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.
37 Million Members? I can’t get my head around that Number.
Are you still worshiping the devil? /s
He’s here to wreck threads with bastardized Gospel. Nothing more.
I forgot. Wouldn’t it be hilarious to find out that BOTH Spouses in a Marriage are Members?
I like that reply.May a use it in the future for a few grammar and spel’en cops?
I thought it was a Tupper Ware party Honey!
Stupid is as stupid does...
Pffft!
He worships ME. Because Hitek will tell you. I am PURE evil.
And awesome ;)
By all means. Lots of idiocy needs to be given the direct approach.
I smell the mother of all blackmail schemes in this. Hackers will make a killing off all the wealthy and influential people getting their names off the list before it’s finally released.
Badass and awesome, but your favorite pony is Fluttershy?
Dashie is disappointed.
Groovy....
;)
Dipstick is apparently at a loss for entertainment. It’s the third time in 2 days he’s gone after me with his HiTek Bible. I have reminded him a couple times he will only get mocked in return but he insists on making himself the center of attention.
Oh well. I should probably issue my standard apology to the thread because I’m sorry this liberal idiot follows me around destroying every thread I offend him on.
So, Sorry folks. I don’t bring him here. he just follows me.
This is not the best thread to make this case on, but it seems to me folks kind of wink and nod about these breaches.
If someone broke into my home and rifled my personal papers, and found out secret information, it wouldn’t be tolerated. I could take action against them. They would be guilty of theft.
What bothers me, is that these hackers are more or less thought of as modern day heroes of sorts.
Honestly, I wish there was an agency that could find these guys and put them in a room with no computers for 5 to 10 for this type of activity.
These guys put us all at risk. Breaching these systems is a security risk to individuals. In this instance those individuals are not people I care for. I don’t like their Lifestyle choices. They have made a confidential agreement, and the hackers should leave them alone.
We can’t smile when other people’s private information is revealed, then get up set when our own is.
Private information should remain private.
DONTYOUMAKEFUNOFFLUTTERSHY!!!
She’s a good conservative pony.
And ‘the stare’ is brutally awesome too ;)
The moral fabric that holds society together is fastly unraveling...........
We don’t get upset when criminals get busted. Why get upset when these people do? They were taking part in civil-actionable activities and morally repugnant activities the second they joined the site.
No, none of us are perfect. Then again we arent humiliating our families for sex either.
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