'll see you all in a little bit. >> wow. that's a wild story. thanks, anthony. >>> russian president vladimir putin is talking for immediate talks with ukraine over the crisis in eastern ukraine. >> it comes after eu leaders met for a summit to discuss economic sanctions against russia, pro russian separatists have been battling ukrainian forces to months. some politicians here at home say the europe and the u.s. should provide arms to the ukrainians to help them defend themselves. dozens of ukrainians gathered outside the white house protesting the russian invasion of ukraine and demanding strong actions by the u.s. and europe. they called on president obama to provide military assistance to ukraine, including equipment and supplies. >>> nearly two months of israeli air s

. >> reporter: dan ackerman is from cnet.s getting us quotes to show what some websites are willing to pay you forrior old phones. >> does it power up, display is good, buttons are good. >> reporter: as an example he gets quotes for 16 gig iphone 5. gazelle.com offers him as much as $240 cash. usell.com up to $250 cash. amazon, as much as $283. but in the form of an amazon gift card. and the highest offer comes from apple itself. their recycling program offering up to $310. as an apple gift card. what should you look out for when trying to sell your cell? you can get more if you put it on craigslist or ebay. there you are dealing directly with the buyers. there's always a chance of fraud. >> reporter: craigslist telling us it provides a number of tips to users to prevent fraud, including you should always meet the buyer in a public place in person. and ebay saying nothing is more important than providing a safe, secure shopping experience. and that it offers its users a money back guarantee and stands debe hei behind every tr

. >> reporter: dan ackerman c net's senior editor said the combination of low-cost equipment and far-reaching to fuel this dangerous trend. >> people just see so much online. they're so hungry for something new, something interesting. >> reporter: the white flag stunt performed on new york city's bridge in mid-july brought mainstream attention to what is a subculture. two german artists took credit for swapping out two american flags with two white flags. a month later, a russian photographer was trying to take a selfie. it brings focus to security at the brooklyn bridge and the people who now scale buildings and bridges for a thrill and snapshot. >> what's the next step what does somebody has to push themselves to next in order to get attention for daring selfies and they become more commonplace. >> the reason these daredevil, instagramers do this seem to range to straight-up thrill seeking to artists looking for that one of a kind shot. >> and a lot of people -- a lot of russians by the way, huge in russia. >> so far, nobody's been seriously hurt. >> not that we know. >> yeah. i think it's

. >> reporter: dan ackerman is at cnet.o show what some websites are willing to pay you for your old phones. >> it asks you a bunch of questions. powers up. buttons are good. enclosures are good. >> reporter: as an example, he gets quotes for 16 gigabyte iphones 5 and 5s. in good condition. gazelle.com offers him up to $240 cash. amazon, as much as $283, but in the form of am amazon gift card. and the highest offer comes from apple itself. their recycling program offering up to $310 as an apple gift card. >> you get the money pretty much right away. they handle the billing and all the shipping. everything like that. i think that convenience is worth it. >> reporter: what should you look out for when trying to sell your cell? >> you can definitely get a little bit more if you put it on craigslist or put it on ebay. there you're dealing directly with the buyer. so there's always a chance of fraud. >> reporter: craigslist provides tips to users, including that you should meet the buyer in a public place in person. and ebay say

joining me now salamishah tillet at the university of pennsylvania, dan ackerman, senior editor at cnet.commargaret carpenter, and david, who is professor of law at seton hall university and director of the gibbons institute in law, science and technology. so nice to have you all here. so is this a women's story? is this a story about feminism and women's unique vulnerability? >> yes and no. i think it's a ma debate that's going on for decades. for those, like you, share photos freely or we think we're sharing them within an intimate setting and we actually don't know what is happening with the data and we're not necessarily as concerned with the repercussions of it because we aren't celebrities whose nude photos are being exploited and exploded in the mass public. facebook is about to release a new privacy checkup for all users. there's an illusion on the one hand the checkup to say how are our photos being used? who has access to them? the real problem is facebook is selling our information to major corporations and we're not necessarily concerned with that. the illusion is it's dissemina