# Creative/horrifying smartphone photos, to leave for hackers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-horrifying-smartphone-photos-to-leave-for-hackers/702729 "2014-10-28T12:05:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-horrifying-smartphone-photos-to-leave-for-hackers/702729/1 "2014-10-28T12:05:22Z")
I was just considering the recent smartphone hacking scandal the other day, and musing that I, personally, am not actually cool enough to have any nude photos on my phone, or much of any photos at all, aside from some nice clouds…but then recalled that, in fact, I did have some video files on there. Of a [simulated Soviet biological attack projection](https://www.youtube.com/v/NwAAW4G3xw0?start=205&end=210&autoplay=1) I’d been processing for a video project. :eek: Maybe if I were important enough for some jerk to want to hack, that’d at least give 'em a “nice” surprise. But that got me thinking: what are some other creative/horrifying pictures one might leave on a smartphone or cloud account, if they were a celebrity? Y’know, if you wanted to creep out a cracker, or maybe just to give the tabloid press something tougher to chew on than some ill-lit cheesecake? The only limitation: they have to be (at least arguably) _legal_ to produce. Ideas so far? •[Illicit photos of a nuclear weapons facility.](http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/mordechai-vanunu-photos-of-dimona/) (“Legal”? Well, they _were_ published in the Sunday Times almost 30 years ago, so the cat’s kinda out of the bag on that one.) •Fun with human cadavers—[cruelty-free cadavers!](http://syndaver.com/shop/syndaver/syndaver-synthetic-human-copy/) 😃 •Miscellaneous [monster,](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+rake+monster&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=ncR&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QoBPVIe7Kce1yATwyYCwCg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1141&bih=560) [ghost]([https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=Fz6&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=sb&biw=1141&bih=560&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=ghost+photo&oq=ghost+photo&gs\_l=img.3..0l10.17499.18094.0.18322.5.4.0.1.1.0.194.519.0j4](https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=Fz6&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=sb&biw=1141&bih=560&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=ghost+photo&oq=ghost+photo&gs_l=img.3..0l10.17499.18094.0.18322.5.4.0.1.1.0.194.519.0j4). 4.0…0…1c.1.56.img…0.5.522.MaB767kd1GA), or [cryptid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptids) photos. A few hours of photoshopping and/or some modelmaking would make a [secret selfie _deserving_ to be remembered](http://www.bigfootbuzz.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/killed-bigfoot-165x300.jpg). •[This.](http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/zombie_ronald_mcdonald.jpg) So…anyone else have any suggestions? Heck, it might be worth a chuckle or two. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-horrifying-smartphone-photos-to-leave-for-hackers/702729/2 "2014-10-28T13:30:49Z")
Seems like a real good way to get visited by very serious men with guns and absolutely no sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-horrifying-smartphone-photos-to-leave-for-hackers/702729/3 "2014-10-30T16:13:31Z")
Keep it simple – save a bunch of copies of goatse and lemonparty and whatnot under suggestive file names like NipSlip.jpg, Topless.jpg, FullMoon.jpg in a directory called something liike HawtSelfies. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-horrifying-smartphone-photos-to-leave-for-hackers/702729/4 "2014-10-31T06:26:36Z")
Pretty much anything drawn by Basil Wolverton. Start with Lena the Hyena. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to google up a link. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-horrifying-smartphone-photos-to-leave-for-hackers/702729/5 "2014-10-31T09:43:03Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Seems like a real good way to get visited by very serious men with guns and absolutely no sense of humor. Yeah, in a world where the cops are stupid enough to break into an innocent man’s house and kill him because a drug addict claims his drugs and paraphernalia were already in the car when he stole it, giving them an excuse is not a good idea.