I don’t know how useful looking at the data would be. I think people are mostly identified by email address only. Only an idiot wouldn’t use a burner email address for this.
Counterpoint: one of the interesting things that articles are posting is that 15,000 of the emails can from .mil or .gov accounts which can easily be traced back to the user and are obvious breeches in terms of use for government and military accounts. I don’t know about .gov but for the military your email address has to be your name.
Really, no email verification at all? I can’t remember signing up for any online account without a “click this link we email to you to verify your email address”.
I think I can agree that this is junior modding. Cut it out.
As for the post you are commenting on, no I don’t think it is threadshitting. OP asked a question which could either be answered yes or no. There is nothing wrong with answering no and expounding on why. The tone of the reply may have seemed to be little self-righteous to some. I can understand that and also see no problem with some of the replies to that post. But lets not make this into a hijack about the benefits or problems with polyamorous relationships or about the attitude of a poster.
If anyone has a problem with the comment by Lucretia or any other poster take it to the Pit. If you want to start a discussion about open relationships go right ahead in another thread.
I used this site this morning to input one ex boyfriend’s email address. As far as I know there’s nothing malicious on the page. There’s a Google Analytics script for tracking (like 99% of all other websites uses) and some bulk javascript libraries that are very common.
I got the URLfrom this Buzzfeed article where the writer looks up and finds her ex’s email address and writes the most boring article ever about it.
The tone of the reply was, actually, self righteous, not to mention snotty, and I apologize for it, I should have worded it differently. I also see no problems with some of the replies, and I appreciate being called on my tone.
This seems like the desperate wrangling of someone who knows his life is about to be ruined. The file doesn’t contain any viruses–you can see what files it contains before it downloads. The data is not necessarily flimsy, because advanced users can cross reference credit card records with email records. If someone made a payment to Ashley Madison, that will be associated with their email address and provide near-certain proof that the person was genuinely using their account. The file also contains a hash designed to prove that no one (apart from the creators) could have tampered with it.
And reliable sources indicate that the data leaked was legitimate.
I expect hackers to start mass emailing users within a few days.
I’m a bit surprised there haven’t been more high profile revelations as yet. There’s gotta be some Senator or Governor on there. I think this has potential to be larger than just a salacious special interest story ultimately.
It ewill be interesting to see what claims are being made about this. Of course, one can always claim fraud. Or if you are a Bill Clinton, what would it matter?
Considering I’ve read that something like 95%+ of the users are men, being on the list isn’t necessarily evidence that you had an affair…just that you tried to or thought about it.
I predict that AshleyMadison.com and its parent will see an extreme decline in business over the coming year.
This is primed to be way more dangerous than initially thought (or at least my initial thoughts). According to an article in the Atlanta Journal today, there are many:
*.gov and .mil email addresses. That could potentially cost people their career.
*.sa addresses. That could potentially cost people their life, as adultry is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia
Not to mention the whole Pandora’s box of hackers enforcing their morals via blackmail/name and shame tactics. Scary.
I agree. I’m not married, and even if I was, I wouldn’t look on there for my husband’s name. But if someone else told me he was on there, it wouldn’t be immediate grounds for divorce, I’d maybe ask why he was on there, and what he was hoping for, and see if there was a major issue that needed to resolved in our marriage or if it was just boredom/fantasizing.
There are probably a few high profile people, but I think most high profile people are smart enough to use fake info that can’t be traced back to them, or are smart enough to find other ways to have affairs. I figure that part of the duties for the staff of a politician is getting women discreetly in and out of the office or hotel room of the politician, no need to bring Ashley Madison into it. Josh Duggar was on and I think that’s hilarious, but I’d be very surprised if any of the presidential candidates or anyone super high profile was found on it.