I’d read people saying that the obvious thing to do was to buy one of those Visa pre-paid gift cards and use that. Keeps your name from being connected, and has the bonus of being a set amount so there’s a limit on how much you could be charged.
A lot of people don’t really understand how all that magical computer stuff works.
It seems pretty clear that Ashley Madison was just a big scam. There hardly seem to be any women on it. It reminds me of those 1-900 lines from the 90s where hot women in your area want to talk to you. I wonder if very many people ever had affairs from connections made on their site.
Also, did AM host any other sites? is it possible a person’s name and email is in the data dump because they signed up for something other than AM?
A lot of folks in our little legal community here have been “outed.” Including several lawyers, law enforcement officers, and one Judge’s husband. I predict a lot of misery from this.
The hackers claimed 90-95% male; I heard the “joke” that it was millions of men chasing thousands of prostitutes…
Yes, a site called Established Men; “Established Men is an online dating site that connects Young, Beautiful Women with Successful Men”. IIRC the parent company of AM and EM is called Avid Life Media.
I believe data from EM is included among the data dumps.
Someone else relatively high profile has been found: Sam Rader, a popular Youtube vlogger. If you have heard of him (which I realize many people have not), he got viral fame recently for doing a pregnancy test on his wife’s urine which was sitting in the toilet, and telling her she was pregnant. Then a few days later the couple announced to everyone that there was a miscarriage.
For most internet personalities it probably wouldn’t matter if they were found on there, but he’s a conservative Christian, who posts videos with his wife on family, marriage, and Bible study. They had a video where they convinced their five-year-old daughter that gay marriage is wrong. So he’s someone else I’m not too bothered by them being outed as being on AM.
Yeah, me too. I’m not into witch hunts, but people that spend their lives telling the rest of us to follow their rules (which include not cheating on your spouse) deserve to be outed.
Just as much as your wife’s
I’d be interested to see some data mining on the data as a bulk… what states/regions had the highest proportion of signups, etc.
(crosses fingers that there is a correlation between AM and proportion of fundamental xians, or some such hilarious irony…)
Oh noes! :eek:
My husband has no interest in computers, so for him to do it, I would have had to sign him up. I didn’t, so why look?
Years ago, before the advent of the internet, I did some IT work for a firm that was big in the phone sex business. They had a coast-to-coast presence and umpteen tens of thousands of customers.
Pretty much their customer demographics matched the popularity of the Baptist church. The more Bible Beltish the locale, the higher percentage of residents were this company’s customers.
Yeah, it’s him. He made the account. I guess he told his wife and church 2 years ago.
By the way, that dude’s(Rader) wife has weird eyebrows.
If the site is there in order to facilitate covert meetings, and no meetings ever took place because the women weren’t real, what would the motivation be on the part of Ashley Madison to deceive its own customers like that? 
It seems like a very short-sighted scheme, as no customers would ever return and word would spread online and business would die.
Now I can understand this scheme, it’s all over the traditional dating sites.
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Does it? Then how has it stayed a (I’d assume) profitable website for all these years? I don’t get it. People would flock to various blogs and websites to cry foul over the deception if they’ve been such an obvious scam for so long.
I must admit that for me there’s a certain schadenfreude about this data hack – kind of centers around the idea of jerks and homewreckers getting what they deserve. Call me old fashioned, but it always astounded me that there was an actual business engaged in this sort of low-life bullshit.
That would require many men to publicly announce both that they intended to be unfaithful and that they couldn’t get a date.
From the actions of the cheaters you mean.
The funniest thing is that Ashley Madison’s founder always claimed that the site was pro women, because it evened the cheating field for them.
After I just Honked Sirius’ clown nose and given that my email is listed here?
No Bet.
The only real bet is whether the IP that registered it and the cc that would have had to pay for it is from Westchester or Long Island.