Maybe they aren’t all so good. I guess all of our wars don’t keep our soldiers totally occupied. They seem to have time for cheating on their wives. I can’t wait for a high level politician to be revealed. It’s just a matter of time, because we all know psychotic politicians are lowlife, slimeballs, with no morality or care for right or wrong. Cheating and lying are their lives.
Guest Post by Rob Price
Compromising details on thousands of military personnel have reportedly been leaked in the huge Ashley Madison hack
It includes everything from email addresses and financial information to sexual fantasies. In short, it’s a blackmailer’s paradise.
And according to one researcher, who goes by the Twitter handle t0x0pg, the dump contains more than 15,000 US military and governmental email addresses.
Most of these are military in nature: There are 6,788 us.army.mil addresses, for example, another 1,665 navy.mil ones, and 809 usmc.mil. Some of these may well be fake, and security researcher Graham Cluley points out that Ashley Madison doesn’t verify email addresses used to sign up (“so I could have created an account at Ashley Madison with the address of [email protected], but it wouldn’t have meant that Obama was a user of the site”).
Nonetheless, the sheer volume of military email addresses very strongly suggests that highly private information on many thousands of military personnel has been leaked online. Business Insider has not yet independently authenticated these findings.
Right now, we don’t have any real idea of who is behind the hack. The individual (or individuals) responsible refer to themselves as the “Impact Team.” They say they were motivated by the fact that Ashley Madison’s parent company, Avid Life Media, charges users to delete their information from the site.
Impact Team threatened to dump the full dataset on all Ashley Madison customers in July when the news of the hack first broke, and the group now appears to have followed through on that promise. The data was accompanied by a statement saying: “Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and [partner site] Established Men. We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data.”
It continues: “Keep in mind this site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world’s biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters.
“Find yourself in here. It was ALM that failed you and lied to you. Prosecute them and claim damages. Then move on with your life. Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you’ll get over it.”
In response to release, Avid Life Media said “this event is not an act of hacktivism — it is an act of criminality.”
“It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities. The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society. We will not sit idly by and allow these thieves to force their personal ideology on citizens around the world. We are continuing to fully cooperate with law enforcement to seek to hold the guilty parties accountable to the strictest measures of the law.”
I don’t endorse extra-marital affairs but in general believe it is a good idea to keep your nose out of other people’s marriages. You have no idea what goes on between a man and his wife, nor should you. The people who hacked and published this are thoughtless, evil people who had no right to delve into the personal lives of others. Speaking of that, take a look at the outstanding movie, “The Lives of Others”, about Communist snoopers in East Germany. After you do I doubt if you will see the people who did this as heroes. They aren’t.
As a software developer I think the digital revolution may be it’s own demise.
There’s a reason for the lack of security: Every server that has a face to the public, has to have it’s own security software / firewall / what ever. Add to this the many revisions of O/S’s, many patch levels, and a myriad of application programs – each with it’s own security holes. Each anti-virus / malaware vendor have their own vulnerabilities. Add to this Network Admins, many who are hacks, with little or no formal education. Put it all together and you see no server is very secure.
The reason for each server, each PC, architecture is greed. You see software is licensed by the ‘seat’ , and the distributed architecture makes for many, many, licenses. A lot more than a single mainframe.
IMO it’s going to get worse. As more and more sites are hacked, soon everyone’s info will be everywhere. Hack the IRS, DMV, hospitals, insurance companies, retailers, iPhones.
Once all the info is out there, the reliability to exchange valid data is going to become less and less. There will be too much ‘noise’.
Avid’s statement makes no sense. “Hactivists” are criminals, in the strictest sense. They break the law. That is NOT always a bad thing. Everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence, for instance, broke the law…committed treason in fact. Conversely, every heinous act committed in Auschwitz was entirely legal. We really need to separate malum in se (evil in and of itself) from malum prohibitum (behavior against the “law”).
So, is the Ashley Madison hack a good thing for society?
On one hand, it is a breach of privacy…
On the other hand it is a bitch slap to a corporation which acted deplorably (which we definitely need more of)…
On the the hypothetical third hand, it is funny as shit…
There should be one basic rule in the internet age for anyone with common sense:
Never do or say anything online you don’t want to become public knowledge.
It just shows the moral corruption throughout society. Southern it Damn well is my business what these people do in their personal lives. If a man will commit adultery and break the trust of his marriage vows then he will sell secrets to our enemies abroad. That’s where it all starts . If you have no loyalty to your marriage partner then you have no loyalty to our REPUBLIC. That’s what is wrong with so many of these Damn traitors in Washington. They liars who are morally rotten to the core.To said what people do in their private lives doesn’t effect their public lives is foolishness of the highest order.
Southern , I like your views most of the time but sometimes you go off the radar into la la land.
BB, what enemies do you have abroad?
Anyone that thinks they are “anonymous” or that some multi-million/billion dollar corporation gives a flying flip about YOUR risks is kidding themselves.
Not surprisingly, my hub’s personal email is in the hack. I haven’t told him that I know this – yet – but, I did already give him an out by stating, “some guys as zerohedge mentioned the only reason they had an account was because they thought their wives were cheating,” yeah, right.
@bb, Jesus told us, and told us, that others affairs are NOT our business. He told us not to judge. Repeatedly.
You hold on to the Jews Covenant of Moses so tightly even though you claim to accept Jesus, I don’t get it.
Morality will not, cannot, has never, been regulated by the gubment and do-gooder. All that happens is that you end up spreading/enabling more suffering and misery than existed before you picked up your stones.
While I enjoy the spectacle of money-changers being screwed over, the hactivists will have much atonement for the suffering they are so gladly distributing.
Cripes, the f’ing world is on the razor’s edge and the vast majority continue to allow themselves to be distracted.
Lots of divorces will be coming up, shame the asset division is going to happen in the midst of an economic collapse. So much suffering headed for so many.
1. I’M not on Ashley Madison.
2. What is on Ashley Madison is irrelevant to me, because what the chimps on Monkey Island do is irrelevant to me.
3. Once I dimly grasped what the term, “root kit” meant I knew that the “digital age” to which everyone now feels entitled, and of which everyone thinks is permanent, was probably to be short-lived.
We have idiots who record videos with a device that continuously engages in two-way communication with “home” and a whole bunch of “other things.”
We have people who download “apps” onto their phones without looking at the phone subsystems those “apps” will be permitted to examine, screen, copy and RETRANSMIT!
Facebook, Twitter, Linked-IN, and a host of other things basically are databases for the NSA. Don’t get me started on Google, and now Microsoft has entered the database collection game with Windows 10.
Never have people so volunteered en masse to be tagged, tattooed and tracked like farm animals, all in return for a bit of meaningless frivolity.
I don’t subscribe (much) to conspiracy theories (I do subscribe to many conspiracy facts!) but one cannot imagine a more complete system of alienating individuals, breaking down families, promoting vices and self-destruction than exists today.
Who wins when we all are depressed, disaffected, disorganized and beset by shallow relationships with the vapid people who surround us and babble at us from the TV 24 hours a day?
Our ruling elite. They shop our fellow masses for pretty concubines, and they farm us like sheep.
One can hardly blame them when so many of us volunteer for it.
Porn destroys men’s interest in actual physical intimacy, and eliminates emotional intimacy.
Casual sex destroys both men’s and women’s ability to connect sex to emotional intimacy.
“Social media” teach people to have wide-ranging relationships with no depth.
Texting and tweeting teach people to communicate in not much more than grunts, conditioning their minds to small thoughts and incoherent communication.
TV conditions the mind to passive open acceptance of whatever the Telescreen say.
TV also conditions the brains of children to require fancy lighting, primary colors and music which prevents them from developing the ability SIT STILL and CONCENTRATE.
All of these things combine to render an entire population of people who can’t think a coherent thought, who care about no one deeply, who have no incentive to improve themselves and who have zero self-control. It creates useless, permanent and petulant children in adult bodies.
Zombie apocalypse indeed.
Q: How do you know a dude is in the military?
A: Just wait, he’ll tell you.
I’m sure most of these guys thought to use a throwaway email address, but like a moth to a flame they just can’t resist touting their military affiliation. To their own detriment this time.
Everyone knows the leading cause of divorce, right? Marriage!
(I’m here til Thursday … try the veal!)
(Tip your servers …)
TE , Southern is worth the effort. You not so much but I will try .People like you always take that verse out of context. I should not condemn you for God only knows your heart. We are to judge words ,action or behavior. Committing adultery is breaking a basic trust and bond between two people.Once one does that then anything else will be on the table.
Your attitude about adultery is another example of how far society has fallen. Use to be adultery was a career ending sin even in hollywood now it’s celebrated. The moral law is not or ever was the way of salvation but it THE GUIDE FOR ETHICAL MORAL STANDARDS.
DRUD , What enemies do we have over seas. Not any now but in the future we will .Here at home if the progressives had their way they would commit genocide against anyone who disagrees with them.Progressives , Marxist , Fascist haven’t changed. They are all liars , thieves and murderers. Then and now.
My point, BB, is that while I do know a few people overseas, they are all friends or family. I, personally, have ZERO enemies overseas. There are PLENTY of people the USG claims are my enemies and yours and of every Patriotic American, but since the USG is an institution that lies at EVERY opportunity, why should I simply believe them and treat MILLIONS of people I have never and will never meat as enemies???
meet, godammit,
Drud, agree with the distinction, but I think this hack job was definitely malum in se, no different from breaking into your neighbor’s house and rummaging through his closets.
Then, there is the possibility that Ashley Madison was created partly with the intent of being a honey trap for blackmail fodder…
” Jesus told us, and told us, that others affairs are NOT our business. He told us not to judge. Repeatedly.” ——– TE
“People like you always take that verse out of context. …. We are to judge words ,action or behavior” ——bb
bb, once again, you are wrong. How many times will you continue to err in your understanding before you just give up?
Let me briefly explain to you the story of the woman caught in adultery. What did the people want to do? They wanted to kill her by stoning her to death? WHY?? Because they JUDGED her action and behavior!! The very thing YOU advocate doing!
Fortunately, Jesus had a better way. (A way you have yet to learn and understand.)
This is one of those stores where ALL parties involved are absolute dickfuks.
— It’s utterly disgusting that a site like A-M even exists in the first place. The Joofuk owners are raking in millions, but they will all burn in hell for 1.34 billion years.
— The people who subscribe to A-M are cheating whore dickfuks with zero integrity. They are also incredibly dumbass motherfuckers for putting their info online in the first place, and thinking “Hey, I’ll never get caught!”. Lobotomize all of ’em.
— And, the assholes who released people’s PERSONAL INFORMATION are perhaps the worst of the lot. Mind your own fucking business you Gestapo nazifuks!! If they get caught I would favor LIFE in prison, without possibility of parole. Not kidding.
Losers every which way you turn.
stories
Every fucking letter you post on any web site is stored and available for ever.
What dumbfucks
Stucky you are the brightest Meathead .
Now listen , the story of the woman caught in adultery proves my point. They judged her actions and then condemn her to death.We are to judge actions ,words and behavior but are not to condemn
Even Christ said go and Sin no more.He judged her behavior as sinful but didn’t condemn her.
“.He judged her behavior as sinful but didn’t condemn her.” —– bb, the massive moran
You are truly biblically IGNORANT … almost beyond comprehension. Just stop telling people what the Bibloe says … cuz, nreally, you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground.
Here is the pertinent scripture, no explanation needed …. at least for those who are not morans.
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“10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t EVEN ONE of them CONDEMN you?” 11 “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “NEITHER DO I. Go and sin no more.”
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“NEITHER DO I” condemn you, said Jesus. Now go put on your damn Dunce hat and sit in the corner for three years.
Stuckey, the down votes did not explain themselves on 6:08 comment. What could they possibly see wrong with that comment.
“Maybe they aren’t all so good. I guess all of our wars don’t keep our soldiers totally occupied. They seem to have time for cheating on their wives.”
—-Admin, in his prefacing comments
Time to t for the woodshed, again.
Re all those “dot mil” computer addresses that showed up on the Ashley Madison website, did you take into account the fact that there are 800,000 CIVILIAN employees of the Department of Defense and over 770,000 CIVILIAN CONTRACTORS working for the Department of Defense? Of course you didn’t.
Did you know that over one-half (!!!!) of the employees of the Department of Defense are civilians, most of whom have a security clearance and sit at a desk with a “dot mil” computer. Of course you didn’t.
Did you consider that the vast majority of war fighters – the straight leg grunts, Rangers, Airborne, Marines, sailors, flight line mechs, pilots, etc – spend little, if any, time at a desk and computer because they’re too busy training for war or actually fighting wars. Of course you didn’t.
SSS says:
“Maybe they aren’t all so good. I guess all of our wars don’t keep our soldiers totally occupied. They seem to have time for cheating on their wives.”
—-Admin, in his prefacing comments
Time to t for the woodshed, again.
Re all those “dot mil” computer addresses that showed up on the Ashley Madison website, did you take into account the fact that there are 800,000 CIVILIAN employees of the Department of Defense and over 770,000 CIVILIAN CONTRACTORS working for the Department of Defense? Of course you didn’t.
Did you know that over one-half (!!!!) of the employees of the Department of Defense are civilians, most of whom have a security clearance and sit at a desk with a “dot mil” computer. Of course you didn’t.
Did you consider that the vast majority of war fighters – the straight leg grunts, Rangers, Airborne, Marines, sailors, flight line mechs, pilots, etc – spend little, if any, time at a desk and computer because they’re too busy training for war or actually fighting wars. Of course you didn’t.
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An old GF of mine’s father was a war hero from Guadalcanal. Featured in the book Guadalcanal Diaries he won about every medal possible. He was a 1st. Lt. at the battle of Edson’s ridge, defending Henderson Field from the Japs. Despite being a high school dropout and enlisting in the marines lying about his age (15) he rose to the rank of Lt. Col.
Later he was stationed in Germany and took my six year old GF to his mistress’s apartment for cover. He fucked his mistress in the bedroom while she played in the living room, then had to lie to her mother as to where they had been.
“Later he was stationed in Germany and took my six year old GF ….” ——- Zara
You had a GF who was SIX years old? Wow. How did you meet? At a girl scout meeting?
“Stuckey, the down votes did not explain themselves on 6:08 comment.” —— Overthecliff
Fact: some people can’t handle the truth.
Probably Bea Lever and his three minions.
Stucky says:
“Later he was stationed in Germany and took my six year old GF ….” ——- Zara
You had a GF who was SIX years old? Wow. How did you meet? At a girl scout meeting?
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Fuck off, she is older than me. I wasnt even born at the time.
Stucky says:
“Later he was stationed in Germany and took my six year old GF ….” ——- Zara
You had a GF who was SIX years old? Wow. How did you meet? At a girl scout meeting?
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FWIW, my father was drafted in 1942, trained at Camp Adair but came down with asthma just before his unit was to be deployed to France, just after DDay, so he was kept stateside. I know he felt guilty about it the remainder of his life, but he didn’t have to kill anyone and I am here. I am sure you are all so glad!!!
Zara
I was merely making a valid point to Admin that just because thousands of “dot mil” addresses showed up on the Ashley Madison website does NOT lead to the conclusion that these were from members of the uniformed services. In fact, the odds are better than 50/50 that those visitors were civilians, not soldiers.
As for infidelity in the uniformed ranks, of course it exists. The latest exhibit A is General David Petraeus, whose indiscretions occurred in a war zone. Any competent military leadership would have stripped that pompous SOB of his 4-star rank 10 minutes after he copped a guilty plea to sharing classified info with his mistress.
He got away with a slap on the wrist and making a mockery of the UCMJ while literally hundreds before him got hammered. Small wonder people feel that there’s a double standard in the American justice system. And the infection has spread to our armed forces.
Stucky says:
” Jesus told us, and told us, that others affairs are NOT our business. He told us not to judge. Repeatedly.” ——– TE
“People like you always take that verse out of context. …. We are to judge words ,action or behavior” ——bb
bb, once again, you are wrong. How many times will you continue to err in your understanding before you just give up?
Let me briefly explain to you the story of the woman caught in adultery. What did the people want to do? They wanted to kill her by stoning her to death? WHY?? Because they JUDGED her action and behavior!! The very thing YOU advocate doing!
I’m with bb. The fucker keeps getting smarter with each passing day, he’s like a raptor.
Actually, both TE and bb are correct. Jesus advocated mercy while reserving the right to judge. He told the mob that since they were not without sin, they had no right to judge the woman.
Most of Jesus’ teachings address a deeper issue than the superficial circumstances. Notice he says that since the witnesses against the woman were not exactly top drawer folks, he was not going to take their recommendation (to stone her) seriously. This was a legalistic mob eager to use scripture to their nefarious purpose of stoning a person to death. They did not bring the man she committed adultery with because he was one of them, a guy.
This lesson contains a good promise because when you face being accused by the devil, God reserves the right to judge and convict.Therefore, we are to fear God and not the devil. Do you recall that believers were once called ‘God-fearing’?
SSS – Petraeus knew shit. Lots of shit. I am sure they were dead scared of him, and let him off lest he spew out all that shit, covering everyone with a secret they wanted kept.
I assumed bb was referring to Petraeus and I don’t understand why somebody asked if he had enemies abroad.
bb can make some very interesting comments from time to time
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I agree that Petraeus “knew shit, lots of shit.” But that assumes EVERYONE in the Army hierarchy was corrupted in some way or another. I don’t buy that, plus there are other services to contend with. He did not “know shit” about
all those senior leaders.
He should have been busted one, possibly two ranks, which would have drastically reduced his retired pay forever. And I would listen to arguments that he should have spent time in jail.
It’s never too late; Washington was promoted a couple hundred years after he died.
Petraeus kissing up to neocons.
The greatest generation lining up for a brothel in Honolulu
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Zara
No … YOU fuck off. Either that, or learn how to write. Your comment clearly is written such that one is to believe YOU had a GF who was six years old. Ya fuckin pervert.
Come on Stuck, you mental midget, you knew what he meant. I hope you guys have the NY get together in an open air venue. If you aren’t make sure you call ahead so they can have the entrance enlarged so you can get your big head through it.
OF COURSE I knew what he meant Mr. Shit for brains.
Willie — small dick
bee — annoying little insect
Williebee = Annoying Little Dick
I know you knew windbag. How is that door opening coming?
It’s cute that the sheople still think they have privacy.
And when they take cash away from us and force us all to go digital, the sheople will be caught totally off guard when their accounts are disappeared and they are made unpersons. No one will see it coming. Yet they’ll cheer for it and welcome it. LOL!
From someone in the AM data dump ….
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“I’m in the data dump. You are talking about me now. Fact: i am a long term member of AM with a spouse with a medical condition that has severely affected our intimate life. Fact: I engaged only with other members in similar situations (open marriage/medical condition) fact: before engaging in an encounter was tested for ALL stds. Fact: requsted and recieved verrified std results from other party. Fact: was retested after encounter and retested 6 months later (which is the standard). My SO knows about my AM membership. We still would never dream of spending one night without the other. I want to grow old with my SO. But because of this hack and the attitudes of people who are so locked into your very narrow line of thinking and lacking of so little empathy I will most likely end up loosing possibly friendships at work and in my personal life and most likely will have to find another job. All because I have been deemed as the scourge of all the is good and decent in the world according to decent god loving people such as yourself.
Good luck crafting that perfect utopia of yours. Watch out when suddenly it turns on you though because you are confronted with one of life’s unfortunate and often unfair speed bumps that puts in to conflict with the heard.”
Busybodies sitting in judgment of and righteously condemning the private, sexual acts of other adults remains one of the most self-satisfying and entertaining — and thus most popular — public spectacles. It simultaneously uplifts the moral judges (I am superior to that which I condemn), distracts them from their own behaviors (I am focused on those other people’s sins, and thus not my own), and titillates (to condemn this, I simply must immerse myself in the tawdry details of their sexual acts).
The poster that Stuck quoted represents a very small minority of the actual registered users, IMO.
The were 37 million users exposed from the hack. Let’s say a huge percentage of them, over 2/3 of them, were false or bogus identities. For the sake of round numbers, let’s say there are 10 million actual registered users. How many of these 10 million are using AM with the express consent of their spouses, due to medical conditions? Probably a minute, miniscule, iota of an amount. Even if there were as many as 1,000 people using AM due to medical condition, which seems high to me, that means 0.01 percent of the registered users are using AM for “legitimate” uses, which will enhance marriages.
99.99 percent of users are douchebags, looking to hook up with women, outside of their marriages.
I do, however, agree with his last paragraph.
Williebee says: I know you knew windbag. How is that door opening coming?
I knew that Williebee knew that Stucky knew what Z meant. Stucky’s complaint was with the syntax of that declaration: ‘my 5 year old girlfriend’s..’
Hey Zulu-man, that is a USO, not a brothel.
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My point was, everybody knew what Z meant. I just don’t understand why ol Stuck always has to be so nasty.
Whenever Stucky goes WOOF WOOF WOOF all I hear is yap yap yap.