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The list of .gov and State govt email accounts is public transparency. Someone should extract those and turn them over to Muckrock.
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This is a great comment, Thomas. I had an argument with my girlfriend about this. No matter what reasoning I used, no matter what I said, she could not agree that it was wrong that Ashley Madison (A.M.) was hacked. Her position was that marital infidelity is such a pubishable offense that the participants on A.M. deserve to be publicly outed. In her view, it was not even up for debate. She felt so powerfully about in…
Tell her that two wrongs never make a right.
The response to this this on Twitter would be beyond fucked- up if it weren't so completely predictable. People are posting direct links to the dump, screenshots of lists of emails, and statistics for classes of domains. The general reaction to the availability of the dump is reasonably characterized as "glee". But no matter what you think about Ashley Madison --- and I think A.M. is so comically scummy that I had tr…
And marital infidelity is unethical even if it isn't illegal. It's pretty FUCKING SHITTY to lie to your SO, sometimes for YEARS, exposing them to disease and finally ridicule and humiliation, and their own right to make informed choices about their precious time and trust they invest in a person. It is selfish and rotten and deprives the other person of agency.
edit: on this account I have complained about Internet mob culture multiple times. I was hoping that people would recognize that I was pointing out the hypocrisy of people on this who don't care when it happens to people who do things they personally hate, but I was way too subtle. Resharing this data is a shitty thing to do, but it will happen again and who decides at that point that it's still shitty entirely depends on who is being exposed.
The response to this this on Twitter would be beyond fucked- up if it weren't so completely predictable. People are posting direct links to the dump, screenshots of lists of emails, and statistics for classes of domains. The general reaction to the availability of the dump is reasonably characterized as "glee". But no matter what you think about Ashley Madison --- and I think A.M. is so comically scummy that I had tr…
I have also noticed the really strange response from what feels like (anecdotally, I admit) EVERYONE being ecstatic that not only did this leak happen, but that Ashley Madison's users are "getting what's coming to them".
The comparison to fighting against a terrorism-inspired surveillance state was great.
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This is a great comment, Thomas. I had an argument with my girlfriend about this. No matter what reasoning I used, no matter what I said, she could not agree that it was wrong that Ashley Madison (A.M.) was hacked. Her position was that marital infidelity is such a pubishable offense that the participants on A.M. deserve to be publicly outed. In her view, it was not even up for debate. She felt so powerfully about in…
It's like, you know who has a stronger opinion about wrongdoing than people who dislike infidelity? The people who picket abortion clinics. Also: there's a neat parallel to the NSA here, in that a substantial portion of the users registered for A.M. probably haven't been unfaithful, and are getting "dragnetted" up with the people who have, because who's going to take the time to sort that out?
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This is a great comment, Thomas. I had an argument with my girlfriend about this. No matter what reasoning I used, no matter what I said, she could not agree that it was wrong that Ashley Madison (A.M.) was hacked. Her position was that marital infidelity is such a pubishable offense that the participants on A.M. deserve to be publicly outed. In her view, it was not even up for debate. She felt so powerfully about in…
We are never the infidels. Only "they" can be infidels.
One thing I found interesting was the suggestion from one of the comments that AM might be the ones dumping all the fake databases. If so this is a pretty clever strategy to try and hide a needle in a pile of needles.
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This is just one record, but that data is absolutely real. And I looked up this particular person because they struck me as exactly the userbase of the site.