I didn’t think my faith in humanity could dip much lower, but the overwhelming support I’m seeing for the comeuppance generated by this hack sickens me.
Really, how could anyone with a lick of common sense assume that kind if thing is not going to happen?
I wonder how many ‘Impact Team’ operatives redacted their own information before it was released to the public?
I agree with you whole heartedly. Here is a man that traded in hypocrisy by condemning others for actions that he himself was doing in secret. As the executive director of the Family Research Council (recognized as a hate group by the SPLC I note), he trumpeted family values and condemned homosexuality, abortion, divorce, and sodomy as threats to our traditional family structure. At the same time he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars and demonstrating family values by fucking around on his wife. He, personally, lobbied to limit the rights of many people who have certainly demonstrated more support for stable marriages and family values than he ever did while at the same time he was trolling the internet for anonymous sex partners and trying to dodge responsibility for the fact he molested his sisters when they were children. I admit that I am unsure if he has publicly condemned child molestation, incest, or adultery, but the fact that he was raking in money with both hands while condemning others for actions that (IMHO) pale in comparison with his own makes him a hypocrite of the worst stripe. So, fuck that guy, he should reap what he has sown.
Why would you assume it would happen? It is a service that explicitly does not cater to his needs - it is a service for heterosexual cheaters only.
…the media in its glee to point and laugh at other people seem to be forgetting a very important fact:
The reality is that we don’t know how many of these email addresses are real and how many are fake.
Only 4000 belonged to Bill Clinton.
The leaked data also contains credit card transaction information. People simply browsing the site might have used any email address, but those paying for memberships used real credit cards with their real names and street addresses. I would wager that at least some number of the .gov addresses in the database will be linked to credit card transactions.
…well when you’ve finished linking those credit card details to some number of .gov addresses then we will have something to talk about. But you haven’t, and no-one else has, so lets stop pretending we know how many government employees and contractors were members of the site when the reality is we don’t have a clue.
I said:
Not sure how you’re taking that to mean that I’m pretending to know how many, but I guarantee there will be some. Maybe including yours dickface.
…who the hell pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
Well, a GOP state executive director turned up. Fortunately, he has a good excuse:
And I’m sure he can produce the check stub showing he was reimbursed by his employer, right?
You are missing the point: when you use an e-mail address provided by your employer, you have given up any expectation of privacy because your employer can always see what you’re doing (even if your employer does not forbid personal use of the account). I feel bad for people whose marriages are adversely affected by this leak, to the extent that any cheater is deserving of sympathy. I don’t feel bad for people whose jobs are affected.
He’s claiming that he only signed up to do “opposition research”. Is that seriously his excuse? Hahahaha
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ashley-madison-louisiana-gop-research
A lot, most perhaps, of those emails are fake. On the other hand I saw that Bill Clinton (billclinton@whitehouse.gov) had an account and that was totally believeable. The wifey also: hildebeast@whitehouse.gov. And 42 other current and previous occupants or the White House, including president@whitehouse.gov. But really, I thought that was what you had the Secret Service for. If the Secret Service cannot even get whores for the president - the most powerful man in the world - what good are they?!
There’s also a lot of Brit government officials on the site. But you have to be 18 to sign up to AM and we all know those fuckers are only after underage boys, so totally fake there as well.
One MP’s so-called account has been thoroughly debunked; I expect others to follow. AM required no verification, so it’s easy to sign up someone else.
Unless these were verified accounts, I wouldn’t read anything into it. You, I, or anyone can go sign up on any website at any time with the email address barack.obama@whitehouse.gov.
For well known people, the obvious, and likely true, excuse is that someone else used their name and email.
For some unknown Joe Blow, it seems a lot less likely that someone would use their name, so they may have trouble convincing their wife or employer of that.
Well, I work for one of the largest private (non-govt, publicly traded) companies in the world and our policy is very clear that some personal use of email is just fine, so long as it doesn’t interfere with work and stays within acceptable use policy (i.e., porn). So I don’t know if Ashley Madison would run afoul of that part of the policy, but I suspect that a single employee using it for online dating would be within the acceptable policy.
FWIW, our policy is similar for internet usage. Ordering flowers for one’s mother is a given example of acceptable use.
And the policy was the same at a different Fortune 50 company I used to work for.
rightfully, they look at is as a whole- are you getting your work done, and are you doing anything that is inappropriate.
It would certainly be within a company’s rights to forbid all non-work use, but in my experience that’s not the norm.
True enough, but somewhat bitterly amusing, too, given that the government itself gave up my security clearance file.