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These hackers weren't on some moral crusade or anything of the sort, they just saw Ashley Madison boasting and guaranteeing that its members information would remain private as a challenge of sorts.
The reality is that there is no site that can guarantee 100% privacy, if its linked in, someone will be able to find a way in. Its the risk you take being online. Adult dating website profiles can also just as easily wind up being personal banking or credit card accounts and other sensitive financial and personal data.
Which is exactly why people who cheat should be fully aware that any number of things could bring their "activities" to light. It's a risk they take, and it's probably speeding up the inevitable.
Agreed it was a crime to hack AM. Maybe just the names would even be one thing, but financial info and contact information is just as evil, if not moreso.
Everyone, including myself, needs to know that your information is available and public, no matter what the website says about it's incryption and security. Google yourselves. Good luck returning NO photos and NO information whatsoever.
I have tried to clear myself from the web, and cannot do it.
Good for them! Hopefully their spouses find out and leave them.
Agree. And in a fair world anyone with our POV should be forced to take in all of the now homeless cheating scum after the courts liquidate all their assets and give them to the grieving spouses and/or children.
That is a really ignorant thing to say. They are exposing crimes, even if they "commit a crime" to do it. Many areas do have infidelity laws, even if those laws are not enforced.
Saying "What if they released your IRS filings" is creating an absurd comparison. What if the person bagging your groceries put your children in bags? How is that even remotely related to them bagging groceries? Why would that come up in the conversation? Yes, they put things in bags for a living, but that doesn't mean they are randomly throwing children into the bags. In the same way suggesting that there is any link between exposing a cheating POS and causing innocent people to become the victim of identify thefts is the very definition of ignorant analysis.
Heroes?! They're criminals. These so-called "heroes" broke into a computer system and stole personal information because they didn't like the service that the site provided. These "heroes" victimized a business that provided a legal service, in order to expose its users. There is nothing heroic about either the act, or the outcome. The hackers are criminals, nothing more, nothing less. I hope they are identified and arrested.
I'm cool with that particular slippery slope. The slippery slope I'm worried about, is the violation of confidentiality of lawful activity.
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