Stick your tinfoil hats on for this one, but a Reddit user has posed an intriguing question -- "What if the Fappening leaks is the nude collection Snowden said gets passed around between workers of the NSA?"

Sounds ridiculous, sure, but hes referring to a claim Edward Snowden made in a seven hour long interview with the Guardian a couple of months ago. Snowden said, "You've got young enlisted guys, 18 to 22 years old. They've suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility where they now have access to all of your private records". According to Snowden, these people often "stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work", such as photos of a person or persons in "a sexually compromising situation".

In the Showerthoughts subreddit, the user, Stoet, muses "That would explain why the leaks seem to be coming from anywhere: iCloud, Dropbox, etc. They [the NSA] have built in backdoors to those systems and more. And the targeted celebrities are all American, right?"

The leaked celebrity images, which include naked pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Rihanna, Kaley Cuoco and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, appear to have been collected over a period of time. Mary Elizabeth Winstead stated the photos of her in the collection were deleted some time ago, and its not too much of a stretch to think if NSA employees are indeed looking at naked photos, that compromising shots of celebrities would be a prized find, and something someone might want to hold on to...

Whats your theory on the source of the leaks?

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