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.

[jimmyray]

Gal 5:11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

[Fresh Wind]

You are absolutely right.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Apples and oranges. FreeRepublic is constitutionally protected political free speech while this business was at best a conspiracy to commit family destroying betrayal or at worst serious criminal activity. The users of this business got exactly what they deserved and their loss will stand as a warning to others. This was a righteous hack.

[ilovesarah2012]

“This was a righteous hack”

I couldn’t agree more. No sympathy for any of them. When you purposely go out to cheat on your spouse and your family, you deserve no sympathy.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Carry on. You’ve got that strong will...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“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.”

Two words: Slick. Willie. Maybe THAT will put the final nail in Hillary’s coffin!

*Fingers Crossed*

[Reaganite Republican]

I’m not huge on hackers, but I love this one

[Reaganite Republican]

Yeah, and the hack is plenty illegal, too

[jimmyray]

Not sure of your intent, but Paul said that the cross is offensive, and that the Gospel is foolishness to those that are perishing.

[xp38]

I don’t know but I think snow was part of the nick. I looked him up on the Memorial Wall (1955-2008) but his posting nick is not displayed like most who are on the wall which would fall in with his wanting his history deleted. His tribute thread runs to over 2000 posts.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044355/posts

I went through the first page seeing if the nick was mentioned but nothing came up. You are welcome to check the rest of the thread.

[i_robot73]

What *I* find (not so) surprising is the same group who would storm-trooper anyone’s biz/home/etc. for lack of govt’ compliance in *guffaw* ‘security’, is completely 180 on the matter: You WHITELIST as needed, all else is DENIED.

The SAME group of people whom have EVERY TIDBIT of information on (more than likely) every human on the planet from birth to death....

YOU break the law/compliance and prepare for the iron fist/boot. Govt, on the other hand, “Oops!”. Just see how quick THEY are to ‘assist’ when YOUR identity is stolen (abetted by govt by the holes they left open)

[Teacher317]

hacking, blackmail, invasion of privacy... and everyone seems to condone it so that they can sanctimoniously look down on consenting adults. Pathetic.

(And no, I am not a member, if that matters to the ad hominem attack crowd.)

[Drew68]

you're not going to find Ted Cruz' name in there, anyway.

Except you probably will. And he's probably looking for gay sex.

Did Senator Cruz himself sign up? This is highly doubtful.

Seeing how anyone could sign up for a free "guest" account with any email address; real, fake or someone else's and any name they choose, I suspect most every politician on both sides of the aisle have Ashley Madison accounts they know nothing about that were set up by people trying to discredit them.

[Little Pig]

Free Speech didn’t stop the Gaystapo and the courts from financially ruining that cake shop. To the Left, FR and sites like it are just as bad as AM, if not worse: to them we spew “hate speech”, espouse extremist ideologies, and want to overthrow their nearly-socialist government and their Dear Leader and turn the US into a Theocracy.

[BwanaNdege]

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?

The consequence is:

"For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open." Luke 8:17

[Reaganite Republican]

The main thing is catching people by their IP addresses... hard for anybody to frame them that way, if the line goes to the guy’s office on The Hill