This Paris Hilton cracked Sidekick story just doesn’t seem to die:

Juicy, celebrity-drenched data from the spacey “Simple Life” star’s trendy Sidekick — including hoards of personal phone numbers of stars, gossipy e-mails and apparently raunchy photos of the hotel heiress herself — were splashed on the ‘Net after a hacker seemingly broke through security at T-Mobile’s user Web site and siphoned off her information.

I wasn’t going to comment on it because Paris Hilton gets so much press for being ignorant that it’s silly. First of all, in this day and age, one shouldn’t give out personal phone numbers or sensitive personal information to anyone except family and very close friends. Business numbers? Promotion, baby!

I have a hard time believing that Paris Hilton was close friends with the 500 or so people she had in her cracked Sidekick. Especially if you are a celebrity, why would you trust giving your number to somebody like Paris Hilton who is not particularly well known for discretion and privacy (IE. public sex tape scandals)? Why not give a business number? Perhaps a trusted representative that could forward on the legitimate calls?

It’s certainly criminal that somebody cracked Hilton’s device and posted the important numbers on the internet and I hope those person(s) responsible are brought to justice, but don’t celebrities have to change their phone numbers frequently to keep away from rabid fans, anyway? Goes with the territory, in my mind. And with all the money Paris Hilton has: why hasn’t she hired a techie to help encrypt and share all her private data? It’s almost starting to smell to me like intentional PR. Wouldn’t that be something if it comes out that Paris made it all too easy for these leaks to occur … I don’t know anything of course and this is wild speculation, but what if?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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