Except for the “mostly”, you are correct.
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LOL, think how many $19 payments they will receive in the next few days as news of the hack spreads.
Thanks to the scaling made possible by the internet, you don’t have to spend a lot of time finding one good mark you can blackmail for tens of thousands of dollars.
Right, the investigation as to whom hacked whom should start internally. This is basically highway robbery or blackmail, potentially I should say.
If you look at it like that, they should’ve charged $119.00 to wipe your account or more because, what’s it worth to some anonymous but easily damaged customers?
In the gauzy past, we would get a famous person’s “love letters” to their mistress and it would paint a fuller picture of the person. In the future, we will get their “dick pics”
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Expose the cheaters ! I have zero tolerance for cheaters.My Ex was a cheater.Expose them so their spouses will learn the truth.
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I Googled the lyrics because I had a feeling I’d heard it some time, and it shows its age
Well, I’d rather my man would hit me
Than for him to jump up and quit me
Ain’t nobody’s business if I do
I swear I won’t call no copper, if I’m beat up by my papa
Ain’t nobody’s business if I do, nobody’s business
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There are some nervous men and women out there right now!!!
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Well, spouses of those who have one-night stands with strangers have a pretty serious claim to that business, considering the “gifts that keep on giving,” such as herpes and AIDS just to name two incurable diseases.
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I think both you and chammy are correct. Privacy should be afforded to all. If one if a bloviator about “family values,” bad gays, etc., and a cheater/not true to bloviating rhetoric, then all bets are off and one should be fair game.
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Oh, I agree. It should still stay between the people involved–and yes the spouses are certainly involved.
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And yet, this has always been considered a very romantic song
Its about a guy cheating on his significant other, and finds her cheating on him.
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I don’t support cyber terrorism even if I disagree with the people that the terrorists are using as hostages. I also don’t support terrorism when I agree with the terrorists’ ideals.
I too have been cuckolded and I abhor cheating. I still can’t condone abusing large groups of people like this.
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Well it IS an old song and has been done many times, with lots of varying lyrics. But I’ve always been partial to the Dinah Washington version. No wife-beating lyrics in it (although admittedly she does say it’s her business if she lets her companion push her in a canyon–but still the point is she would be the one choosing to let it happen). And she is an awesome singer.
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Abusing a large population of people because they are seen as immoral and/or won’t fight back sounds familiar. I too am not in favor.
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You would think this type of company would have the very best in security! Not only are they scum they have proven themselves stupid, as well.
So why didn’t Gawker publish the hacked info?
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Phil Spector released a song in the Sixties called He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A), and surprisingly it was written by then 20 years old Carole King Backlash was awful, but Spector did not back down (he was convicted of killing a woman some time back so obviously there was always something nasty lurking in him.).
I agree, and with your response to CVilleDem below. But, if Ashley Madison etc are not “hacked” then will the other person involved ever learn that information which is pretty damned important to their financial, relationship, and physical health? Yeah, you can say that it will all eventually come out in the end, but we know how much damage is done by this kind of thing every day and the earlier it is known the less damage is done.
I don’t know. A website whose sole purpose is to allow people to lie to other people in an incredibly hurtful and dangerous way doesn’t get my “give a fuck” condolences card when it gets hacked. I don’t want to know the information that was exposed, but if my wife was on that list I’d damn well want to know (that said, I have no doubts or insecurities there to begin with so I wouldn’t go looking for it). I think of it more like password breach notification sites, where after a password breach you put your username in and it tells you if that username exists in the breached password set. I’d rather know that I’ve been screwed over so I can rectify it; taking down that breach notification service wouldn’t help anyone but the shady folks capitalizing off the stolen information. In this case, Ashley Madison - as legal as they are - fills the same role as the password-stealing hackers in the password breach, and these hackers - as illegal as they are and likely nefarious-purposed as they are - fill a role more like the site where one can search to see if your password was compromised.
Anyway, yes, people’s private lives don’t matter at all. A man cheating on his wife isn’t my business, unless I have a stake in that man’s honesty and character (in other words, it damned well is important if that is a politician seeking my vote). But keeping that information from the man’s wife is grossly immoral, and revealing it at least partially rectifies the immorality.
Generally scum (shorthand for people who are able to self-justify immoral acts or who are sociopathic enough to not even feel such justification is necessary) seek after short-term profits. Why waste money hiring competent security professionals instead of spending that money on more advertising or CEO salaries?
What is that saying? You swim with the sharks and you’re gonna get bit?
I can understand not giving a fuck about the company Ashley Madison. I don’t understand condoning stealing 40,000,000 people’s information and holding it ransom to get your agenda recognized and implemented.
These are probably not 40,000,000 evil people who are currently cheating on their spouses. It’s likely a much more diverse group than that. And even if it was all evil cheaters, I doubt I could side with the hackers or condone their actions.
I recognize that this is a targeted group that willfully associated with AM for one reason or another, and therefore it’s not the same as sweeping up everybody’s text messages everywhere and searching them for evidence of cheating and then ransoming that info, but it’s just too close to that for my comfort.
When it comes to public servants, well… that’s another story.
But keeping that information from the man’s wife is grossly immoral, and revealing it at least partially rectifies the immorality.
This is more pertinent to someone who accidentally found out about a friend’s spouse cheating, than to hackers stealing data and holding it ransom to impose their will. Also, keep in mind that women are cheating as much as men these days. Equality FTW!!!
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