Thursday, August 27, 2015

Nothing Private on Net: Not Even Ashley Madison

Nothing you write on the Internet is safe or completely private.  It's not. That's now a fact.

No "security" system will save you.

Once you do something, write something, view something or subscribe to something on the Internet, there's a potential that everyone will know.

That is the lesson everyone should take from the Ashley Madison hack.

Including the CEO of Ashley Madison.

The headlines in the mainstream media are shouting the news today:  Leaked emails show Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman had multiple affairs: report

The news came with the latest data dump from the Ashley Madison hack.

I read about it first on Reddit.  And the news is still coming.

News also came out earlier that the ratio of men to women on the site was dramatically different. And that story came from an employee who made fake profiles of women on Ashley Madison.

So, men who were paying for the site were most likely having emotional affairs... with employees who were posing as women on the site?   Ah, it gets confusing, right?

What.  A.  Mess.

I expect more lawsuits from all of this exposure.  And more divorces.

Divorce attorneys must be thrilled with this hack.  Cheating husbands are not as thrilled.

Ultimately, maybe this will turn the tide on the acceptability of having an affair.

But that's probably wishful thinking...

Honestly, I don't think this Ashley Madison thing is over by a long shot.  Not yet anyway.  Not yet.

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