You might think you’ve already seen Kylie Jenner naked.
After all, you’ve seen her in just about every state of undress.
But in actuality, you’ve only seen Kylie partially nude.
Granted, you’ve seen her partially nude many, many times, but those tiny scraps of clothing make an important difference.
Though she’s come close on several occasions, Kylie has never actually posed nude.
(We don’t count the Kylie body paint photos. Liquid clothing is still clothing.)
Maybe someday, Kylie will pose completely naked.
Maybe she won’t.
But either way the important thing is that the decision is to be made by her, not some anonymous Internet creep.
Unfortunately, it’s 2017, which means privacy is an illusion, and we’re all just one ambitious hacker away from having the most intimate parts of our life made public.
That’s a lesson Kylie is learning the hard way this week, thanks to some opportunitstic pervs who have hacked her Snapchat and are threatening to release nude photos.
Fortunately, the attack is beyond lame, and the threats to post explicit images are probably empty.
One sure sign that there’s no real risk is that the hackers don’t seem to be after money, but instead want … followers?
“Follow for Kylie lipstick,” “RT for her nudes,” and “add for Kylie’s nudes.”
Yeah, sophisticated cyber-attackers usually go after more than retweets and likes.
Still, it’s a frightening reminder of what’s out there.
As the not at all funny but humorously named attack known as “the Fappening” reminded us, every single person who uses the Internet (so basically everyone) is vulnerable to having private information or images stolen.
And sadly, young models and actresses are especially at risk.
This time, it looks like Kylie won’t suffer anything worse than mild annoyance.
But who’s to say what might happen next time?
Talk of Kylie sex tapes and nude photos has been circulating for years (despite the fact that she’s only 19. The Internet is a gross place.), which means there’s a near-constant search going on.
Obviously, Kylie probably has the best cyber-security money can buy.
But sometimes, that’s simply not enought.