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

[DeadPresident]

I guess the best way to view this story is like those Darwin Award winners you read about on the internet (i.e., man gets killed climbing into lion's cage at zoo on a dare). It's like, yeah, that really sucks, but come on, at what point did you think this was an awesome idea.

We live in a society where you always blame the zoo, or the lion, or the company that made the bars looooong before you blame the moronic human that thought it was a good idea.

I agree though, it's sad that peoples lives were going to be ruined, but come on, the time to think of the internet as some untraceable, anonymous vessel for someone's deepest and most sordid desires is long gone. Hacking incidents like this particularly (I know some jabroni will tell me if I support this I obviously support the happening hackers) is more about transparency than it is about vindictive malevolence.

Why shouldn't the public at large tell deceitful people to take responsibility for their actions?

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Who even created this site? Whoever they are they are TRASH.

I find the idea of the Ashley Madison website to be morally reprehensible.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

Another self-proclaimed family values moralizer busted with an Ashley Madison account:

http://gawker.com/viral-christian-pregnancy-youtuber-sam-rader-had-a-paid-1725258643

 

[Pink Ranger]

The most depressing thing is that it sounds like these family-value guys lead more crazy lives than I do, apparently.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I don't even know who that dude is.

 

[Sawyer]

The most depressing thing is that it sounds like these family-value guys lead more crazy lives than I do, apparently.

Aww, you'll find someone someday that wants to do weird, illicit s*** with you under the cover of darkness. Keep hope alive, Pink!

 

[Mace Dolex]

I don't even know who that dude is.

Exactly there could be millions of people with an AM account that nobody has heard of why would I care if a John or Jane Doe has been cheating on me?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Aww, you'll find someone someday that wants to do weird, illicit s*** with you under the cover of darkness. Keep hope alive, Pink!

I just want to know what church these guys go to. Must be some freaky-ass stuff going down in there.

 

[Sawyer]

I just want to know what church these guys go to. Must be some freaky-ass stuff going down in there.

It's deep and dark stuff, Pink, you should tread lightly.

 

[Pink Ranger]

It's deep and dark stuff, Pink, you should tread lightly.

I just want to know where it stands on the spectrum from Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut to Ken Russell's The Devils.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

How long as this cheating website been around anyway? This scandal is the first the I heard about it.

 

[Erzengel]

2001.

 

[Pink Ranger]

The logical next step is to name and shame anybody who's ever downloaded a Kenny G album from iTunes.

 

[Sawyer]

I just want to know where it stands on the spectrum from Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut to Ken Russell's The Devils.

Probably closer to the Manson Family at their peak.

 

[chaseter]

Wow... so much schadenfreude going on. Some of you are really getting enjoyment about the ruination of other people's lives. And you know it and don't care.

Imagine if your life were to be ruined by some mistake you made and everyone around you laughed and made fun of you. That is exactly what you are doing right now.

That's called taking responsibility for your actions...

If you like to beat off to beastiality but are afraid of what others will think of you...don't ****ing beat off to beastiality. It's not that hard of a concept.

 

[Greens]

If you like to beat off to beastiality but are afraid of what others will think of you...don't ****ing beat off to beastiality. It's not that hard of a concept.

How far does that extend? If I'm afraid what people will think of me because I listen to ABBA, should I not listen to ABBA?

 

[Sawyer]

Are we comparing cheating on a spouse with bestiality now? Is that what we're doing here?

 

[Greens]

Are we comparing cheating on a spouse with bestiality now? Is that what we're doing here?

I honestly didn't know adultery pushes this many buttons. I'm not saying I ever thought it was good, but the reactions are more over the top than I'd expected them to be.

 

[Erzengel]

I honestly didn't know adultery pushes this many buttons. I'm not saying I ever thought it was good, but the reactions are more over the top than I'd expected them to be.

Obviously in general, even with all these names being dropped, I think a lot of spouses won't find out whether they are computer illiterate or just not that savvy.

However, picture your parents and one of them is cheating and kept it hidden from everyone. Except a nosey neighbor who caught them 2 towns over and now everyone in town knows. It's not just the looks that the cheater is going to get, it's the ones the spouse and children will get. Poor so and so, can't believe what they did. It's the embarrassment.

So I kinda get the whole, fallout discussion. In general, if you feel that someone should have their comeuppance for cheating but ignore that there are victims here who pretty much did nothing wrong who will also be brought into this.

 

[Greens]

Obviously in general, even with all these names being dropped, I think a lot of spouses won't find out whether they are computer illiterate or just not that savvy.

However, picture your parents and one of them is cheating and kept it hidden from everyone. Except a nosey neighbor who caught them 2 towns over and now everyone in town knows. It's not just the looks that the cheater is going to get, it's the ones the spouse and children will get. Poor so and so, can't believe what they did. It's the embarrassment.

So I kinda get the whole, fallout discussion. In general, if you feel that someone should have their comeuppance for cheating but ignore that there are victims here who pretty much did nothing wrong who will also be brought into this.

I agree with that sentiment, but I just didn't expect so many people to react this vehemently to adultery on its own. I guess it's because the topic isn't covered in the media that much.

 

[chaseter]

Are we comparing cheating on a spouse with bestiality now? Is that what we're doing here?

Replace it with anything. If you are ashamed, then don't do it. If you get exposed, take responsibility.

 

[DDS]

Cheating is wrong, but it is not a crime. Leaking info like this is a crime, and is only good if it is exposing actual crime, such as possible sex trafficking through the site. People in other countries are at risk of being killed if this leak outs them as gay, in case that hasn't already been brought up.

So overall I do not condone the Ashley Madison leaks, no matter how much karma is being dealt on cheaters, because too many people could be put in actual danger because of it.

 

[Schlosser85]

Replace it with anything. If you are ashamed, then don't do it. If you get exposed, take responsibility.

That's a bit overly simplistic.

Some people are ashamed of being gay. That doesn't mean they "shouldn't be gay" (because it's just a switch you can flick on or off ), or that it just sucks to be them if their homosexuality gets exposed. In some countries, that carries a death sentence or life imprisonment, and it's entirely possible these armchair internet heroes who hacked Ashley Madison are endangering some people's lives.

 

[Schlosser85]

I honestly didn't know adultery pushes this many buttons. I'm not saying I ever thought it was good, but the reactions are more over the top than I'd expected them to be.

Frankly, some of it comes across as very fake and like armchair social justice warrior crap.

 

[jmc]

Adultery is only an issue because we as a species have decided that somehow sleeping with more than one person is a bad thing.