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Hacker's Ashley Madison data dump threatens marriages, reputations (Give Me A Break!)
Yahoo.Com ^ | August 19, 2015 | Josephine Mason and Alastair Sharp

Posted on 08/20/2015 6:54:42 AM PDT by BradtotheBone

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To: BradtotheBone

It is yet another warning which is met with blasphemy.

The irony is that apparently. adultery is still wrong and must be done in secret, to avoid shame and embarrassment in the real world.


21 posted on 08/20/2015 7:19:54 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: BradtotheBone

I’m not sure it’s the data leak that threatens these “marriages”. When one partner is advertising online and paying for services, the marriage is already threatened by reality.


22 posted on 08/20/2015 7:20:14 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I think it was a dig at the Rat party.


23 posted on 08/20/2015 7:20:39 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: LRoggy

I guess it depends on whether the innocent victim of identity theft suspected anything before the data dump.


24 posted on 08/20/2015 7:27:05 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: BradtotheBone

I find it interesting that the site shows a woman with a wedding ring on and the statement is “life is short, have an affair”. My statement back is eternity is long.. abide by your vows. FWIW, I am not concerned with the cheaters or potential cheaters being exposed. I feel more sorry for the spouse at home (wether it is the husband or wife) who can get something Lysol can’t wash off.


25 posted on 08/20/2015 7:29:01 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: BradtotheBone
The only people I feel any sympathy for are the faithful who were cheated on. I feel no sympathy for the liars and cheats.

The Ashley Madison hackers didn't bring this on anyone, the perpetrators of the cheating did, by committing the act in the first place, and by trusting a site that encouraged and enabled them to cheat on their girlfriends/boyfriends, fiancés, or spouses, to keep their cheating-ass records safe.

26 posted on 08/20/2015 7:36:11 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The other day I... No, that wasn't me.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
But, Duggar is a conservative.

No, he isn't. Not at heart, or by his actions, anyway.

27 posted on 08/20/2015 7:38:25 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The other day I... No, that wasn't me.)
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To: Genoa

Why would they, if they never even thought about going to the site? As long as the credit card was the thief’s you’d likely never catch it. I suspect that the Carlos Danger moniker was used in various iterations as a joke on Weiner.


28 posted on 08/20/2015 7:38:44 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Genoa

I bet criminals are sorting through the dump looking for blackmail material...


29 posted on 08/20/2015 7:47:04 AM PDT by crusher2013 (Liberalism is Aristocracy masquerading as equality)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

That’s right. Someone whose spouse is secretly committing adultery already has a destroyed marriage. It’s only reasonable that they know it.


30 posted on 08/20/2015 7:53:21 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: BradtotheBone

It’s the cheating, deception, and covering up that ruins marriages, not the fact that the scoundrels are exposed.


31 posted on 08/20/2015 7:53:32 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: BradtotheBone
Police and intelligence sources have said it appeared to be an inside job.

They can try to pin this on "ideology", implying that traditional-marriage supporters are behind the attack. But let us not overlook money and power. Ashley Madison is the second-largest hook-up site, after Match.com (which happens to be owned by media mogul Barry Diller, husband of Dlane von Furstenburg). This is a big game with big money players. Somebody may have wanted to ruin the valuation of Ashley Madison, either for revenge within the company, or for corporate espionage.

I love it when leftists eat their own.

Infidelity website Ashley Madison faces 'doomsday scenario' after hack -bankers

From July 20: shake-down in progress:

The criminals have threatened to continue leaking data until the website is closed down and released a statement which said: 'Too bad for those men, they're cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion.'

Those "idealistic" hackers are claiming the moral high ground because they say the site is failing to keep customer data such as credit card info confidential enough, so they were using the hack as blackmail, but the A.M. owners called the FBI instead. Oops!

Hackers claim Ashley Madison cheating site cheats customers

32 posted on 08/20/2015 8:07:28 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: momtothree
the site shows a woman with a wedding ring

It's been observed on some of the previous threads that the site users are almost exclusively men, to the point that the owners were accused of putting in false female profiles.

This supports my theory that many men really want women to BE men in almost every way. I would say "every way," but it seems, from my reading of FR, that even those whose preferred sex acts don't require a woman still want the object to have breasts.

33 posted on 08/20/2015 9:09:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: USNBandit
Local radio (DC area) was listing off the numbers of government accounts used by department. Evidently 25 email accounts from Whitehouse.gov addresses. You can’t make this stuff up.

Ashley Madison didn't verify emails, so you literally could make it up.

Nothing to stop you from putting POTUS@whitehouse.gov in the email field when you signed up.

The hackers did also release billing details, and that's the more concrete stuff that will tie people (like Duggar) to the accounts.

34 posted on 08/20/2015 10:05:46 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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