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.
Seems to me that if a mate remains clueless while the other is having an affair (or string of affairs), the marriage probably has serious problems outside the affairs.
I’m not one to think of myself as part of the ‘supermarket tabloid contingent’ ordinarily, but I’m willing to entertain the notion for the sake of argument. How many of those users do you suppose are in India, or China, or Russia?
What makes you assume I havent had it happen?
You are right. It’s not a religion thread. Talk to the guy who spouts bastardized gospel on pretty much every thread he posts on. Not me.
Do you NOT disapprove of married men completely screwing over their wives?
I guess in your zeal, you missed the couple posts I specifically said prosecute ‘my heroes’ to the fullest extent of the law.
Read before ranting. I do.
Hey if you want to go off into hypothetical, one is as good as another.
The bleeding portions of my heart don’t extend in their direction, but to their victims... and yet somehow the world manages to rebalance. Actions have consequences. They wanted to play in an area that is fringe and profit. They got preyed upon themselves. Predator became prey. One day, the predator will get his. It’s the law of the jungle/circle of life. And whether we like it or not, and I don’t, it just is.
At this point in America, I don’t care what rights human garbage loses because they don’t care about anyone but themselves. At all. Nor do I care what happens to them, by whom, or the results they suffer.
DO-NOT-CARE
Does that make me a bad man?
DO-NOT-CARE
Not sure how much clearer I can be.
Hacking into NAMBLA ?
God bless em, and I hope they don’t get caught.
Hack into a conservative Christian church, because they spoke out against Obama? I hope they fry.
We have a lawless POTUS
A lawless House & Senate
A lawless SCOTUS
I’m with you, I just don’t care if evil gets “outed” Don’t do the evil!
Thats it. Bottom line.
You may want to ask yourself what other basic human rights you would like to deny folks not doing what you think is right.
Once you go down that road, there’s no stopping
We’re all sinners. If you start writing people off because they commit sins you don’t like, then we’re all condemned.
I dislike very much what they are doing because it’s a betrayal of their spouse, their children, they extended family, their social acquaintances, the community, and ultimately the nation.
Sound morals make for a sound society and nation. And if that nation is a light unto the world, humanity loses.
Doesn’t it lose when we sign on to denying rights too?
Actually, it does.
“You may want to ask yourself what other basic human rights you would like to deny folks not doing what you think is right.”
No I’m fairly certain I already know.
And now so do others.
They’re going to release the 37 million names one at a time? That should take a little time I suppose!
Which is good. It’s always a good thing to know where people stand.
I agree Norm.
So you are basically morally bankrupt, and have no concern for people's rights. People who "only care for themselves" have the same rights you do. Plus, you have no evidence that people who used this site "only care for themselves". That is your preconceived notion.
Not the subject of the thread. The posted article is about a hacking.
But to answer your question, I feel it is none of my damn business how other people manage their relationships.
Say for example... how others feel about it? Because you had no issue making that your damn business so I guess yours is a selective morality too. Sucks to be us.
No concern for those who trod on others whatsoever. None. Zero. Zilch. Wouldn’t unzip to relieve myself on them if they spontaneously combusted.
Call it what you like. Makes no difference to me whatsoever. I’m not the guy unconcerned with the destruction they visit on their own families. Thats you.
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