Let’s assume Dick hasn’t shared the pic with anyone. He got it through email or sms text.
What are the odds that there is some no name guy working in a computer room somewhere that handles internet traffic taking a gander at it?
I’m not talking about an outside force hacking the system. I’m talking about the likelihood of someone with in the system seeing said pics?
Just currious. Don’t need answer fast. 
I thought that when something is sent over the net, it gets broken up into packets, and there’s no guarantee all the packets will take the same route to the destination, where they’re reassembled?
There’s really no one in the system at that level. No one is actively looking at traffic; the volume is just too great. If someone is monitoring the traffic from or to a specific origin or destination then it’s more likely, but absent that I don’t think anyone actually puts eyes on any random traffic, let alone images. And with various encryption methods it’s quite easy to ensure that no one who intercepts an image could actual see it anyway.
Any provider of email services could quite easily grant themselves permission to get into your mailbox and snoop, but it’s pretty unlikely to be happening on a widespread routine basis, just because it would be hugely labour intensive and there’s no real profit in it.
The Internet! It’s not tubes, it’s like a film processing studio.
What are the chances? x/y. X is the number of nude pictures that are sent over the on-line e-mail providers (say, a billion), and Y is the number of people along the way who have the capability, the motivation and the opportunity to look at one of a perfect stranger who is absolutely meaningless. (say, a hundred)
x/y = ten-million.
The Dick Pic Drake equation? I’m going to pull data out of my ass as well and simply state that your answer is 99.99999% bullshit. It would have been higher, but X and Y are real letters, so I gave you some credit.
As a person who has access to literally hundreds of thousands of mailboxes at any given moment*, that’s pretty much it. I could run a script to just sift through and find the image attachments and store them somewhere. But I have an actual job, and interesting things to do that fall within the boundaries of that, which I can talk about at my yearly review if I had time to do all of those interesting things. If I had time to finish them, then I might think about writing the snooper script that would only apply to the particular environment I have access to. But even then, it’d only be really useful if I was able to sift its output with some sort of reliable ‘naked people finder’. That’s already sounding like a job. Plus there’s free porn to be found, well, everywhere.
And really, only people who know who the hell Jane or Dick are wants to see them naked, specifically. For most of the public, they aren’t anything particularly titillating.
Plus, almost all email is stupid. I’ve had to glance at far too many people’s email for troubleshooting purposes. I can’t think of any time that I’ve been interested in the content for any reason other than identifying spam that should have been caught. I hate your email.
*And trust me, I’m not even really a guppy. I’m more of a blue-green lichen in this food chain. There are whales and sharks out there.
Just to reiterate what Bear_Nenno said, this answer is completely made up and bears no relation to the reality of technology or anything else.
One place it might happen is the email is to or from a place of work or business. Some places have monitoring tools to look for things like porn and non-business related email. In that case having someone else look at it might be the least of your problems.
At least one person. The photographer, and most likely Jane if she didn’t take it, but not a guarantee.
This is the correct answer. The odds could range from essentially zero for something like GMail where there’s incredible volume and no reason for individuals to be randomly viewing email*, to very high for a work email at a very secure or paranoid business.
What, blind people can’t send selfie dick pics / tit pics?
“Ten million” is not a probability. Also, do you seriously imagine that a billion nude pictures are sent via email? (In what time period?) Maybe a billion nude pictures get viewed on browsers looking at web sites…but via personal email? No way.
Also, your equation is foolish, because enlarging the denominator – the number of people who have the capacity to look – reduces the chance, instead of increasing it! You fail even to set up the equation in a sensible fashion!
The answer is Jane, Dick, and all of Dick’s friends.
I know, I know: you said that Dick hadn’t shared it. But do you really trust that guy?
Dont forget all of Jane’s ex-boyfriends, and all of their friends
Well, Jane seems to like Dick. So I’m sure he’s a stand up guy.
See Dick run!
Run, Dick, run!
See Jane look.
Look, Jane, look!
Dick sees Jane look.
Jane looks at Dick’s dick.
Jane, Jane, Jane!
Dick, Dick, Dick!
– Scott Foresman
That is bound to be a highly controversial way to encourage children to learn to read.
Probabilities
Non-work email - effectively near zero
Work servers email - very low but possible depending on what work server owner wants flagged and the monitoring software being used.
Dick is at the bar after work with some buddies. New guy is showing bikini and topless pics of his gorgeous GF taken on vacation in Barbados. Dick has had a few and thinks Jane’s rack is pretty damn good for a 35 year old woman, better than new guys GF’s for sure. Other guys are covering up young guys phone shots with “oohs” and “ahs”… “Shots for everyone” some says" - Probability 50/50
The point of my reply was that you need to estimate two values to determine the “odds”. One value (x) is the number of such pictures sent, and the other (y) is the number of them that are actually consciously viewed by a human third party. In other words, x/y. X is an astronomically large number, and Y is insignificantly small, so the chances are very very close to zero, no mater what realistic values you give to x and y.
It is similar to the odds that if I email you my street address, my house will be broken into by a thief who intercepted the email.