Or is that the joke.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
The joke is that everyone believes him
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
I've met, he's definitely not Canadian.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
You met him. Who you didn't meet was "theTorontoBronco77"
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:45 (eight years ago) link
I love hackers. Hack the planet.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 21 August 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
Understand people being worried about the effects on the users now exposed, but not sad to see a business based on such an unpleasant moral basis have its model effectively wrecked
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 21 August 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
what if last of summer wine modarn day? Howard go on ahsley madison get found out by pearl
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 21 August 2015 07:41 (eight years ago) link
I just found a review of the Good Wife episode Getting Off which is the adultery site one. http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/the-good-wife-getting-off-55741 it mentions Ashley Madison by name and talks about previous notoriety. That's dated May 2011.I was just wondering if Ashley Madison had been the one site to have previous media notoriety prior to the current story. I haven't really heard of other sites than theirs but wouldn't really be looking anyway. So if their site was mentioned by name 4 there years ago, it does look like they have some history of scandal.
Were they well known for it, like was it a well known name for people here prior to the current scandal?
― Stevolende, Friday, 21 August 2015 08:46 (eight years ago) link
Well yeah, they're Ashley Madison - you've literally never heard of them before?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 21 August 2015 08:53 (eight years ago) link
NOt really something that crosses my radar I don't think. Are they International? Could be me not being in the US that influences that too.
― Stevolende, Friday, 21 August 2015 09:28 (eight years ago) link
They had a few publicity stunts, like trying to get a Super Bowl commercial and getting turned down by the NFL, that boosted their profile.
― how's life, Friday, 21 August 2015 10:34 (eight years ago) link
i hadn't heard of ashley madison before either.
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Friday, 21 August 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
I still can't believe they were *actually* going to do a Super Bowl commercial (and also find it hard to believe that the NFL would reject anyone's money) - what they actually did was pretty effective. That's the first time I started hearing about the site.
― frogbs, Friday, 21 August 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link
sure
― irl lol (darraghmac), Friday, 21 August 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
andrew, couldn't it have just been another dude with the same name?
That's prob the case, yes. Just got concerned someone had used my email or whatever. They didn't, so it's all good. Now I'm dropping it before my wife says I protesteth too mucheth.
"theTorontoBronco77"
haha
― andrew m., Friday, 21 August 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
:)
― The Once-ler, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
"I ain't ever even been to Toronto. You can ask my wife!"
http://i.imgur.com/MYF81X4.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
gets me every time
― goole, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ugMeAUQ.jpg
"What a world we live in. I guess we'll have to reset all of our passwords."
― pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
but really there are more women named "ashley madison" in the US than there were affairs conducted on this site. i thought everyone knew it was a scam.
― goole, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
lol ron is stunned
― drash, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
I can not find a woman actually named "Ashley Madison" right now. That's nuts.
""ashley madison" -cheating -adultry -hack -infidelity -dump -hackers -membership"
― pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
i knew about ashley madison because a friend's band has a song called "ashley madison account"
always found it strange to contemplate the meetings at which "ashley madison" was deigned to be a name at the right confluence of "classy" and "adventurous"
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
top 2 most popular girls' names at the time, no pretence at class
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
like a debutante president
― j., Friday, 21 August 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
might be worth searching for ppl called like ashleigh maddison or w/e
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmmQX3UlMw
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
who knows what could happen!
― j., Friday, 21 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
imago that explanation is both a relief and a lil disappointing
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
thought they were operating at a higher level or creepiness :/
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
*of
brb googling 'various double-glazing techniques'
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
^ One of the selectable interestes on Ashley Madison iirc.
― Do you have or use horses? (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 August 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
cuidado
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 August 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Listen, I already made the Dolly Madison joke upthread.
― pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/3hscsp/metadata_analysis_of_ashley_madisons_vancouver/
haha 146 men chasing 2 women in vancouver. seriously, dawg? come on. this really rustles my jimmies.
it's a double-whammy.
people fall into big co's trap, because big co is thirsty for money, and big co nicely illustrates a large population's immoral, disgusting behaviour.
keep it classy, humanity
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 21 August 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
if you're interested in a double-whammy, just pm jjj
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 August 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
lol
― how's life, Friday, 21 August 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
that's inappropriate
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 21 August 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
article of the decade right here
http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/08/heres-what-ashley-madison-members-have.html
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 24 August 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
two suicides reported in Toronto, potentially connected to this.
and, apparently they just released a searchable list for Orlando publicly. a friend of mine at karaoke the other night actually looked up one of the other people in the room, found them in the data dump, then outed him to ten or so other people in the room (discreetly, via FB). One of whom was the KJ who actually (without naming names) name-dropped the Orlando list as a discreet hint. suffice it to say I left not long after that.
yes, fuck this hack and fuck these assholes. they can't claim to be any kind of social justice warriors considering the net they cast was wide enough to drag down lots of innocent people with the 'bad' folk they tarred.
also fuck the people that run this predatory scam site to begin with.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 24 August 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
your friend sounds like trash of the highest order. you can tell them i said that, and you don't need to do it discreetly over facebook
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Monday, 24 August 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
otm
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 24 August 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
yeah it was royally fucked. not even really a friend, more an acquaintance, and that is enough for me to not want to associate with them anymore.
of course it's impossible to have any conversation about this without encountering the Broad Brush Brigade ("well they shoulda thought about that before they cheated!").
so what happens when someone gets a death threat or other hate mail at their physical mail address and their kids see it? Kid's fault for their dad being a cheater, rite?
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 24 August 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
I was about to say something about some people loving drama, then remembered -- is this your group of actor friends?
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 24 August 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
nope
that Troy Hunt article is solid. paints an even handed picture, even acknowledges some regrets about the searchable dump they created. I have to dig into it more but it does really cover the gamete of reactions to this scenario.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 24 August 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
gamete of reactions bahahaha
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 24 August 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
gamergate of reactions
skimming e-mail excerpts in the troy hunt thing is pretty harrowing
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 24 August 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
I think it was Dan Savage who mentioned that for many people, signing up for a site like AM was in itself a kind of fantasy or daydream of infidelity that probably stopped way short of any actual affairs. Which made me realize that the number of honest to god serial cheaters involved in this is probably a pretty small number compared to the greater number of unhappy monogamists who let a fantasy go too far into reality--which is to say people who are flawed but deeply normal and sympathetic except for trusting an Internet site with their credit card info.
― ryan, Monday, 24 August 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link