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Ashley Madison Hacked: America's 37 Million 'Cheaters' About To Be Exposed

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Two months ago, AdultFriendFinder was hacked, exposing fuck buddy friend-finding federal employees among its 3.5 million user 'exposure'. Today, as KrebsOnSecurity reports, large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company’s user databases, financial records and other proprietary information (including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies). The hacker group "The Impact Team" manifesto concludes, "too bad for those [37 million] men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion."

 

 

As KrebsOnSecurity reports, the still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37 million users of the hookup service, whose slogan is “Life is short. Have an affair.”

The data released by the hacker or hackers — which go by the name The Impact Team — includes sensitive internal data stolen from Avid Life Media (ALM), the Toronto-based firm that owns AshleyMadison as well as related hookup sites Cougar Life and Established Men.

 

Reached by KrebsOnSecurity late Sunday evening, ALM Chief Executive Noel Biderman confirmed the hack, and said the company was “working diligently and feverishly” to take down ALM’s intellectual property. Indeed, in the short span of 30 minutes between that brief interview and the publication of this story, several of the Impact Team’s Web links were no longer responding.

 

“We’re not denying this happened,” Biderman said. “Like us or not, this is still a criminal act.”

 

In a long manifesto posted alongside the stolen ALM data, The Impact Team said it decided to publish the information in response to alleged lies ALM told its customers about a service that allows members to completely erase their profile information for a $19 fee.

 

According to the hackers, although the “full delete” feature that Ashley Madison advertises promises “removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site,” users’ purchase details — including real name and address — aren’t actually scrubbed.

 

“Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It’s also a complete lie,” the hacking group wrote. “Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed.”

Their demands continue:

Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails. The other websites may stay online.”

 

 

“Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion,” the hackers continued. “Too bad for ALM, you promised secrecy but didn’t deliver. We’ve got the complete set of profiles in our DB dumps, and we’ll release them soon if Ashley Madison stays online. And with over 37 million members, mostly from the US and Canada, a significant percentage of the population is about to have a very bad day, including many rich and powerful people.”

As the Wall Street Journal noted in a May, the company had voiced plans for an initial public offering in London later this year with the hope of raising as much as $200 million.

“Given the breach at AdultFriendFinder, investors will have to think of hack attacks as a risk factor,” the WSJ wrote. “And given its business’s reliance on confidentiality, prospective AshleyMadison investors should hope it has sufficiently, er, girded its loins.”

So much for that IPO because that word, it definitely did not mean what the company's equity sponsors thought it means...

 

Finally, it is time to rotate out of the massively profitable 3x levered Belgian caterer ETF and dump it all in the 3x levered US divorce lawyer ETF which Larry Fink's Blackrock is furiously working on right now.

 

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Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:05 | 6332231 bluskyes
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Haha!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:07 | 6332235 Waylon Bits
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Well this sucks... on teh one hand teh we really likes hackers.  But we is also a bigtime liar and cheater.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:11 | 6332258 Headbanger
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Prolly what's been keeping a lot of marriages together.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:25 | 6332318 nuubee
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LOL... So Ashley Madison is a site for married PEOPLE to cheat on their spouses.. but the "manifesto" from the group that hacked them wants to expose the MEN?? LOL... The women cheated too you ignorant fucks... but of course, when Women cheat it is somehow "excused", even though biology tells us that women cheat more.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:30 | 6332344 Ralph Spoilsport
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Women are always the victims in these situations. In every case, the male spouse/boyfriend will be blamed for driving the female to cheat due to inattention, neglect, lack of intimacy etc. This is all bullshit of course - they do it because they want to. But expect this tactic if it happens to you.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:31 | 6332357 Headbanger
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She's UP and running again!

https://www.ashleymadison.com/

Whew!

There was gonna be a lot of grumpy married guys out there...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:39 | 6332387 Skateboarder
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What a fucking sick and depraved 'society'...

Are there any STD insurance companies, or did I just give some sick motherfucker a 'brilliant' idea?

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:44 | 6332417 nuubee
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Didn't you read obamacare? We passed it so you could read what's in it. STD insurance is covered for women, but not white men.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:47 | 6332430 nope-1004
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"Life is short, have an affair."

 

Just mind boggling how far we've devolved as a society.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:50 | 6332439 nuubee
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It's all about the incentives you create when you alter society. The progressives have essentially been in charge since the 60s, demanding social change. The results are plain. We now have a society which punishes fatherhood, rewards single-motherhood, punishes success and puts failure on comfortable life support. All this while shaming and attacking anyone daring to suggest that meritocratic principles are worth upholding.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:55 | 6332454 nope-1004
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Add homosexuality to that and the salad bowl is complete.  The MSM is pushing the gay agenda harder than ever before, Bruce Jender with his "identity" crisis, and Ashley Madison telling everyone it's ok to get married, but just don't STAY married.

Godly morals are under attack, and it's hardcore attack.

And no I'm not perfect either, just saying that the morality of America is clearly fading quickly.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:02 | 6332494 nuclearsquid
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So where is the data?  inquiring minds want to know.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:23 | 6332614 Motasaurus
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Right?

I mean, what's the point of filing a press release saying you've got the scoop on every cheater out there and then not actually dumping the data anywhere? Essentially, pics or it didn't happen. 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:39 | 6332698 Waylon Bits
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What is "Impact Team" going to do with 37 million username/passwords?  Are they going to dump all of them?  Setup an online database where people can search for cheaters?  Send a letter to all of those households?  Doesn't sound very feasible...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:55 | 6332774 MANvsMACHINE
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There's lot of blackmail money in those 37 million names.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:59 | 6332787 Waylon Bits
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Yeah but we means that its one thing to have that many username and passwords and another thing to do anything productive with them.  And we support this hack, not because they were exposing cheaters but because ALM are obviously more Wall Street-shmoozing hacks attempting their own Fakebook style IPO scam.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:15 | 6332876 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Ashley Madison hacked?!?

Let the extortion demands begin!!!!

(Serves their asses right!)

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:50 | 6332982 Leopold B. Scotch
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Seriously.  Who didn't see this coming?

Regardless, I hope they release the profiles of all politicians and banksters on the list.

 

Otherwise, just think of the blackmail value of that list sold to Easterrn Europe organized crime.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 13:14 | 6333062 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Social depravity at its finest. A society past its prime has no morality and never considers why it's NOT the norm throughout history. That's the fate ("GOD's punishment") of a morally bankrupt society, it never really understands why it fails, it just does, and the vast majority who don't understand DON”T survive the bottleneck.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 14:01 | 6333233 nope-1004
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+1

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 14:17 | 6333299 NoDebt
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I would never have guessed this article would get over 350 replies.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 15:25 | 6333557 Xibalba
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It's 'The Real Geithner'

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 15:43 | 6333646 Alvin Fernald
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I want to see the customer lists for these sites. Please expose.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 16:20 | 6333829 sleepingbeauty
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I found an article in GQ that says that the male/female ratio is 70/30 (http://www.gq.com/story/ashley-madison-affair-cheating-site). It is a couple of years old though.

And you have to believe that some of the 30% are prostitutes. I am not saying that this is all on men, but it didn't make sense to me that this sort of site would appeal to women.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 18:28 | 6334518 Ballin D
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agreed.  I just dont see the appeal of a website for women.  I imagine it would be easier to just cheat with a man who is already pursuing her rather than track someone down.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 19:16 | 6334722 Vullsain
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That still could mean millions of non prostitute women using the sevice.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 13:54 | 6333200 PTR
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I read Krebs from time to time, and appearantly one approach for data thieves is to steal a data list then email a block of names at a time with a message saying essentially, "Send XXX bitcoins to XXX by XX date to have us take your name off the list that is going to be released for sale [in the deeper interwebs]"  

 

Now that's some serious blackmail.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:22 | 6332900 g speed
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bingo--+1

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 13:40 | 6341942 Burticus
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Faced with the overwhelming effort required, the hackers will outsource the blackmailing to independent overseas contractors for a "piece" of the action.  Duh...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:14 | 6332867 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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The pitfalls of modern life.

If you know you will have trouble to commit, don't choose to marry in the first place.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:31 | 6332926 medium giraffe
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Hey, at least the millions of women hitting the alimony jackpot will increase consumer spending.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 13:57 | 6333218 Handful of Dust
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I hope they publish the data of all those hypocrits who bashed people like Spitzer, Jack Chartier, and many others while they, themselves were crusing for some Hot Babe or wicked S&M.

 

I personally could not care less what people do in their personal lives but get pissed when people in glass houses throw boulders at others.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 14:32 | 6333359 SpeedKing
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Cheating bastards are cheating bastards.  Yes, the hypocrites should be outed, but it gives no less credence to the stones that were thrown at Spitzer, etc.  I have about as much sympathy to the cheaters on the Ashley Madison list as I do for the white woman married to a white guy and whose baby comes out half-black. 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:59 | 6332794 froze25
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My guess is that the data is being floated out there as a torrent.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:34 | 6332682 CPL
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Getting loaded into a cannon to deliver to spouses and the closest divorce lawyer.  One of the first things any baby programmer learns is how to merge lists into a form letter and get addresses to automatically mail out a carpet bomb of information regarding any subject to...37 million people x 111 million addresses (the user, the spouse and the closest divorce attorney).

LOL!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 13:10 | 6333052 Slomotrainwreck
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The hackers should relaese all the data just for LOLZ

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:26 | 6332628 Rakshas
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.....I admire those who can maintain a high moral standard and treat people with the respect they deserve though I fully support beating anyone wishing to force thier moral standards on anyone else....... with a shit shovel....... seems appropriate response to the morally superior sub-set....... 

 

 

 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:42 | 6332721 MsCreant
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I don't approve of what they do at this website, would be crestfallen and devestated to find my husband there, but I agree with you. NOT MY BUSINESS WHAT OTHERS DO. If they can make a business out of it, go for it.

I'd like to see them post some kind of marriage counseling resources on the same website as an option, and try to get paid for that, too. 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:50 | 6332758 knukles
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Similarly, I thought once of opening "The Big Store"; down one side all the liquors in the world, the other, 24/7/365 meetings.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:10 | 6332848 Herd Redirectio...
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The name Biderman means 'honest, upright'.  LOL

Whats the odds there is a name change in this fellows family history, say 100 years ago?

I could hardly believe me eyes reading about 'Established Men', though.  Basically the girls are prostitutes!  Our society is just so far gone...

The men and women have been divided and conquered, and set against one another, as opposed to uniting against their common enemy.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 16:48 | 6333995 Ralph Spoilsport
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Too funny knuks.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:19 | 6332891 CPL
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LOL!  Whatever...The only marriage re-mediation resources being delivered are divorce attorney contacts.  Everyone on that site paid the premium membership for the exclusive chance to step in their own trap because they couldn't keep their shit straight.  Now if at any time this feels like this is playing rough or unfair.  It's not.  It is a mirror.

The site reflects the general philosophy of 'everything is permitted'.  That's great.  Let's see how much merit that philosophy has once the fire is lit under everyone's asses in a couple of weeks when ten's of thousands of divorce lawyers are fingering the clients wallets for half of everything they've built, inherited, own and manage. 

I should point out something though.  There's more.  Everyone is concerned just with the information being passed by the right hand, they failed to notice the slight of hand done by the left hand to post the nearly two billion nude photos that these losers send to each other.   Remember...the internet ain't Vegas.  Digital booty and pecker shots for the plunder!

Yarr!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:48 | 6332748 knukles
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You hit the nail on the head, brother.... Godly morals under attack, big time.
This secular society is in a race to extinction.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 18:37 | 6334578 Excursionist
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Aye, aye!  We need more people to conduct their lives according to 2,000 year-old texts.

Where can I buy a slave?  Wouldn't mind taking out a lien on somebody's virgin daughter either...  nothing but awesomeness!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:51 | 6332761 The Delicate Genius
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we also have the knock-out game.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:28 | 6332916 CPL
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Shhhh...we save that for later if they don't smarten up after they get their shit slapped around by PO'ed ex-spouses and Lawyers vamping the shit out of them.  There's still about 8000 other things before it comes to that.  Remember, build the pain sandwich by squeezing their bag slowly.  Don't yank and twist or they'll just pass out before they learn the lesson. 

Can't teach them anything if they aren't aware of what's going on.  That why you showcase the tools first then use them while they stare blankly in shock that they are getting taken apart piece by piece while we all laugh hard at them.  They obviously want the lesson and they will be taught by the next level.

\\BTW...the nudes are being leaked from the site.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 14:56 | 6333441 J Jason Djfmam
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It's free!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:41 | 6332959 Paveway IV
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Am I the only one here that has never heard of this site or it's 'services'?

It's not like its the least bit shoking (all things considered). I guess I'll have to visit Pinterest and Reddit more often - sorry, ZH.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:01 | 6332453 Tall Tom
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Wait until you find out that it was a Law Firm specializing in Divorce arranging for the hack.

 

There is a monetary motive behind it.

 

Those lawyers are whistling, "I'm in the Money" today.

 

You really want to address degeneracy? Let's write about lawyers.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:10 | 6332538 fockewulf190
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"Wait until you find out that it was a Law Firm specializing in Divorce arranging for the hack."

 

Better call Saul!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 15:07 | 6333497 PrimalScream
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that's credible. 

I had never heard of this site before.  Frankly, I am surprised that anyone would be so stupid as to use it, if that's the game they were playing.  Looks more like another outlet for wanna-be hookers. 

BUT your point is well taken.  This is a huge boost for divorce lawyers.

However, for that to work ... the data needs to hit the street.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:12 | 6332526 fockewulf190
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"Just mind boggling how far we've devolved as a society."

 

Your Ashley Madison boggled mind would turn to stone with a proper exploration of the DarkWeb.   There are some very evil people living on this rock.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:44 | 6332735 MsCreant
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I'd love to explore it, but I am so non-tech savvy, I would probably get into a lot of trouble. So I stay ignorant.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:01 | 6332805 pods
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I picture it as being like the Cantina in Star Wars.

pods

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 16:10 | 6333776 SilverRhino
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So what's a good gateway to get into the DarkWeb?

 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:48 | 6332740 YHC-FTSE
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"Life is short, make it shorter and painful"

 

Next STD websites for Avid Death Media:

www.ExclusiveDiseases.com

www.ClassyWeepingPuss.com

www.oralsexandmouthcancer.com

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:26 | 6332912 seek
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Our society hasn't devolved. In fact, given the record low violence and wars (I know, sounds crazy, but it's true) we've done anything but.

What's really going on is simply the exposure of things that were already there. For some people ignorance is bliss, but this is just reality, up close and personal. There was never an era where people were chaste and not fucking like rabbits, in spite of what churches and 50's era sex ed films would like you to believe.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 13:54 | 6333186 Billy the Poet
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There was a time when ethical, responsible behavior was expected and encouraged even if some folks didn't measure up. It's not the existence of faggotry and cheating that's a problem, it's the celebration of perversion and the insistence that school children must be taught the value of such behavior.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 14:14 | 6333290 nope-1004
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Ya exposure to the younger generation is kinda where I was going with it.  When I was a kid I'd come across a nudey mag in the bushes next to the school.  Now my kids go to youtube and are given "suggested" videos they may like, which leads them further into dark corners, because the truth is tempting kids is easy to do.  Then they get popup ads, or paid ads on their phones, and there is no way to filter many of these.

Yes, the material and deviant behavior were always there Seek, I agree.  Just disappointing that now there seems to be no way to shut it out unless one turns reclusive.

 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 14:21 | 6333320 J Jason Djfmam
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Sister site:

Lizzy Borden .com

"Life is short, kill somebody".

 

 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 13:15 | 6337654 Trogdor
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Just mind boggling how far we've devolved as a society.

Just Google "The New Order of the Barbarians" - or read the Protocols ... this devolution isn't an "accident" - Society has been "helped" along this path very much on purpose....

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:45 | 6332420 Keyser
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Hey, not all of us men are married scumbags sleeping around... Some of us a single men and are sleeping with your dirty scumbag wives that are screwing around...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:46 | 6332425 nuubee
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...which is clearly the best option available to men at this point, that and a cash-based career.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:51 | 6332441 Headbanger
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I've always said.

MARRIAGE LICENSES SHOULD HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE !

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:52 | 6332447 nuubee
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They do, High School graduation.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:01 | 6332485 Government need...
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I would prefer a renewable contract.  Ironic how the State happily will feed, clothe, phone, internet, house, and provide healthcare for the losers, but they dont want to automatically take care of ALL the children. 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:40 | 6332712 CPL
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Why do you think Islam has temporary marriage licenses in Sharia law?

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:16 | 6332859 Arnold
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I divorce you, I divorce you,  I divorce you.

There, done.

Now go get stoned (to death).

 

*Caution*

http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/sharia-law.html

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:01 | 6332802 WillyGroper
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@Keyser

"Some of us a single men and are sleeping with your dirty scumbag wives that are screwing around..."

Does that make you a dirty scumbag single man?

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:47 | 6332427 motorollin
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Brings a whole new meaning to trickle down economics.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:17 | 6332572 RagnarRedux
Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:31 | 6332928 CPL
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Too easy to find them.  Photos of tipless cocks with head shots are already getting leaked out. 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 13:37 | 6333145 drendebe10
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WTF - the sheeple elected and reelected a liar and cheater.... it's the new normal////

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 14:24 | 6333336 DaddyO
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A fish rots from the head down...

Daddyo

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:44 | 6332414 Ghordius
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and so 75% of all divorces are initiated by women

after all, we are a species with males hard-wired to protect our females, which is what happens in 99% of the cases, with rape and abuse and murder making up the remaining 1%

and so it's the same hard-wiring that makes the 1% of the cases so horrifying, and makes us easily believe that human males are all potential predators, cheats and monsters in general

"Haus" recently asked me why I don't go after the "political correctness" crowd. well, those are anti-PC facts. there are more, and we can debate for a long time on my 99% vs 1% split, but fact is that marriage is being legislated away, in the US, particularly if you compare with the eurozone, and particularly with the south of europe

why? well, that's the power of singleminded single-issues political focus, the same that fuels lobbying so well. some women, interestingly in particular homosexual ones, found out that what works well for megacorps works well for "women's issues", and apply this power in the manner of the third gen feminism. which is substantially different from first gen "we are people, too" and second gen "we ought to be equal in our rights"

it's a political-cultural nexus, and it steamrolls over all obstacles. don't get in front of it, that's not it's weak side

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:42 | 6332726 Gavrikon
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I personally want to thank my cheating ex-wife for making it possible for me to find the real love of my life and the 16 years of joy I've experienced since.  I truly wish her well, although her string of unhappy relationships since she decided she was bored with our 25-year-marriage lead me to believe that happiness isn't her her future.

As an aside, I still find it unbelievable that she still blames me for every unsuccessful relationship she's had since she left me.  Is that a typical female trait?

An another aside, my young beautiful, blond, tall, built doting wife and mother of our two exceptionally intelligent and beautiful children hails from one of those ex-Soviet countries.  Is that also typical?

 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:13 | 6332865 globozart
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Yes, but what can you do. Our genes talking.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 13:34 | 6333133 gaoptimize
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My Russian (not as young anymore but beautiful, blond, tall, built doting wife) gave me 4, top performers in school, singing talent, and joyous.  

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:17 | 6332881 JLee2027
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Women are always the victims

Fixed it for you.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:24 | 6332902 Fukushima Fricassee
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The first cheater was Eve when she fucked lucifer. It started with and ends with the bitches.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 17:40 | 6334287 MisterMousePotato
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@Ralph: Riddle me this ...

A person is inside their house, in front of a window, exercising. Naked.

A person is outside, on the sidewalk. Watching.

Who gets arrested?

(The man.)

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:29 | 6332348 Bush Baby
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Exactly - unless the cheating 37 million men were homosexuals, there are quite a few cheating wives, or worse yet. single women knowingly having sex with married men.

Wonder how many of those were simply hookers with a very large supply of Johns

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:38 | 6332383 J Jason Djfmam
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Easier to count the 3 that weren't.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:08 | 6332522 Lea
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" or worse yet. single women knowingly having sex with married men."

On the other hand, you can't have that "worse yet" situation wihout married men cheating on their wives.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:43 | 6332730 seek
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"Wonder how many of those were simply hookers with a very large supply of Johns"

And fake profiles, which former AM employees said were common. My bet is that a huge percentage of the profiles are one-time throwaways as well, and the real exposure is probably single-digit millions at most.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:52 | 6332766 Taint Boil
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Just so you know - Ashley Madison is a scam [for men], fake, etc. - Google it.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:58 | 6332789 MANvsMACHINE
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How many paying members?  The number of accounts are those for which $$$ are coming in.

Sun, 07/26/2015 - 23:39 | 6357673 Taint Boil
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Ashley Madison routinely uses computer-generated female "profiles" to make it seem that more women participate than really do

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:31 | 6332360 RafterManFMJ
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I call bullshit; SJW types and feminists can't hack.

Prolly the perps are Gammas that couldn't get laid in a whore house on dollar day.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:35 | 6332371 nuubee
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True, but there are a lot of /b/'ers that were turned into SJWs

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:59 | 6332481 Tall Tom
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Divorce Lawyers can.

 

It ought to be evidential at this point.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:17 | 6332883 JLee2027
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You have to figure with 37 million a few names will pop out.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:53 | 6332769 MsCreant
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There are a subset of feminists that make "hacking" their thing. Really interesting group. Not sure that is what is up here (though the lobsided reference to exposing men when women cheat too, makes it seem like it is).

Love what these folks are doing, or hate it, this is not a good "hack." They are not exposing economic crime, governmental corruption, environmental degradation, or murder. What they have done here is violated privacy. IT IS NOT OUR BUSINESS.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:11 | 6332853 J Jason Djfmam
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You don't know this is feminist anything.

It takes money to use this service.

They are going after people with money.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:16 | 6332879 MANvsMACHINE
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If the list was published and sorted by zip code, would you look through the list?

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:14 | 6332557 neidermeyer
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Absolutely Nuubee , they didn't want the Cougar website brought down did they...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:21 | 6332602 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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Of course what you would expect from Internet White Knight !?

 

WOMEN NEVER CHEAT, HOW DARE YOU  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!    (big S/)

 

YOU NEED TO BE TWO TO CHEAT ! WHY WOMEN ARE SPARED FROM BEING DOXXED !?

 

This hacking group should get lost and hard, hope they will be doxxed.

 

Also why, when you want to marry a girl, you have nothing more than fucking whore in the modern dating market ? Try to finding a virgin and serious girl, it's like finding Gold on Mars !!!

 

If those sucker want to play the sexual morality Holly Crusade, they should start by women first, most are slut these days.

Rant/

 

PS: for information, no you wont find me in that kind of site, Coz I don't care about  that kind of site, I'm not interested :)

+1 to you.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:41 | 6332720 Canoe Driver
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99% of the women on Ashley Madison, and related sites, are PROSTITUTES, so NO, the women did NOT cheat too, you "ignorant fucks." Wake up and smell the coffee.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:55 | 6332776 nuubee
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Right, because female prostitution with married men is wholly excusable behavior that is only good for society. You're just a female apologist.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:58 | 6332783 sleepingbeauty
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Oh come on. 99% is a pipe dream. I bet there are a lot of prostitutes but I bet there were some mal-content married women as well and women who have a defective moral code. Blaming cheating on one sex is complete BS. If they only release names of men or target men it would be sorely disappointing. I hate the thought of sites like this, but I bet every one of my dad's girlfriends knew he was married. He broke his vows but they also have some culpability. Blaming the woes of modern culture on men exclusively is a cop out.

 

I bet it is a bunch of female hackers who had philandering husbands and decided to get even with a bunch of lying jerks. Although the lawyer theory makes sense.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:02 | 6332808 nuubee
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Women have 1000x easier time selling themselves in an online profile for an easy lay.  Just look at any online dating site. Women don't message men, men chase women. So any woman with a slightly dishonest photograph can get millions of views.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:21 | 6332896 JLee2027
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Olympian Turned Escort: Suzy Favor Hamilton Admits She Worked As Vegas Prostitute

Married as well.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 17:55 | 6334357 DaddyO
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She seems to have redeemed herself...

http://suzyfavorhamilton.com/

DaddyO

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:58 | 6332784 sleepingbeauty
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dup

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 15:03 | 6333479 Vullsain
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So are the hackers going to give out pussy passes by not expsoing female cheaters??

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 15:31 | 6333587 natxlaw
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They are shooting for sympathy, dude, nothing more. With a hack of this mag and a dumb justice dept that only cares about harrassing this admin's enemies, the chances of there being the political motivation to chase these guys down is damn near zero if they don't out the women. They out the women, then there will be enough political pressure from womens groups to pursue them more actively. Plus, a lot of the women are just going to be single gals trolling for guys that can afford to take them to Hermes once a month.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 16:21 | 6333839 farflungstar
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Makes you wonder what kind of hairless manginas these fucking loveless geeks really are.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 19:19 | 6334731 Vullsain
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They just want pussy without the headaches.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:23 | 6332320 gafgroocK
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Big Deal, the NSA has had that info for years........

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:31 | 6332359 Ignatius
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So it's back to the old standby -- hangin' out in bars, gettin' drunk and leering.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:13 | 6332266 DeadFred
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Looks like the NSA has some competition in the blackmail department.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:38 | 6332385 Hype Alert
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I'm waiting for someone to spill the beans on Roberts so we can find out why he rewrote Obamacare twice!  I figure it's something good.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:52 | 6332446 Calmyourself
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Waiting for the weeping cheetoh and Mcconell's dough boys fantasies to air out, yuck...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:09 | 6332531 HungryPorkChop
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I can only image how many stolen and made-up aliasis are in that database and going to cause a lot of problems to completely innocent people.   I'm sure the hackers that steal peoples information are not always just trying to open credit cards but used on sites like this to protect their real identity. 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:18 | 6332590 zuuma
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Robertz purchased a couple blond, blue-eyed Irish kids in 2000 for adoption.

Highly illegal in both countries.  Passed 'em off on the paperwork as from central America -- like Nicaragua, or someplace.

Naturally, he forgot to mention this fact during the vetting process for cheif Justice.

Zero's people threatened to take his kids away. Not to mention, supreme court justices prolly shouldn't be obviously breaking multiple immigration laws.

Just a guess..  Axlerod. 

Greatest finder of dirt in history!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:25 | 6332909 JLee2027
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I believe you are correct.

Zero did the same thing with his daughters. Moochelle is a man. Talk about hypocricy.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:07 | 6332509 WhyWait
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Actually, if those files get put online, it would be a setback for the NSA blackmail machine when you think about it.  That's 37 million people living in fear that the NSA will pass their secrets along and out them if they get out of line; 37 people trying to "keep their noses clean" and slip under the radar.  Some of whom now will say WTF, I've got nothing left to lose.

Blackmail only works in conjunction with secrecy and hypocrisy.  Strip those away from everyone, as the internet is slowly doing, and maybe many more of us will be able to get real.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:51 | 6332994 quartshort
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Damn... should'a used bitcoin.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:08 | 6332238 wolfnipplechips
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Hahaha....couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch!!!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:14 | 6332252 cheech_wizard
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Who would have guessed... Hackers, in essence, breaking the law in order to impose a moral code.

Yes, I'm chuckling at this as well.

> "Too bad for the men..."

Because women never cheat on their spouses... 

Standard Disclaimer: Scripting femi-nazis? Is nothing sacred?

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:20 | 6332300 Flagit
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Out of all the shit they COULD have hacked, why this?

 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:22 | 6332311 i_call_you_my_base
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Because it's 30 million pieces of information people don't want to get out. A lot more important to people than credit card information for sure.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:39 | 6332393 toady
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Find a ignored, scarce, resource, and create demand.

It's the American way!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:22 | 6332312 SWRichmond
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Out of all the shit they COULD have hacked, why this?

To keep us fighting among ourselves?

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:25 | 6332327 Oh regional Indian
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Exactly....

They are igniting the war of the sexes in the US....

More rainbow revolution skull-duggery....

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:47 | 6332418 CPL
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Hell no, Just happens that the vast majority of all those accounts are mostly all the people in charge of society because the site is considered a 'premium' subscription.  People without any problems, won't have any problems. 

- The several thousand Citi Group Black Master Card. 

- The couple of hundred Black Brazilians. 

- The couple of thousand Merrill Amex. 

- The Coutts world MC's

Etc...all those "premium and very exclusive" credit services nearly amount to half million men.  Complete with names and addresses. 

You know what comes next?  Public poison pen letters written by machine, sent at the speed of fibre optics while CCing a metric fuck tonne of divorce lawyers drooling all over themselves for the opportunity to tear apart dynasties worth trillions of dollars.  That should keep the 'elites' busy for a couple of decades.

There's an old Celtic phrase that hung in needle point on my Grandmother's wall: When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:16 | 6332571 FredFlintstone
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Your Grandma sounds like the sweetest little lady.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 14:21 | 6333309 CPL
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She was amazing, gentle and strong.  Everytime I smell lilacs and berries I miss listening to her muddle up english and gaelic while puttering around.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:22 | 6332445 Meat Hammer
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Why did they hack this? To claim that the institution of marriage is archaic and a lie. My wife and I were having this discussion yesterday…Used to be back in the day that families took care of each other and provided for their parents in their old age. There was no need for Social Security or retirement funds. When your parents were too old to take care of themselves they moved in with you. No need for the state. The family unit is the last bastion of freedom and the state knows it. The less family units, the better.

EDIT: The conversation was spurred by my wife's mention of this podcast from the feminist rag, Real Simple, whose podcast topic du-jour was re-defining the institution of marriage.  

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/real-simple-podcasts/id969518029?mt=2

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:29 | 6332647 CPL
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No.  There are people married out there that are a happy, content with their friendships with their spouses and live meaningful lives for decades with their best friend (spouse).  This site however is a honeypot of morons with far too much money and too little common sense stuck in shitty relationships with women that love them for their wallets more than their hearts or minds.  This is being done to see if they like the pain trade served back btw.  Time to see if they can take it as well as they give out the financial misery.  To throw their own philosophy back in their faces "Everything is permitted".  Let's see if that philosophy has merit when it's actually applied instead of the usual lip service noted by dipshits.

I do know one thing is for sure though.  There are going to be a lot of very wealthy divorce lawyers after this is done...and a lot of very wealthy women.  Consider it leveling the playing field of wealth and gender equality with a legal nuclear strike.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:34 | 6332678 Meat Hammer
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While I don't disagree with you, what I'm talking about is the way it will be spun by the feminazi/statist/death-to-traditional-marriage crowd.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:21 | 6332895 Herd Redirectio...
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What I want to know is... How will the courts treat a WIFE who cheated?   Does she 'pass Go and collect $200'?

Because we know the man will get himself a new asshole, if happens to be him that cheated!

Any one see Ex Machina?  And anyone notice their significant other's reaction was diametrically opposed to their own reaction to the movie?  Divide and conquer, in full flow.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:40 | 6332943 JLee2027
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Who had the affair is more important than the gender of the person who had the affair.

Courts only care about the breadwinner in divorce and custody. That's the bad man/woman they do everything to take down and belittle so the Judges stay employed and the lawyers rack in fees.  Britany Spears, they labeled her a moron on front page news. She was the breadwinner. Kevin Federline was made out as the hero because he was unemployed.

So follow the money.  

 

 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 13:58 | 6333216 CPL
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Who cares, most of them are nuts to begin with.  If anything most of them need three fingers of scotch and a good egg dusting. 

What marriage has evolved into today versus 'property.  It is about best friends telling the world "we're going for a journey together for the rest of our lives, for better or worse.  This will be the person I would like to laugh with and be miserable with".  Hardly takes a formal legal marriage to make that happen and I think that's where people get confused on the subject.  Again, there are relationships out there that span decades and the effort, emotion and time people make to commit themselves to each other should never be overlooked.  They have merit.  They are the bold examples of making it work. These would be the men and women that stay out of the troubles and bullshit by their committment and being honest with themselves and each other.  They share their lives and love with each other because again today, the spirit of marriage is about friends taking care of each other.  It's not just about sex or children or finances, while important, they are not the foudation of how a friendship starts.  Most everyone here understands that.

In this situation we are not talking about singles meeting on some place like POF, OkCupid, Mingle.com, etc.  This is Ashley Madison.  The site's marketing is aimed at wealth, exclusive sex with another person's forbidden fruit and the subscription of the site is priced out of the range of normal people's bankroll.  To put frosting on the shit cake, they are even publically traded on the pink sheets.  People can sit and trade shares on spouses cheating on each other.  Just spells out one thing:

No mercy.

The lawyers will certainly have none and hell hath no fury like 37 million women scorned.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:41 | 6332669 HamFistedIdiot
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It's definitely a psy-op, perhaps a side activity of Jade Helm, destroying core values in order to "master the human domain." As if NSA/Rothschilds/Satan have the moral high ground. This data was STOLEN. That's the greater crime. People have been "cheating" for eons. You could say men are hardwired to cheat. It shouldn't diminish the value of marriage. This data breach is intended as an assault on the institution of marriage, not as a deterrent to cheating.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:09 | 6332847 SWRichmond
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The family unit is the last bastion of freedom and the state knows it.

 + infinity

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:59 | 6332482 TeethVillage88s
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With all the neighborhood watching for the DHS going on... and teaching kids to report their parents...

It seems like we are dividing to people with some kind of criminal record or those with embarrassing past... with those with clean records on the other side.

I tried to pull the total of those that had been in Prison in the USA, then the probation or court monitoring to figure this out one time. I think we must have 25 Million Criminal and something in the Illegal Population.

So you have like 6 Classes

- Wealthy Class
- Government & Diplomat Class & Private Executive Class
- Middle Class with debt under control
- Debt Class who are either in the poor or middle
- Prison/Criminal Class
- Non Citizens Class that can not Vote, Get DL, Apply for some benefits, can't complain too much, probably work in only certain non-professional sectors

In Europe Christine Lagarde is a diplomat that doesn't pay Taxes, seems likely she is from an Elite Family.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:16 | 6332569 WhyWait
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Criminal records are a big part of how we get divided into "employables" and "unemployables".

I know of one state where already by 2008 more than half the adult population had a criminal arrest record, putting many jobs out of reach. Police now routinely throw the book at people whe making an arrest and then settle for some version or another of "no contest" pleas which are equivalent to a conviction on a person's record, and young folk who don't know better or poor folk who can't afford good legal advice feel grateful to take those deals.

 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:48 | 6332749 TeethVillage88s
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One week this year I overheard people talking about their jail, someone's arrest or jail time, like twice... then heard 3 people talking about hard drugs & rehab in this small city.

These were not kids, but they were very comfortable in public talking about this stuff. One looked like a normal young woman.

I'm just out of touch.

Today your family seems to be something where you don't think how they have to come up with time, money, and sympathy for your actions.(Life is so unfair he got busted)

Oh I don't know. I'm not an Angel I guess.

Maybe the demographics of who is caught and convicted is changing for social engineering reasons.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:00 | 6332798 MsCreant
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Thank you. I have been so sad reading the comments here, this is setting men against women the way this is framed, when we all know it takes 2 to tango. This is a bad hack, it is NOT OUR BUSINESS. Tall Tom has suggested it might be lawyers. That too might make some sense.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:46 | 6332974 Ms No
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Another possibility may be those US and Canadian organizations who profit from the sex industry in general.  Sites like this may be hitting their bottom line pretty hard. 

On the bright side of things, if ones sexual appetites are put out for the world to see there is one less thing the government can blackmail you for. 

All divisions will be utilized.

 

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 17:08 | 6334113 Alvin Fernald
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Yes it could be a Protocol of Zion thing, making cheating men and women look like the evil ones.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:33 | 6332367 Bush Baby
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Must be a Hillary plot to bring out the female vote - LOL - scary part is I wouldn't put it past her

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:04 | 6332506 Tall Tom
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Out of all the shit they COULD have hacked, why this?

 

 

CASH. Divorce Court is expensive.

 

Means, motive, and opportunity, baby...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:39 | 6332705 TeethVillage88s
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Maybe theys the dregs and remnants of Occupy Wall Street... still living in someone spare bedroom or living on a couch... Hatching their schemes in NYC... Networking with the Mohawk Punks and Emo Wenches to build a supreme and secret online-power to oppose the rot and corruption of the City.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:29 | 6332650 Ass Burger
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In a long manifesto posted alongside the stolen ALM data, The Impact Team said it decided to publish the information in response to alleged lies ALM told its customers about a service that allows members to completely erase their profile information for a $19 fee.

According to the hackers, although the “full delete” feature that Ashley Madison advertises promises “removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site,” users’ purchase details — including real name and address — aren’t actually scrubbed.

“Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It’s also a complete lie,” the hacking group wrote. “Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed.”

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashleymadison-ha...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 15:26 | 6333566 Blythes Master
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I have an idea why.

Because of the feral governments' 'War on the Family.'

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 10:23 | 6332308 CPL
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Robin Hood and his Merry folk hung around Sherwood forest; it was full of trees, branches and trunks to hide in and gank idiots.  This time, the internet is full of knowledge trees, programmed branches and data trunks to hide in and gank idiots.  The more things change...

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:08 | 6332837 MsCreant
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I like your posts I have been reading about the "why" of this. I hope you are right.

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