Hackers to Ashley Madison website: Pay up or we reveal the name of all your cheaters!

[Monsieur Xavier]

^^
We're not talking about equal rights here.

Edit : The road to hell is paved with good intentions

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

^^
We're not talking about equal rights here.

We're not talking about social justice either.

Lots of people believe cheaters deserve to get caught.

Not just the pro-civil rights crowd.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

You are right.
I may should not have used the term "social justice warrior" but just "holier than thou web moralistic/lecturer".

Sorry for my lack of words in the context.

 

[Frodo]

While I don't feel sorry for the users of Ashley Madison, its easy to celebrate hacking as long as it isn't your own credit card, private data, pictures, and information that isn't getting hacked, and because the hacking is happening for reasons you like.

As someone who's had their own credit card number hacked and used in another state, I find it hard to encourage that behavior regardless of these hackers intentions, which I don't buy anyway.

Other than that though, yeah, the users were foolish.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

While I don't feel sorry for the users of Ashley Madison, its easy to celebrate hacking as long as it isn't your own credit card, private data, pictures, and information that isn't getting hacked, and because the hacking is happening for reasons you like.

As someone who's had their own credit card number hacked and used in another state, I find it hard to encourage that behavior regardless of these hackers intentions, which I don't buy anyway.

Other than that though, yeah, the users were foolish.

Yes, hacking isn't always good and it's not always bad.

 

[Kaleb]

I do feel for the users of that site. It must feel horrible to have a trust like that broken.

 

[terry78]

If it's any consolation, maybe some of the ones on that site were married to some straight *****es.

 

[Spider-X]

If you married a person who ends up being someone you can't stand and you have kids with them and all that...then grow up and divorce them. Don't go sneaking around behind their back and cheat on them.

There's no excuse for cheating on someone in such an organized fashion. It's one thing to have an accidental cheat where there's a moment of passion involved and then you just go and break it off with your SO because you realize you don't love them....it's a complete other thing entirely to creating a friggen profile on a website to meet other horrible people.

It's a horrible website for lame people. Simple as that.

With that said, hacking this site and holding people hostage is wrong too...cheating is no ones business but the parties involved in the individual relationships....however, it is karma.

 

[tzarinna]

Ashley Madison has 39K likes on facebook. :/

 

[Snow Queen]

Ashley Madison has 39K likes on facebook. :/

...why would anyone publicly like this?

 

[terry78]

I was sure the creator of that site was a chick, but I shoulda known better.

 

[Kaleb]

I always thought it was a porn star.

 

[tzarinna]

...why would anyone publicly like this?

Probably folks with dual accounts.

I'm enjoying the comment section, but they need to take it up a notch.

 

[The Apocalypse]

I always thought it was a porn star.

Read the title to the thread and immediately thought the same thing.

 

[terry78]

Dudes that cheat don't even try and be discreet about it. Women can hide that ******** for years and act like nothing is wrong. Then turn it around so that you're in the wrong, haha.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

If you cheat knowing your spouse is abusive or capable of murder, you don't deserve corporate privacy protection, you deserve a Darwin Award.

 

[DeadPresident]

And a coffin.

 

[James]

'Innocent'.

I'm not sure if you're quoting my most recent post here, but for the record; the innocent people I'm referring to are the children, friends, family etc of the people who's information would be released.

 

[tzarinna]

Hackers Release Data from Cheating Website Ashley Madison Online

 

[KevanG]

Aaaand up! goes the divorce rate.

Also, if anyone is morbidly curious about reading through any of that, then it's probably on the torrent sites by now.

 

[Teelie]

I'm not touching it but I have read it comes in at just shy of 10 gigabytes in a compressed format... that's a lot of data.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Someone should make a search engine where you can easily look up names on the list.

 

[Snow Queen]

Someone should make a search engine where you can easily look up names on the list.

There already is.

 

[Erzengel]

Think there's about 3 websites so far. However, I think only e-mails are searchable.

 

[Schlosser85]

I'm all for consenting adults doing whatever the **** they want, but having a website that expressly exists to help people have extramarital affairs is pretty sleazy in the first place.