Reworded.
The celebrity pictures were the "attractive nuisance" in question that encouraged people to hack iCloud. Apple would be the one liable, if anyone,
if that tort applied. However, if you read the doctrine, blame shifts from the trespassers to the landowner ONLY IF certain conditions are met, chief among them being that there has to be a reasonable expectation that the trespassers are either ignorant of or unable to comprehend that what they are doing is wrong. I do not believe the trespassers would pass that test, in this case.
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No, I'm objectifying their
photographs. Which are...um, objects. And I'm placing blame on the breach
ers, not the breach
ees. It's really hard to say whether Apple or the celebrities are the "victims" in this case, since technically
both were violated.
I'm kind of reminded of the
Maginot Line, in a way. The perpetrators did not attack the celebrities directly, instead they did so through a weakened intermediary.
--Patrick