Ashley Madison Hacked

"Indeed, more than 15,000 of the email addresses used to register accounts were hosted on government and military servers.

Buried in the list are emails that could be tied to multiple administration agencies, including the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, as well as several tied to both the House and Senate. "

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/251431-ashley-madison-leak-appears-real-includes-thousands-of-government-emails

15,000 emails leveled by hackers were government emails including State Department Officials.

These people deserve whatever happens to them.

Which people? The ones that got their privacy destroyed regardless of immoral deeds?

Ut-oh

Originally posted by psmith81992
Which people? The ones that got their privacy destroyed regardless of immoral deeds?

Joining an adultery site and expecting it to never get hacked is just idiotic. I'm all for internet privacy, but the fact is that it doesn't really exist with hackers, so don't do anything on the internet that could possibly ruin your life if it got out.

Originally posted by psmith81992
Which people? The ones that got their privacy destroyed regardless of immoral deeds?

He is probably ok with the government spying on us/invading our privacy as well.

Try not to push people to the extremes. It's rarely correct. He's saying that they should have known better; he's not absolving the hackers.

Known better or not isn't the issue though, while I don't agree with cheating on ones' spouse, it's not illegal and my personal morals shouldn't be the deciding factor.

Is this really so different than some ******* hacking a hospital database and posting people's (possibly embarrassing) medical records online and then others saying 'oh well, you should have known the risk of telling your doctor in this day and age that you have genital warts and a prolapsed rectum'?

Invasion of privacy is what I'm getting at, it's usually wrong. Though I will admit I found a high level of schadenfreude when I read that Josh Duggar, the homophobic "Family Values" guy had an account and paid a substantial amount in trying to cheat on his wife. But he's a known rapist and a hypocrite, so I don't feel bad.

Originally posted by Robtard
Known better or not isn't the issue though, while I don't agree with cheating on ones' spouse, it's not illegal and my personal morals shouldn't be the deciding factor.

Is this really so different than some ******* hacking a hospital database and posting people's (possibly embarrassing) medical records online and then others saying 'oh well, you should have known the risk of telling your doctor in this day and age that you have genital warts and a prolapsed rectum'?

Invasion of privacy is what I'm getting at, it's usually wrong. Though I will admit I found a high level of schadenfreude when I read that Josh Duggar, the homophobic "Family Values" guy had an account and paid a substantial amount in trying to cheat on his wife. But he's a known rapist and a hypocrite, so I don't feel bad.

We already knew he was a creepy guy, this does not surprise me.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Am I supposed to feel bad for them?

Joining an adultery site and expecting it to never get hacked is just idiotic. I'm all for internet privacy, but the fact is that it doesn't really exist with hackers, so don't do anything on the internet that could possibly ruin your life if it got out.

You don't have to feel bad for them. But that's a far cry from "they got what they deserved". That's like me saying the exact same thing about illegal immigrants getting deported, which you would no doubt defend vigorously.

Known better or not isn't the issue though, while I don't agree with cheating on ones' spouse, it's not illegal and my personal morals shouldn't be the deciding factor.

Is this really so different than some ******* hacking a hospital database and posting people's (possibly embarrassing) medical records online and then others saying 'oh well, you should have known the risk of telling your doctor in this day and age that you have genital warts and a prolapsed rectum'?

Invasion of privacy is what I'm getting at, it's usually wrong. Though I will admit I found a high level of schadenfreude when I read that Josh Duggar, the homophobic "Family Values" guy had an account and paid a substantial amount in trying to cheat on his wife. But he's a known rapist and a hypocrite, so I don't feel bad.

Yeah I have to agree with Robtard here. Whatever your personal judgement about it, people have a right to be adulterous and by extension a right to privacy about it. This leak was done to punish AM for shady practice but it's going to do a heck of a lot more to hurt the clients than the company.

In my experience adultery is a very complex area anyway. The very existence of a site like AM says a lot about the human condition- though the accusation that it was padding its membership with false (mostly female) profiles to encourage sign ups is very telling as well, if true.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
These people deserve whatever happens to them.

Oh ok I get it. If some people do things that are against my morals, they have less right to whatever it is than other people? If I dislike a rich person and his house gets burglarized, I don't give a crap because **** him, he's rich. But if it's a minority or illegal immigrant or god forbid a homosexual couple, BURN THE PERPETRATORS! The double standards are astounding.

Indeed.

Originally posted by psmith81992
Oh ok I get it. If some people do things that are against my morals, they have less right to whatever it is than other people? If I dislike a rich person and his house gets burglarized, I don't give a crap because **** him, he's rich. But if it's a minority or illegal immigrant or god forbid a homosexual couple, BURN THE PERPETRATORS! The double standards are astounding.

Originally posted by psmith81992
Oh ok I get it. If some people do things that are against my morals, they have less right to whatever it is than other people? If I dislike a rich person and his house gets burglarized, I don't give a crap because **** him, he's rich. But if it's a minority or illegal immigrant or god forbid a homosexual couple, BURN THE PERPETRATORS! The double standards are astounding.

Originally posted by NemeBro
What an emotional outburst this is.

Don't think you understand what an emotional outburst is. With your tiny brain, I assume anytime caps are used. I know fully well where OV is coming from. The point was pretty obvious, even if it went over your head.

Lol, where the hell is this coming from?

I have a hard time feeling bad too. Not because I agree with the hack - I don't - or because I don't see the need for privacy (I do). It's just hard to care about something I am so detached from. It's not hard to see why someone would feel indifferent toward this, even if, on a philosophical level, they abhor the hack. Trying to understand a position is usually more productive than painting them as a caricature of everything you disagree with.

And on that note, it seems this is already relevant again:

Originally posted by Digi
Try not to push people to the extremes. It's rarely correct. He's saying that they should have known better; he's not absolving the hackers.

Then what you're saying is, when signing up for something online, you should not have a reasonable expectation of privacy?

Originally posted by psmith81992
Oh ok I get it. If some people do things that are against my morals, they have less right to whatever it is than other people? If I dislike a rich person and his house gets burglarized, I don't give a crap because **** him, he's rich. But if it's a minority or illegal immigrant or god forbid a homosexual couple, BURN THE PERPETRATORS! The double standards are astounding.