I think the part that annoys me the most is that I have my burner e-mail address (which I actually use for CP and Airmiles and such) and then this is my "professional" e-mail, like I would use when applying for jobs and on my resume. Some horny dude in podunk Indiana or somewhere can't find the underscore properly, and my email is part of a data leak.
Time to go off the grid.
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I think the part that annoys me the most is that I have my burner e-mail address (which I actually use for CP and Airmiles and such) and then this is my "professional" e-mail, like I would use when applying for jobs and on my resume. Some horny dude in podunk Indiana or somewhere can't find the underscore properly, and my email is part of a data leak.
Ever notice how you get a message from someone way out of your league, right after you unsubscribe from a dating site?
A book I just picked up on the subject:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...-dating-advice
We were meeting to discuss his first book, Modern Romance (for which he received a reported $3.5 million advance), written with the sociologist Eric Klinenberg and published this month by Penguin Press. It’s an unexpectedly serious work about the challenges and pitfalls of looking for love in the Digital Age via Match.com, OkCupid, Tinder, Twitter, Facebook—the whole techno shebang.
I just finished his audio book, it's hilarious and quite fascinating. He even shames you for buying the audio version a number of times, calling the listener lazy.
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How awful. I imagine the only thing worse than finding that out on the radio is having it go viral and probably being recognised by people, including maybe the two kids.
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What the Cheaters did was unethical and immoral, what the hackers did was illegal. The Cheaters have to deal with their spouses and families, and likely would have at some point anyways.
The hackers have to deal with the law.
The ridiculous social justice warriors have to holster their guns for a bit.
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I heard on the radio today, and maybe it's been discussed already, but it sounds like a class action lawsuit has been filed against Ashley Madison's parent company.
It will be interesting to see how it goes. With my limited legal knowledge on the subject, I can't help but feel that this is more of an issue of personal accountability of the user. Yeah, the site was hacked and their information made public, but ultimately they put their information on there.
The Web is not a secure and private place and it is unrealistic to have that expectation. It's like leaving your car doors unlocked and then trying to blame the parking garage when thieves steal your car. It's not like a bank or something. They put their information on a seedy website.
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What the Cheaters did was unethical and immoral, what the hackers did was illegal. The Cheaters have to deal with their spouses and families, and likely would have at some point anyways.
The hackers have to deal with the law.
The ridiculous social justice warriors have to holster their guns for a bit.
Aaaaaaaaammmmeeeennn. So tired of all the holier than thou anti lion killing, anti impaired driving, etc crowd.
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I'm glad that cheaters are being caught and I think cheaters are cowards anyway but I still think that the hackers should face the full force of the law. It would be like killing someone who stole something and justifying it by saying that the thief had it coming.
I think that if they find out who the hackers are and make it public knowledge, something bad will come of it. I could see someone losing their family and life over cheating (they would have likely anyway) and just going crazy. The people being caught cheating would have someone (else) to blame. The hackers would be the "rat" in prison.
I wonder if that were to happen, and a cheater kills a hacker who exposed them; do the social justice warriors agree with that? Isn't it just the same rationale as what's happening? Cheaters are doing something wrong but not really illegal, society champions the people who actually broke the law to expose the people doing something immoral. Well now someone goes and kills someone who broke the law, isn't that good? Aren't they getting rid of someone who actually broke the law?
It's a slippery slope of trading one wrong thing for something worse. I just really hope the hackers are exposed and face justice before a worse crime happens.
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I heard on the radio today, and maybe it's been discussed already, but it sounds like a class action lawsuit has been filed against Ashley Madison's parent company.
It will be interesting to see how it goes. With my limited legal knowledge on the subject, I can't help but feel that this is more of an issue of personal accountability of the user. Yeah, the site was hacked and their information made public, but ultimately they put their information on there.
The Web is not a secure and private place and it is unrealistic to have that expectation. It's like leaving your car doors unlocked and then trying to blame the parking garage when thieves steal your car. It's not like a bank or something. They put their information on a seedy website.
The issue, I would guess, is that they advertised as being secure, maybe making a guarantee of it. If that is true, they may have a case. It's like, if your online banking got hacked through no fault of your own, the Bank would be no the hook, not you for having ineffective security. So AM may, at minimum be responsible for refunding user fees becuase they didn't live up to their secure guarantee. I could see them also being held for damages....
Wow people don't get it.
Let's see how they feel when whatever dark little secret in their life - comes out.
Because we all have them.
For some of us they are just small embarrassments, for others they reveal material deceptions. But we all have things that we wouldn't want to be revealed like this.
Scary.
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Wow people don't get it.
Let's see how they feel when whatever dark little secret in their life - comes out.
Because we all have them.
For some of us they are just small embarrassments, for others they reveal material deceptions. But we all have things that we wouldn't want to be revealed like this.
Scary.
No kidding. Imagine if this was your internet search history. I imagine there would be much more outrage about the hackers than the search filters that were found.
As had been mentioned, I doubt that the folks on this site, cheating on their spouses thought they were never going to get caught. Everything comes out eventually. But they were going to have to deal with it privately, in their own little version of hell.
(and as a side-note, if the % of men on the site is so high, who were they actually having affairs with? they got totally scammed)
But, what the hackers did, as has been also mentioned, is criminal, add to that, how far social media vigilantes, radio hosts, politicians, etc, are going to take this.
