I think a lot of people go on one those sites for fantasy and out of curiosity. Even if they do have an affair, outing them is just wrong. The fall out could be horrible for families, children, work....
Of course the fallout of an affair would be horrible, but the primary blame for that lies with the cheater. Don't have an affair in the first place, and you won't have to deal with the fallout.
If you're going to cheat on your spouse, you need to prepared to deal with the consequences of being found out.
The wives, SOs and children should not be re-victimized which is what often happens.
Nope. Sorry. Still a big difference. If you are paying to join a dating site - whether it's designed as one to cheat on your spouse or not - and you are interacting with other live human beings who are also there to date or cheat, I don't give a shit if you don't plan on physically acting on it.
Watching porn involves fantasy. Joining a website to meet other men or women - whether or not you actually have sex - goes beyond that.
I guess this would be one of those things that comes down to individual couples and what their level of comfort is.
Well, sure. Some couples have open relationships. I'm not judging people who use this site with the permission or understanding of their spouses. Your spouse is cool with it? Go for it.
But they are NOT the same. And most people who are okay with their spouses watching porn, are NOT going to be quite as understanding if he or she says that they just joined Ashley Madison to engage in a little harmless fantasy.
Post by chittybangbang on Jul 20, 2015 19:50:54 GMT -5
That Dlisted article is gross. Why was it so focused on the women who have signed up to cheat? I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say that the majority of AM users aren't women.
That Dlisted article is gross. Why was it so focused on the women who have signed up to cheat? I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say that the majority of AM users aren't women.
That Dlisted article is gross. Why was it so focused on the women who have signed up to cheat? I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say that the majority of AM users aren't women.
I didn't get that from it at all - I read it as referring to any of the sites users, male or female.
Huh. I don't give two shits about AM or the people who join it or the people who cheat on their spouses, because it's none of my business.
Some interest group pissed off about the business dealings of a website and threatening to release personal information about people does bother me. Cheating sucks, but so does releasing personal information about people possibly doing things that are no one's business.
They may have 37 million users but they aren't all paid users (meaning they don't have everyone's real name)
Plus I wonder how many are just people signing up that are curious or checking to see if they can find their spouse on there.
Also random fun fact: AM day if the year with most visits: February 15
i * think* to even download the app (which I assume is most of their traffic) you have to pay $$. I thought that woudl go through iTunes or Apple or whoever, not AM directly. Maybe the "App" is free, but creating an account is $$. I obviously don't know the details
I thought of this too, but the fact that the hacker was pissed about the delete option not actually deleting anything doesn't line up with that idea for me.
I wonder how they found out the files weren't actually being deleted and thus chose to go after them and expose it? Or if they attacked first and then noticed?
I thought of this too, but the fact that the hacker was pissed about the delete option not actually deleting anything doesn't line up with that idea for me.
I wonder how they found out the files weren't actually being deleted and thus chose to go after them and expose it? Or if they attacked first and then noticed?
Good point. Maybe it was a user whose spouse found out because it wasn't DELETED deleted.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
Y'all do realize that AM has to inform every single customer that they may have been hacked. I wonder if they can do that just by email or if they have to mail letters.
I hope they have to mail letters. That way I don't have to stay up with this story. I can just wait until the conspicuously inconspicuous letter arrives at my house.
this should be really interesting- hopefully if thre are updates to this story, somebody will see them....
I assume AM is refusing to close their site? When are the hackers threatening to release more names/info?
Doesn't the DOJ or SEC get involved in massive data breeches like this? just to secure citizens info & make sure the "clean up" procedure is sufficient to notify everybody?