Ashley Madison - 'Welcome to the first day of the rest of your internet'

what if last of summer wine modarn day? Howard go on ahsley madison get found out by pearl

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?

Well yeah, they're Ashley Madison - you've literally never heard of them before?

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.

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.

i hadn't heard of ashley madison before either.

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.

sure

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

:)

"I ain't ever even been to Toronto. You can ask my wife!"

http://i.imgur.com/MYF81X4.jpg

gets me every time

http://i.imgur.com/ugMeAUQ.jpg

"What a world we live in. I guess we'll have to reset all of our passwords."

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.

lol ron is stunned

I can not find a woman actually named "Ashley Madison" right now. That's nuts.

""ashley madison" -cheating -adultry -hack -infidelity -dump -hackers -membership"

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"

top 2 most popular girls' names at the time, no pretence at class

like a debutante president

might be worth searching for ppl called like ashleigh maddison or w/e

like a debutante president

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmmQX3UlMw

might be worth searching for ppl called like ashleigh maddison or w/e

who knows what could happen!

imago that explanation is both a relief and a lil disappointing

thought they were operating at a higher level or creepiness :/

*of

brb googling 'various double-glazing techniques'

^ One of the selectable interestes on Ashley Madison iirc.

cuidado

brb googling 'various double-glazing techniques'

Listen, I already made the Dolly Madison joke upthread.

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

if you're interested in a double-whammy, just pm jjj

lol

that's inappropriate

article of the decade right here

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/08/heres-what-ashley-madison-members-have.html

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.

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

otm

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?

I was about to say something about some people loving drama, then remembered -- is this your group of actor friends?

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.

gamete of reactions bahahaha

gamergate of reactions

skimming e-mail excerpts in the troy hunt thing is pretty harrowing

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.

That's an overwhelming concern. The other being that the hackers decided to take something that spouses would typically handle themselves in private and make it public news to a bunch of strangers who didn't fucking need to know it.

agree with HSB in this thread but i don't think the hackers were really trying to justify themselves beyond the level of prurient oneupmanship. it should be pretty obvious to pretty much everyone that they're cunts for doing this

Lack of support from Avid Life Media

Troy Hunt article def not funny, but admit I did let go a lol at this

This is amazing.

Stepping back from the ruined lives and the embarrassment and the shame, this is an amazing look at these singular moments of one person sitting in front of a computer, deciding how they're going to go about paying for this service. Making that choice to go in on it.

I keep seeing over and over things like

AMERICAN EXPRESS GIFT CARD | anon1982_✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧ | 4388 Duckett Lane APT 2F, Springdale, AR, 72988

is there anything to determine for sure in this case that's that guy's real street address and not one he just picked at random out of the phone book?

quick google says that zip code doesn't exist (too high for arkansas, too low for oklahoma), there's no duckett lane in arizona, etc. i don't know whyt i am looknig tihs up but the "apt 2f" is a nice touch, and i am surprised that the site let him enter a non-existent zip code, liek don't they usually have a thing that blocks you from doing that? as a canadian who had to sign up to things in the past i had to actually like research where zip codes were to make fake accounts to download music or whatever