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The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

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Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

#41

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 front page still says "Over 38,855,000 anonymous members!"

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

#43

There'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.

You're making unwarranted assumptions about who uses the site. It is marketed at cheating spouses but there are plenty of people on there who are single, in open marriages etc.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

#44
Question: what are the legalities for downloading and performing analysis on the dataset?

The 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.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

#45

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 front page still says "Over 38,855,000 anonymous members!"

"Over 490 anonymous members!" would be pretty funny

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

#46

There'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…

I downvote a bunch of these style of posts because they're i) really unpleasant judgemental gloating or ii) idiotic assumptions.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

#47

There'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…

You sound sincere. Part of it may be the fact that, generally, you are violating "judge not lest thee be judged" and specifically, outing the adulterers also stands to cause real harm to their families, and also many of us know of circumstances where covert extramarital affairs kept families together in a good way.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

#49
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This 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.

HN seems to be tolerant of people's personal beliefs, until those begin to be used to judge other people.

Also, there's a bunch of assumptions being made about AM and its customers and the emails released by hackers.

Re: The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

#50

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.

Surprisingly, the passwords are probably the only thing safe. Looks like they were hashed with bcrypt.
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