[A.M.] is last seen wearing Jackie-O sunglass, cackling gleefully as she boards a yacht bound for no-extradition-treaty island . . . and as the camera pulls back we see that with her on the yacht is (gasp!) her best friend’s husband!

I am a bad person but my first thought on reading this was, ‘dammit I missed the fake profile writing gravy train.’ :/

If *I* was writing a screenplay about Ashley Madison, the dénouement would reveal that Ashley Madison was created by a woman – a woman whose husband had cheated on her!

“I could fall face-first into a bag of dicks and come up sucking my thumb”, as the saying goes. I’m that kind of woman.

Maybe he just doesn’t have a ton of close women friends. It’s a popular lie in American culture and probably elsewhere. I used to believe it too. I think a lot of women do, and end up either feeling…

When I read your analysis yesterday, deliberate fraud is what it sounded like to me and today’s post underlines that fact. I don’t know that it matters that much whether it was created to be a fraud or if it evolved into one. Now one of the victims just needs to file a class action lawsuit and use the stolen data to…

You’re killin’ it on these, Annalee.

The question is, was this a deliberate fraud? Or was it just a dating site gone wrong?

Sausage fest

When it comes down to it, people are the same all over. Horny people are horny. note that the distribution of the users has more to do with access to free internet then cultures in general.

it just confirms what I believe these releases are actually trying to ‘out’ about the entire industry. It’s mainly a confidence game designed to scam people out of money.

Imagine ruining your marriage to go hang out at a sausage party.

Yup. And since we all inevitably do something that someone somewhere doesn’t agree with, that logic boils down to: no one should have any privacy ever.

honestly though, I think people should lose their right to privacy if they actually believe they can do things in private on the internet

The situation for every member of the website is that he/she is either looking to cheat, or looking to scam someone who’s looking to cheat. They didn’t go looking for Dolly Madison on Google and accidentally end up with a profile on Ashley Madison.

The hackers are acting immorally. Everyone else involved is just really, really stupid.

“The phrasing of the statements from the hackers seems more and more like a jilted lover which makes this a crime of passion not a crime of moral outrage.”