I have signed up with a throwaway email and user name and yet I feel really uncomfortable that I receive updates from them as though nothing has happened. No "please change your password" or anything.
The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
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#43There's something poetic about people who use an Internet based service to commit adultery being exposed by crackers. With luck the fallout will break Ashley Madison too.
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#44The Washington Post has downloaded the dataset for journalism (https://twitter.com/pbump/status/633844944105512964), but I would be interested in looking at the statistics in the data for visualization purposes; however, that likely doesn't fall under journalistic shield.
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#45I have signed up with a throwaway email and user name and yet I feel really uncomfortable that I receive updates from them as though nothing has happened. No "please change your password" or anything.
The front page still says "Over 38,855,000 anonymous members!"
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#46There's something poetic about people who use an Internet based service to commit adultery being exposed by crackers. With luck the fallout will break Ashley Madison too.
Repost from a different, and now I think abandoned, thread: I'm curious - I keep getting downvoted whenever I criticise Ashley Madison on the grounds of morality. Why is this? This isn't a whinge about downvoting (if I didn't want to get downvoted I wouldn't keep posting about A-M), but a genuine inquiry into the reasons. Is it that people see discussions of morality as off-topic for HN? Do people disagree with my mo…
Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
#47There's something poetic about people who use an Internet based service to commit adultery being exposed by crackers. With luck the fallout will break Ashley Madison too.
Repost from a different, and now I think abandoned, thread: I'm curious - I keep getting downvoted whenever I criticise Ashley Madison on the grounds of morality. Why is this? This isn't a whinge about downvoting (if I didn't want to get downvoted I wouldn't keep posting about A-M), but a genuine inquiry into the reasons. Is it that people see discussions of morality as off-topic for HN? Do people disagree with my mo…
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#49This is my first time to learn about Ashley Madison. The business model actually disgusts me. I get the whole open relationship, but people who are actually married or in a committed relationship are using this site is just ridiculous. Either you break off with your current relationship, or stay loyal. BTW, those "secure" logo are just so useless I see them as sign of weakness rather than confidence. Anyone can place…
I'm curious why so many are downvoting. Do you disagree that the business model is disgusting, or just think it's inappropriate to say so about a peer's startup? I'm very curious to know what HNers think about this.
Also, there's a bunch of assumptions being made about AM and its customers and the emails released by hackers.
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#50I have signed up with a throwaway email and user name and yet I feel really uncomfortable that I receive updates from them as though nothing has happened. No "please change your password" or anything.