Ashley Madison offers £300,000 reward amid reports of member suicides

[Valmy]

Exactly.

The sacred Canticles of Grumbler denouncing the heretic Raz are inviolable.

[Razgovory]

I don't give a fuck that they were outed, I give a fuck that their personal and private information was outed, and that people are so apparently gleeful and smug about it.

Personally, I don't give two shits about them per se - I do care about respect for basic human rights, and hence derive zero pleasure from wholesale violations of them.

Berkut, what crime do you think was committed by outing someone (not getting the information to begin with)?  Could you tell me exactly what right protects you from the communications of a third party?

[alfred russel]

I met up with DGuller, who thought he was meeting with Dorsey, and told him--in confidence!- that I had an alternate account that was Alfred Russel. Like 7 or 8 years later he told the mods by PM.

My basic human rights were violated.

Was this all through Ashley Madison?

grindr (not sure if I am violating DGuller's human rights by mentioning that, as he made me promise not to tell anyone)

[Valmy]

It is beautiful when accountants fall in love.

[Rasputin]

I am torn...illegal hackers are usually scum, but so are adulterers.

I am not even a little bit torn.

If you have a principled respect for individuals right to privacy as a foudnational right, it should not (indeed it CANNOT) only apply to people you like or agree with.

This is yet another litmus test for whether or not people actually believe the bullshit they spout as a matter of course.

If the answer to the question of "Do you think people have the right to not have their private information published by hackers" is "Of course! Unless they are jerks/adulterers/Jews/Muslims/women/languish poster/Berkut" then you do not actually buy into the idea that there is such a thing as a right to privacy in the first place.

what he said

[alfred russel]

It is beautiful when accountants fall in love.

I wouldn't describe what happened that day as love. 

[derspiess]

Love hurts.

[Eddie Teach]

It is beautiful when accountants fall in love.

Even when it is self-love?

[Admiral Yi]

I don't understand women who attack the single girls their partners slept with rather than just kick said partner to the kerb.

There's a school of thought that says you fight for your man/woman.  It has never had much appeal to me.

[Valmy]

It is beautiful when accountants fall in love.

Even when it is self-love?

Depends on how hot the accountant is.

[The Brain]

There's no accounting for taste.

[Malthus]

The selling point is that you are hooking up with someone who is also a cheater and so don't have to worry about them being angry that you have a wife/husband, and who won't make a scene or call up your wife/husband out of jealosy, and won't expect all the stuff that goes with an ordinary-type relationship. The promise is of easy, no-strings, no-consequences cheating sex.

And I am saying there is plenty of competition for that market out there. If you never get a hook you will bail.

But anyway I am not sure what you are pounding on me for still. The M/F ration is 70:30 so there we are.

Apparently, according to the articles above, many of that 30% were either (1) invented by the site, or (2) hookers. So the chances of a 'legitimate' cheating hook-up were pretty slim if you were a guy, due to a relative scarcity of legitimate female cheaters using the site.

Doesn't that prove my point, rather? 

[The Brain]

So what if they're invented by the site? A mouth is a mouth.

[Valmy]

Doesn't that prove my point, rather? 

Well I conceded from the beginning that you may be right. I was just skeptical.

[Malthus]

So what if they're invented by the site? A mouth is a mouth.

I have no mouth, and I must give blowjobs?

A modern take on the classic Harlan Ellison story?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream