fuck these hackers and fuck everybody I know posting this jubilantly today.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
just heard about mh's reddit post from a friend. shit like *that* is why this is fucked, that and the whole mass presumptions and internet morality police performing a service that nobody requested that will likely take down a shitload of innocent people down with the guilty.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 21:51 (eight years ago) link
(the post he shared, obv he didn't make it)
'Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world’s biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters.'
i mean, who cares then? what's the point? is it that different from i don't know... watching porn? how many users on the website are actually married? how much actual cheating was derived from the website? Seriously I am starting to think hackers are really just bunch of 14 years olds.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
you ol' romantic, van horn street
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
attempted illicit fucking
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
with female bots
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyG5wtPh7I5s4DEfxItvRZyB95Y-YgdYPWJvqkb7HXxxmeCbrsI am not amused by this development.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
Funny, given the male/female ratio, that my two of my three friends with registered email addresses are women.
Three friends:1) Finance guy, European, married to a friend of mine, two kids at home. European, so permitted swinging? Who knows.2) Lawyer, gal, adventurous online dater between two marriages (and more than between?).3) Arty gal, adventurous dater, never married.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
What's an adventurous dater? First-date BDSM?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Just frequent dates and frequent action.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
skydiving
― j., Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
*guitar squeal*
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
when i first heard of 'ashley madison', conflated it with 'laura ashley'so to me 'ashley madison' always evokes prim flowery dresses
two of my three friends with registered email addresses are women
interesting (though upon reflection, not so interesting/surprising), i.e. why some women prefer to 'adventurously date' married men
― drash, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
http://gawker.com/family-values-activist-josh-duggar-had-a-paid-ashley-ma-1725132091
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
that duggar guy is an asshole and a sex criminal but gawker should really just not talk about this at all right
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
the scale of relationship devastation & personal humiliation going on worldwide right now
― drash, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5Hz17C4is
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
xxp, short answer yes with an if, long answer no with a but
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
otm
probably cool to not link their stories where they reward hackers for their work by id'ing people's private data on "hey, it's out there!" ground
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 20 August 2015 00:46 (eight years ago) link
given that someone has posted a link that allows you to search the leak by email address itt i don't think linking to a gawker article can really be considered beyond the pale in this context
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 20 August 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
true true
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 20 August 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
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― Treeship, Thursday, 20 August 2015 02:49 (eight years ago) link
i'm happy ilx is anti-hackers. i was reading gawker comments on this earlier (i know, it's a sickness) and the number of people there fire and brimstoning the "cheating assholes" was staggering.
― Treeship, Thursday, 20 August 2015 02:53 (eight years ago) link
'Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world’s biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters.'i mean, who cares then? what's the point? is it that different from i don't know... watching porn? how many users on the website are actually married? how much actual cheating was derived from the website? Seriously I am starting to think hackers are really just bunch of 14 years olds.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 20 August 2015 03:22 (eight years ago) link
Just been thinking while reading through this that The Good Wife had a story about an adultery site. So did that reflect there having been an earlier adultery site related scandal? I think to some extent they reflect what's in the news at the time of writing. Could have just been some public exposure that such sites exist.I can't recall what season that was or what exactly the case concerning the adultery site was. Maybe just about anonymity or subsequent cover up of existing lack of potential partners?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 20 August 2015 07:35 (eight years ago) link
Just reposting this titbit from ^^^^
European, so permitted swinging?
wtfuckingactualf
In other news, the "I was hacked when I ended up on the list" stories from politicians have started.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-33999675
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Thursday, 20 August 2015 08:34 (eight years ago) link
maybe i'm naive but the gleeful way the site actually advertised itself (pre-hack) on Facebook was pretty o_0. looked like it was being run by a bunch of giggling fratboys. i mean.. i dunno what i was expecting but at least a modicum of 'sophistication' or something.
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 August 2015 10:55 (eight years ago) link
have you ever met an actual sophisticated person in this life
― Upright Mammal (mh), Thursday, 20 August 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Greenwald invokes Hester Prynne, Max:
It’s hard to overstate the devastation to some people’s lives from having their names published as part of this hack: not only to their relationships with their spouses and children but to their careers, reputations, and – depending on where they live – possibly their liberty or even life. What appears on the internet is permanent and inescapable. All of the people whose names appear in this data base will now be permanently branded with a digital “A.” Whether they actually did what they are accused of will be irrelevant: digital lynch mobs offer no due process or appeals. And it seems certain that many of the people whose lives are harmed, or ruined, by this hack will have been guilty of nothing.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/20/puritanical-glee-ashley-madison-hack/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 August 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6473d-X-PQM
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 August 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
a friend of mine's personal stuff was leaked! he's a media/programmer guy and (at least claims) he was testing login interfaces for various dating sites. he's not married anyways, and seems to find the whole thing amusing.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
my dummy account was in the leak
i feel so famous and licentious!!
for unrelated purposes i made a rare login to my dummy email account, which i used to sign up for the dummy adultery account, and found that, lol, there was recent mail from ashley madison and the account delete i did never took
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
why did you sign up?
― dylannn, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
for the adultery account. i'm not sure what dummy account means.
shoppin around for a side board?
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
i read some story about the site and i wanted to see how adultery-website ppl were different from all the other meet-ppl-to-sleep-w-them ppl from other websites
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
what did you learn?
― dylannn, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
well it's all a funhouse of uncertainty of course
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
ppl are ppl
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
so y shud it b
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
My wife just informed me that leaked names from here include my name but with a billing address in Toronto. Wasn't planning on looking at this stuff beyond what can't be avoided when looking at news on the Internet or whatever, but should I be concerned? Fake profile perhaps?
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
what do you mean by funhouse of uncertainty? did you sleep with any married women?
― dylannn, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
Just to clarify, it's not me and not a dummy acct. Had never heard of AM until all this biz.
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
I wonder how many people have signed up in the last few days.
― ryan, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
andrew can you check to see what the credit card number (the last 4 digits) at least is that's associated with your name/email?
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
how did your wife bring it up...?
― dylannn, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
also i signed up for a related one at almost the same time, i get kind of confused about which was which
one was much more like a thirst trap for unsuspecting creditcard holders, seemed to have seeded the listings with lots of probably fake succulent 20-year-olds
the proper adultery one had a surprising number of, like, schlubby 30-40-something midwesterners, way out of proportion to what you see on dating websites or plain old sex websites
though there were still a certain amount of people who clearly put an emphasis on fitness/body specifically for sex-related purposes
and the level of frankness about the reason for cheating was fairly high. whereas you might see a lot of poly-leaning talk on many other sites, and there was a little bit of swinger/open marriage talk on this one, really it was more a lot of unmet needs / sex part of my marriage is over / just have to have a thrill stuff. not very defensively either, though there was an undertone of that sometimes.
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
xp she IM'd me a little bit ago haha. I'll see about the email/credit card stuff when I get home. Hopefully it's nothing to worry about.
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
haha no dylannn i would never, it's just that most of these sites seem to fake / juke the listings, maybe even show stock photos of people not in your locality, to generate the impression that there are sooo maaaaany hoottttt willllllling ppl out there
one of these sites i looked at, ashley madison i think, also had a prominent kept-young-hottie contingent, sugar daddies, etc., even some that stipulated explicitly looking for someone to pay for college and getting companionship but no sex out of the deal
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link