No. I can understand checking out, say, the Fappening images to see what people were talking about or just to see what these gorgeous people looked like naked.
But here it’s just raw data. There’s nothing to see. If something does get reported, you’ve got all the information right there–no need to look for yourself. And, unless you have an odd fetish, you’re not going to get off on it.
I never even heard of Ashley Madison until the news broke.
Besides, I’ve never cheated and I’ve only had a spouse for five days anyway.
While I am relieved to find out I’m not on Ashley Madison’s list, I am horrified to find out I am on Oscar Madison’s list 
Think of all the fun the bad guys can have by simply taking any list of emails they’ve harvested from any source whatsoever and putting it out there as “found on Ashley Madison.”
It’s funny how many people want to believe bad people behave honestly except at the punch line. Not true in general.
I heard of Ashley Madison before the news broke… because they’ve advertised out in the open in the Toronto area. I thought the whole idea was appalling and stupid. It’s definitely evidence that something is very screwed up, so to speak, in some people. If you can’t live up to your marriage vows, change them, or don’t make them in the first place!
If they didn’t verify accounts, then could people could just enter any email address for their account (e.g brad.pitt@gmail.com) and it will show up in this database?
I know spammers use automated programs to create fake accounts on sites so that they can spam those users (as we sometimes see here on the Dope). When they create the spam account, they sometimes use real email addresses. So if AM didn’t validate the emails, I could easily see many of the emails being entered by spammers or by people just wanting to check out the site and not representing the person who actually owns the email address.
It seems there’s also another database with payment information. If someone also has valid payment information associated with their account in that payment database, then I would think it’s very likely it’s actually that person. But probably an email entry alone isn’t enough to say it’s actually that person.
Correct, but so far it’s only searchable by email, at least on the sites that have been linked here.
I saw a screenshot of the purported Duggar evidence; it appears to be copies of credit card charges, with the name and address of the card holder.
This.
And I Know I’m not on it.
Some lives may be ruined… and some radio hosts might need to learn how to sell cars.
Don’t Bitch, Sirius… at least you didn’t have to fire Jared.
Ron White is occasionally funny: “I’m not worried about the Ashley Madison hack, but I hope it’s not a problem for my good friend, also named Ron White.”
One off emails are easy to make. Getting credit cards in a different name are not as easy. I don’t know at what part of the sign up process you have to pay.
I had made my own profile on there a couple weeks ago, deleted it after 15 min, then told my husband what I did. He had to ask me what Ashley Madison was:smack:
Safe to say he isn’t on there:p
I doubt the wife has heard of Ashley Madison. Don’t think I did before the hacking made the news. But I wonder why so many people would use their real names when looking for an affair.
Nah, that was just a smokescreen on his part.
The website ZipperJJ posted says my email address was found! I have never signed up for ashley madison or any other dating or matchmaking websites.
I tried my wife, but hers wasn’t found.
My email isn’t hacked. Confused and humored by this.
I had heard of Ashley Madison years ago. Probably when it first started. They advertised on a radio show or two that I listened to. The premise certainly made the commercials stand out. I thought the site was pretty widely known.
Nope.
Hell, we both work full time, and we’ve got an 8 year old. If I wanted to have an affair (fuck that shit, I’ve finally got the life I always wanted to have, no way I’d risk blowing it), when the hell would I find the time?!
Needless to say, in the unlikely event that my wife was considering something on the side, she’d face the same challenge. So I’m not exactly worried.
You may not be, but your email address may be! You should check.
Mine is, and I’m not exactly shocked. My personal email is [first initial][last name]@gmail.com, and for years I’ve been collecting the names of other people with the same first initial and last name who give out that email as their own, who I know about because I get emails directed to them. (Sometimes I even get addresses, phone numbers, and once even a credit card number, of these alter egos of mine.)
There are more than a dozen of these people, despite the fact that I’ve got a very uncommon last name. My assumption is that one of these people used my email address to sign up for Ashley Madison, the way they use my email for purchases, job applications, rental agreements, and all sorts of other stuff.
I’m pretty sure I on the Dolly Madison list.
[sub]Mmmm, chocolate Zingers[/sub]
But why would they do this (not doubting you, just figuring this out!) when they can just sign up for fjlijwete24254@yahoo.com?
Some websites do simple email address verification to make sure the domain is real. If you enter a completely random email like fjlijwete24254@aisdfoudo.com, it may reject it because it knows there’s no hostname like that. An address like fjlijwete24254@yahoo.com would likely be accepted because yahoo.com is a valid domain, but the people making fake accounts probably don’t understand the difference. They know that oiuioudf@oaisudfoiu.com is rejected, so they use a real address like jsmith@gmail.com instead.