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It used to be that if you wanted to interact with your favourite celebrity you\\u2019d have to do elaborate things like camp out near a red carpet in Hollywood, lying in wait, until you finally got the chance to scream-ask Queen Bey for her autograph amongst a gaggle of other fans.

Well, in 2020, like everything else in this world, including our dating lives, our health, and voting there\\u2019s an app for paying celebrities to give you personalized shoutout videos. That\\u2019s right, the app Cameo provides you a list of celebrities ranging from Snoop Dogg to Michael Rappaport, that you can select, pay, and then receive everything from a personalized \\u2018happy birthday\\u2019 to a \\u2018get well soon\\u2019 from your favourite celeb. 

But through a flaw in its website\'s design, a security researcher discovered that many of these personal videos were available to anyone, including those that had been set to \'private\'. Motherboard then wrote code to find the private videos en masse.

Joseph Cox, Motherboard reporter of cybercrime and sketchiness extraordinaire, tells CYBER how he broke the story and got Gilbert Gotfried to verify the flaw on Cameo\\u2019s site with a personal message using that lovable voice of his.

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