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Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by jdalgetty »

It get's me that so many people are basically saying it serves these people right for using the service.

I don't think that it matters that this is a "cheating" site, your privacy should still be guarded and it's not fair that all these people are being exposed.

Secondly, I'd wager that many of the users sign up to use Ashley Madison for the thrill of the idea and probably aren't actually cheaters themselves or hooking up with other cheaters. A lot of the users are probably into the idea of roll playing or something similar.

It's just too bad because I think due to the nature of the site a lot of people's private information is going to be leaked because this hacking group thinks they are doing something righteous and justified.

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Post by Fogest »

rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #123

If you're going to cheat, expect to be caught. If your search for sex involves putting any personal information online, definitely expect to be caught. If you don't want to be caught, be careful, use pseudonyms, and protect yourself from tracking. Or just ask for a divorce.

What about people who are single and using the site? People can easily lie to their significant other and cheat on them, people can also just as easily join the site without actually cheating on anyone.

Also what about the people who are in a relationship and they enjoy finding other people to perform sexual acts with? They may be on the site looking for someone else but not necessarily to cheat.

There are still innocent people on the site, and do they deserve to have this exposed? Have everyone, parents, bosses, etc... thinking they are a dirty cheater? No, that really isn't fair.

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by rm_-rf_slash »

spacemanmatt wrote: post #139
rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #123

If you're going to cheat, expect to be caught. If your search for sex involves putting any personal information online, definitely expect to be caught. If you don't want to be caught, be careful, use pseudonyms, and protect yourself from tracking. Or just ask for a divorce.

Or an open relationship. There are many options people may choose.

That I'm fine with as long as it's open and honest. Alternatively, there is the Japanese angle of "It's not cheating if I pay for it."

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Post by curiousjorge »

rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #123

If you're going to cheat, expect to be caught. If your search for sex involves putting any personal information online, definitely expect to be caught. If you don't want to be caught, be careful, use pseudonyms, and protect yourself from tracking. Or just ask for a divorce.

Don't meet strangers or cheat on your SO with someone you know or work with, period. Or just break it off and find someone new, why act dishonorably and making others miserable?

All in all, I don't know why people cheat if they are happily married and their spouses are great. Seems to me the risks far outweigh the rewards. Then again, I don't understand why people get married in the first place.

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by crikli »

spacemanmatt wrote: post #139
rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #123

If you're going to cheat, expect to be caught. If your search for sex involves putting any personal information online, definitely expect to be caught. If you don't want to be caught, be careful, use pseudonyms, and protect yourself from tracking. Or just ask for a divorce.

Or an open relationship. There are many options people may choose.

Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters.

Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?

Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but ... But it might work for us.

Re: Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked

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Post by MertsA »

mcphage wrote: post #118
MertsA wrote: post #27

Not too surprising. Security in the past has been worse than abysmal on that site. I had a friend that jokingly made an account and sent me a link to his profile. However, that link was also his entire session. Once in the profile section it would let you change the password without knowing the current password. And the last kicker, the change password box had asterisks in it on page load and a quick "view source" re…

> I had a friend that jokingly made an account "a friend"

Had it not been a friend I would have assumed as he did that the session id wasn't just slapped in the URL. What was great was when I sent him back "f1reball" and nothing else and he didn't believe that I could have possibly gotten that from the link he sent me.
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