Posted on 08/19/2015 9:33:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Amid reports that hackers apparently had posted online the personal and financial information for up to 40 million members of the infidelities-R-us Web site Ashley Madison, some Americans responded Tuesday night with a shrug.
Just as many, however, responded with a smirk.
Call it schadenfreude. Or, to use the parlance of our high-tech, low sympathy times, a collective lulz. But many people took to Twitter to express their amusement at what seemed to them like poetic justice.
[Hackers claim to have leaked Ashley Madison data trove online]
Who knew paying money to cheat on your spouse had consequences? #AshleyMadison, one person tweeted sarcastically.
Sometimes hackers can actually do a lot of good for society, wrote another.
All the Ashley Madison users who got their data put out in the open deserved it lol, added a third, alongside a smiley face.
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But, I'm sure there are plenty of real accounts, and I have no sympathy for those people. Anyone in there who has a security clearance should be taken to task over it, as well as anyone in any trusted position.
The gamers were having too much fun, they were horribly politically incorrect, and they had to be smashed.
I agree. But before we pull people's security clearances and get them fired from their jobs, we ought to at least ensure they actually used the site.
Have you verified that your email address isn't one of the 32 million? I haven't. Why would it be? I've never visited Ashley Madison, let alone signed up.
That doesn't mean it's not there. Because there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to prevent someone (or some program) from using my email address, or yours, or Clint Eastwood's, Ted Cruz's or President Obama's to sign up to Ashley Madison.
Well, of course confirmation would be needed first.
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