Your humble blogger has occasionally prided himself as something of an authority on the intersection between celebrities and international relations. Which brings me to Jessica Biel.
Sure, the woman in the picture above these words seems pleasant enough, but according to McAfee security, she's not what she seems. This Reuters story by Belinda Goldsmith explains:
Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to internet security company McAfee Inc.
For the third consecutive year, McAfee surveyed which A-list celebrity was the riskiest to track on the internet after Pitt topped the list last year and Paris Hilton in 2007.
Biel, 27, who shot to fame in the TV show 7th Heaven and most recently starred in Easy Virtue, was deemed the most dangerous, with fans having a one-in-five chance of landing at a website that has tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing and viruses....
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, who have featured on most celebrity list this year, were not at the top of risky public figures to search.
The Obamas ranked in the bottom third of this year’s results, at No. 34 and No. 39 respectively.
You can access the Top 15 list here. Some interesting tidbits:
- Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie are tied for 8th. Read into that what you will.
- Celebrities jump the shark before they lose their utility to cybercriminals. My proof: Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Kim Kardashian remain in the top 15.
- Declining soft power of America, my fanny: 13 of the 15 celebs on the list were American -- Gisele Bundchen and Rihanna were the only non-American celebrities on the list.
- In yet another justification for her unparalleled status as Your Humble Blogger's Favorite Online Crush, Salma Hayek is not on this list. So there -- go ahead and search her out on these interwebs.
- Flavor Flav did not make this list... exactly.
A question to readers: if this were a truly just world, which celebrities should be at the top of this list?
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