Another series of Paris Hilton images is all over the ‘net. Apparently, her T-Mobile Sidekick account had been hacked. According to the Gizmodo post, “the Sidekick II stores copies of all its data on T-Mobile’s servers … [though] there is a rumor going around that her password was conned out of her.”

Another post of note, “The Collected Works of Paris Hilton’s Hacked Sidekick” at Gawker.com, states quite frankly that …

Contrary to popular belief, the simple point-and-shoot technique is not the best way to make memories with your T-Mobile Sidekick cameraphone. As Gawker’s resident tech guru Paris Hilton demonstrates, you actually need to take off your shirt and suck face with the nearest female in order for the Sidekick to perform at its fullest potential. Study the images for yourself and practice with a friend!

Hahaha! Makes me think about the slew of sex-video features that had been doing the rounds in local showbiz talk shows and tabloids in the past few weeks (links here, here, here, and here). Talk about gossip! As I mentioned in a J Spot post last November 2004,

”… the fact remains that many of our kababayans (countrymen) are starstruck … It’s a sad reality that many of us would rather turn towards showbiz, in effect shying away from the realities and problems of life, political ones included. Consider the proliferation of showbiz-oriented talk and reality-based shows …”

Perhaps many of our netizens are also starstruck, with the way people feast on such juicy pieces of gossip (am I one of them? Naah … I just so happened to read the Gizmodo post browsing through my RSS feeds at Bloglines. Or am I?).

_{(Speaking of sex-videos, last year saw the proliferation of various “scandal” videos where an alleged coed from a prestigious university and a friend had videotaped themselves doing the act … but that’s another story, which I will perhaps write on some other time. Related story here.)}

The Gizmodo post puts it quite bluntly that ”… we care about privacy, unless it’s the privacy of someone famous …” Sound advice for famous people, indeed. But I would rather follow the advice of the “Pugad Baboy” character “Polgas” in today’s Inquirer comic strip:

The character in the first two frames advises those who intend to take sex-videos to:

1. Immediately transfer the files from the mobile phone to a PCs via bluetooth, and then subsequently delete the file from the phone, and






2. Immediately burn the files onto CD, and then subsequently delete from PC.

The advice of Polgas, the dog, is simpler and foolproof, though: “don’t take sex-videos!”

Lessons learned:

1. Don’t take photos/videos you would later on regret taking.








2. If you’d rather not follow #1, at least store your incriminating videos somewhere safe.

Unless you’re Paris Hilton, I guess these two bits of sound advice wouldn’t be too difficult to follow.

Ah, the pitfalls of technology.

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