ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME????? Since when should give a rats #$%^ about people being exposed for the lying trash they are?
Hey! Didn't Raoul Felder used to be a FReeper? Or perhaps still is?
Some believe that if you know of a crime and do nothing you are as guilty as the perpetrator.
Somebody should ping JohnSemmens. He could re-post this article verbatim and label it “semi-satire”.
True, but look how you bought into the premise of the headline: it isn’t that “Ashley Madison data dump threatens marriages,” it’s INFIDELITY threatens marriages and AM’s data dump only reveals it.
For the most part, I agree. However, I wonder how many perpetrators of identity theft are also cheating on spouses, using a stolen identity?
It is “sure to rattle” some users who thought they could cheat on spouses with impunity. Already, I see stories from some prominent customers who are concocting wild stories about how somebody hacked their email. Deeper and deeper....
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.
Once upon a time, the left said, “What happens in the bedroom between two consenting adults is nobody’s business. It’s only sex”, (when it concerned Bill Clinton). Yet now, they’re going off on Josh Duggar for doing the same questionable thing for which they staunchly defended Clinton. But, Duggar is a conservative.
Alinsky tactic (or was it Marx?), “Accuse others of what you are doing”.
Me? I couldn’t care less what people do. What concerns me in this case is the breach of credit card info. If it can happen to this site, it can happen to ANY site.
Uh, I don’t think the hackers and “data dump” threatened the marriages and reputations. I think it was the affairs themselves hat threatened the marriages and reputations.
It is fair to point out that Identity theft can be used for Ashley Madison too . . . not that it will be a large number or percentage of the data dump but some innocent people will be caught up in this.
Since prominent political and social “leaders” might be exposed—which might negatively impact advancing the agenda—that’s why.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s the cheating, deception, and covering up that ruins marriages, not the fact that the scoundrels are exposed.
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:
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!