"Sheila: I may be bad... but I feel gooood."
Posted on 07/22/2015 4:42:13 PM PDT by markomalley
For a website like AshleyMadison.com that prides itself on secrecy and anonymity, a breach like this can be catastrophic. The site’s subscribers pay to have access to other married people looking to have affairs. They all, presumably, felt that their private information was safe.
“The quick answer is: not that safe,” says Dr. Michael Sulmeyer, the director of the Cyber Security Initiative at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center.
He says Ashley Madison’s clients know now the truth of the web: everything is hackable.
“Largely, you should not have an expectation of ultimate security and privacy,” Sulmeyer explains. “And operate with the understanding that things can go wrong despite all promises to the contrary.”
The group believed to be responsible for the hack claims to have stolen private information from all 37 million Ashley Madison users. On Tuesday the personal details of two subscribers leaked. One man is from Canada – the other from Brockton.
What was revealed is intensely personal. Among the data released about the Brockton client of Ashley Madison: His user ID is “Heavy73″; he listed himself as “married/attached”; he joined the site the day after Valentine’s Day, 2014; he likes “cuddling & hugging” and is into “discretion & secrecy”.
Sulmeyer says highly motivated hackers can be determined to get into sites like this, looking for intimate even embarrassing details.
On any such site, he says, users can and should change their passwords often.
“Even with that you should not believe that you have total privacy. And if you are really one who wants total privacy then you should not probably be getting on websites like this,” Sulmeyer says.
The hackers are demanding that the whole website be taken down or else they will release all the names and private data they have.
Well, at least you got the state of your soul diagnosed. That’s a plus!
I’m still in hell remember? He sent me there 6 months ago so he should know! ;)
If he actually could see into my soul I very much doubt he would enjoy what he finds. It doesn’t fit his narrative.
Which is often the case when we try to judge a person’s salvation. We’re just not equipped.
Norm, in all things we do, we need to realize that when we open up our enemies via a method, we open up ourselves with that same method?
I don’t want someone getting all my banking and credit information. If something thinks I’m a problematic citizen because I’m a Conservative, they could feel as self-righteous about taking my information too.
Then others could drag their fee for centuries.
That’s not good.
Hes not equipped for much other than preaching a bastardized gospel, disrupting threads and annoying pretty much everyone he comes into online contact with.
I’m not in any way saying we should become black hat hackers. I’m saying if such visit their secure data, I have other concerns much higher up the scale to get to first than saving one morally bankrupt set of pigs from another. I would not want to inadvertently interfere with the work of seeing criminals brought to justice after all.
Hacking is hacking.
It’s wrong.
There’s no justification for it.
There’s should be not group is is allowed for.
If it’s okay for some, it’s okay for all.
Dragging feed, is not equal justice.
Fixed.
For those in Sinsheim his AM handle was "Heavy..."
I’m not remotely concerned with ‘equal’ anything. Justice is never equal. Some get it, some don’t. AM getting their users data raped by hackers is justice. They ‘did’ unto the innocent families of the members and they had done unto them.
I am fine with it as I am fine with black Panthers and Klanners killing each other off. Justice.
Okay Norm, then when someone in your family looses their life savings because some thought they were deserving, just remember this.
When someone you know is raped/murdered and the killer walks I will.
"Sheila: I may be bad... but I feel gooood."
Nothing like a noir redhead ;)
No they don’t. I agree. But it happened and God works in mysterious ways.
As usual, the supermarket tabloid contingent jumps to conclusions...
I understand that's a worldwide site
Not the same thing at all Norm. I remained on topic, and you’re simply avoiding.
What other rights do you think these people should lose, just because we don’t agree with what they are doing?
This isn't a religion thread. It is "News/Activism" , so it cannot be "ruined" with "bastardized" gospel, as you call it. And I am so glad you find it OK that people's personal information is being hacked and compromised online, just because YOU disapprove of that website's content. How awesome will it be when you have personal info hacked, hmmm?
Because they are not doing anything illegal. The hackers (your heroes)are the criminals.
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