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Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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post #6

Good. I hope the company goes bankrupt. People murder other people and kill themselves over shit like this.

if stuff like this goes public, people that may have not killed others or themselves, might in fact do so now. and if this site shuts down, another one will likely take its place.

(but i'm still hoping they go bankrupt too)

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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post #7
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can actually submit any bogus name and address when you pay with a credit card- in most cases, the payment will go through if the zip and CVV match. Most carders know this, but the honest costomers do not...

You don't always need the CVV. A lot of processors will be fine with card number, expiry, zipcode, and the street number of your address. Sometimes I try giving wrong information to see what will happen. Usually, it works.

Stripe makes CVV collection optional, for sure.

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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post #9

It couldn't have happened to a more deserving site.

Why is it deserving of this? Genuinely interested.

Cheating can cause a lot of emotional harm. Imagine a site for people to commit minor sexual assaults and publish the pictures of the victims. That would be easier to think of as deserving of being hacked though neither is causing tangible physical harm.

The article also gives the reason that they apparently falsely sold customers a "delete your information" fee without actually deleting it. That kind of fraud can only really be exposed by hacking or whistleblowing.

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it deserving of this? Genuinely interested.

Cheating can cause a lot of emotional harm. Imagine a site for people to commit minor sexual assaults and publish the pictures of the victims. That would be easier to think of as deserving of being hacked though neither is causing tangible physical harm. The article also gives the reason that they apparently falsely sold customers a "delete your information" fee without actually deleting it. That kind of fraud can on…

No. You are publishing pictures of someone without their permission. That is not the same.

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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post #9

It couldn't have happened to a more deserving site.

Why is it deserving of this? Genuinely interested.

I don't understand why you're genuinely interested. Whether You agree with the statement or not, you already know why it was made.

"Genuinely interested" here is just bate for someone to "genuinely" argue with you and waste their time.

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