How Many 'Carlos Danger's About to Be Unmasked by Ashley Madison Hack?

Reaganite Republican ^ | 21 August 2015 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Perhaps it's wrong to gloat, but I'm going to anyway because the very existence of this site has always bugged the $#*t out of me, standing as a glaring, in-your-face example of how our society is in complete and utter moral free-fall.

And now that there's been a second, even more massive dump of data from the shadowy, elusive 'Impact Team' -one that includes the CEO's own emails, even source code for all his websites/mobile apps, etc- this is a hack even a righteous man can love...

Credit card info, email/billing addresses, and other data released by the hackers has already been crunched by the AP to reveal Ashley Madison cheaters who were chasing-tail from numerous corporate entities, Wall Street banks, the United Nations, state universities, the US military, various federal agencies, even a White House advisor. Ashley Madison people have told law enforcement they suspect an 'inside job'.

Alas, IP addresses betrayed the ones who thought they were anonymous hiding behind a cutesie avatar, using pre-paid phone cards, and/or outside email accounts... and those who paid Ashley Madison $19 for a 'Full Delete' feature of their account/site activity will more than a little bit disappointed to hear that this accomplished NOTHING from the hacker's p.o.v., as all their information -including messages, fetishes, even stated sexual fantasies- remained on the company's server, in-full. 

Expect lawsuits from humiliated, furious, and recently-divorced/bankrupted plaintiffs to come by the busload. In a statement (he now surely regrets), Ashley Madison founder and CEO Noel Biderman once described his company's computer servers as 'kind of untouchable'. A group of Canadians has already filed a $760M class-action suit against the company, and it's only the beginning.

The site's (Canadian) parent company -Avid Life Media- was planning on issuing an IPO, but that's off now in the wake of the devastating hacks and their aftermath. They thought they were worth about a billion dollars, but that could get wiped out pretty quick. The company is trying to keep their chin up -'brand awareness is through the roof'- but you'd have to be pretty horny
-and stupid- to hand your info to a company like this anymore.

Some nuggets extrapolated from the 2nd nifty tranche of data 
(dumped yesterday):

• 15,000 email addresses were on government/military domains

• Ashley Madison accounts are linked to 'at least' two assistant U.S. attorneys

• There's also an IT administrator at the White House, along with workers at more than two dozen Obama administration agencies, including the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Energy, Treasury, Transportation and Homeland Security.

• Accounts were found for division chief, an investigator and a
  trial attorney in the Justice Department

• No US elected officials have been found yet, but
  plenty of Ashley Madison accounts came from House and Senate computer networks, so stay tuned.
  
  
• Names have come up for British, Australian, and other members of parliament overseas- hard to imagine all our congress-critters coming out of this one clean.
  
  
• Defense chief Ashton Carter said the Pentagon was investigating the dump, as such info can be utilized for blackmail, .mil addresses were found in quantity,
  and marital infidelity violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 
  
• a French leak monitoring firm counted 1,200 email addresses from Ashley Madison accounts with the .sa suffix (Saudi Arabia) where adultery is punishable by death.

As for Republicans getting caught up in this mess, there's not all that many
I really give a hoot about anyway, would rather have them exposed/purged than covered-up and excused-for... you're not going to find Ted Cruz' name in there, anyway.

[Reaganite Republican]

***PING***

[grania]

You can’t fix stupid. When are people going to learn not to put personal information online?

[Labyrinthos]

Where is the AM list posted?

[McGruff]

Good question. I’ll bet there are alot of people sweating right now. I heard even some from whitehouse.gov.

[surroundedbyblue]

“As for Republicans getting caught up in this mess, there’s not all that many
I really give a hoot about anyway, would rather have them exposed/purged than covered-up and excused-for... you’re not going to find Ted Cruz’ name in there, anyway.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself

[pgkdan]

As for Republicans getting caught up in this mess, there's not all that many I really give a hoot about anyway, would rather have them exposed/purged than covered-up and excused-for... you're not going to find Ted Cruz' name in there, anyway.

I'm with you there...

[jsanders2001]

The only thing we can find comfort in in this situation is at least you know they weren’t gay. Of course the dudn’t hack any online gay dating sites. That may be next and none of it would surprise me if several in the House and Senate were outed.

[MrB]

Bimbo McCain was on last night crowing how happy she was that Josh Duggar was one of the first people exposed.
(”He’s just so ‘judgy’”).

She hates that there is an absolute standard of morality.
Like most humanists, she uses the imperfections of those who espouse it to “prove” it invalid.

No, sorry “Meg”, just because someone who states God’s truth doesn’t live up to it, doesn’t make it not true.

[Reaganite Republican]

I keep checking the wire lol

[Reaganite Republican]

In one of the articles I read about this a Saudi guy was looking for gay dates on Ashley Madison, so I think it went that way too

Never been on the site, so can’t say for sure

[Reaganite Republican]

Did he really?

Too judge, like McCain doesn’t view himself as ‘advanced’ morally

His contempt for the votes tells you how he really looks at people, he looks down on them

[mj1234]

“put online”

Like THIS site?
and EVERYTHING I have EVER commented about?

For me ... not a problem (I hope)- most of my vitriol
has been against the Demonrats and traitors of America

But I do not have a government job,or a demon supporter
boss of democrats—

it is amazing what people will put online-WITH PICTURES!
it helps sometimes to sort the truth:
Trayvon martin- thug
St. Michael of ferguson: Criminal THUG

[tanknetter]

Actually, I’m surprised they haven’t found Ted Cruz’ account and information in there.

Not that he would have set one up himself. But creating an account under his name, for exploitation in the event of a data spill, would be an easy and obvious political dirty trick.

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were DOZENS of “Ted Cruz” accounts, and fake accounts for many other politicians, out there.

[MrB]

“he” - no, his daughter, on her new radio show.
Can’t stand her, but had to listen to that part last night, like watching a train wreck.

It’s funny, these liberals hate “judgy” people,
and condemn them (judging them)...

[Mr Apple]

iI’ll bet there are alot of people sweating right now.

Not me; been happily married 26 years now.

[miss marmelstein]

This is where the Daily Mail comes in handy.

[redfreedom]

I disagree with that. I went to the first link given out here at FR and browsed the title page. The website no longer exists.

There were categories people could put themselves into, such as (paraphrasing here) man seeking woman, woman seeking man and about 4 others.

At the bottom there was man seeking man, woman seeking woman.

Then there were a couple other categories they could place themselves in as to what type of sex they wanted.

There’s absolutely nothing comforting about this whole mess other than those getting caught might get their just due.

I have a feeling some day, maybe soon, there could be a repeat performance of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

[Little Pig]

As reprehensible as the AM site is, the hack itself is wrong. Sure, we feel some schadenfreude from seeing the high and mighty, especially those in .gov, and the “Carlos Danger” types getting a bit of karma, but a lot of this is only because it’s happened to a site we don’t agree with. That’s Liberal thinking.

How many here would applaud lifting the veil of pseudonyms from here on FR? How many might lose their jobs if all of our employers suddenly knew who we were? FR isn’t a site that encourages infidelity and contributes to the destruction of marriage, the way AM does, but the things we say and believe here are considered beyond repugnant by the idiots on DU (and therefore a big chunk of the MSM), and believed to be extreme by a wide stretch of the public. AM should have been pressured to shut down, no doubt, and condemned for the attitude they promoted, but the people who used it shouldn’t be thrown to the wolves like this. They know what they did, and it’s on them to come clean or live with the guilt. After all, isn’t Rightful Liberty being free to live as you want, so long as it doesn’t interfere with someone else’s rights, even if someone wants to do really stupid and destructive things?

[rellimpank]

—probably the best post of the day—