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Is Your Name In The Ashley Madison Hack? Here Are Some Easy Ways To Find Out

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One month ago, tens of millions of men (and a few million women) were shocked to learn that as clients of cheating website Ashley Madison, whose motto is "Life is short. Have an affair", all their supposedly confidential information including names, email addresses, credit card data, personal profiles and virtually everything else, had been hacked by a group calling itself the Impact Team, which threatened release of all the client information unless Ashley Madison shuts down. There was some hope that the hackers were merely posturing or bluffing, but to the utter horror of Ashley Madison's 37 million customers - and to the sheer delight of millions of divorce attorney around the globe - last night the Impact Team did just as it threatened it would, and released a data dump with all the data in the form of a 9.7GB torrent.

The hackers' demands was simple: take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, "or it would 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."

However, Avid Life Media, with visions of a lucrative Ashley Madison IPO still dancing in its head, decided to ignore the threats.

In retrospect this may have been a wrong move when last night, the Ashley Madison data trove made its way from the dark web where it had been circulating for the past month, to Bit Torrent, making the data available for the entire world.

The statement from Impact Team to Avid Life Media and Ashley Madison users was as follows:

Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men. We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data.

 

Find someone you know in here? Keep in mind the 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.

Ashley Madison's owners promptly responded with a statement of their own late Tuesday, condemning the cyberattack and saying they are “actively monitoring and investigating this situation” while cooperating with law-enforcement authorities in the U.S. and Canada, where the company is headquartered. "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 statement reads. “We will not sit idly by and allow these thieves to force their personal ideology on citizens around the world."

There were other amusing tangents:

We have attempted to verify that the people that appear in the records are actually Ashley Madison customers, reaching out to a dozen of them by phone, email and Facebook. Unsurprisingly, the people we’ve reached have not been eager to chat. After reviewing a file with Ashley Madison accounts that included names, sexual preferences, addresses and phone numbers, we called every number. Only one number worked, and it was for a woman who turned out to be the wife of Ashley Madison’s original founder, Darren Morgenson, who sold the company to Avid Life Media years ago. Morgenson said the spreadsheet dated back to the company’s early days and was essentially a list of dummy accounts that employees had used for “quality control and market research” on the site.

In any event, by this point the damage was done.

There was some hope among the dejected users that the data released was fake however as Bloomberg reports, "the data dump appears to be “legit” and includes full names, e-mail addresses, partial credit card data and dating preferences, according to Robert Graham, chief executive officer of Errata Security, a researcher in Atlanta."

Internet security website Krebs on Security confirms as much:

I’ve now spoken with three vouched sources who all have reported finding their information and last four digits of their credit card numbers in the leaked database. Also, it occurs to me that it’s been almost exactly 30 days since the original hack. Finally, all of the accounts created at Bugmenot.com for Ashleymadison.com prior to the original breach appear to be in the leaked data set as well. I’m sure there are millions of AshleyMadison users who wish it weren’t so, but there is every indication this dump is the real deal.

So with confirmation of the data's legitimacy out of the way, the next and only question is who is on the list, and how credible is it. 

Recall that, as Wired notes, the data released by the hackers includes names, addresses and phone numbers submitted by users of the site, though it’s unclear if members provided legitimate details. A sampling of the data indicates that users likely provided random numbers and addresses, but files containing credit card transactions will yield real names and addresses, unless members of the site used anonymous pre-paid cards.

Wired further adds that according to one analysis of email addresses found in the data dump also shows that some 15,000 are .mil. or .gov addresses.

Further user-level details posted on the 8ch.net website, reveal numerous users who used their employer-given email address to register at the cheating website, likely in refutation of corporate guidelines, which likely means that many former Ashley Madison users now have professional problems to look forward to in addition to the potential personal humiliation of being exposed. Among the alleged users uncovered include many JPMorgan, Bank of America, blue chip and government employees including some such as this one:

Then again, it’s important to note that Ashley Madison’s sign-up process does not require verification of an email address to set up an account, so legitimate addresses might have been hijacked and used by some members of the site.

Which brings us to the final question: just who is on the list. Early attempts to parse the full data, and present it in an easily searchable database have so far been unsuccessful, which is why those AM users concerned about the embarrassment of seeing their data appear on the internet, are urged to go straight to the source and find out whether they have been compromised there. This can be accomplished by going to the ImpactTeam's torrent website where one can find the data in one of two places: here and here.

 

And, for the naive ones, one way is simply to put their email into the following database. It is unclear what the result will be except for indirectly admitting guilt and putting one's email in yet another database which can be used and abused by unknown people for their own ulterior motives. We would not recommend it.

 

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Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:59 | 6443175 Catullus
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Checking every person in my sales heirarchy now...

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:03 | 6443184 Bank_sters
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HAHA.   You're a thinker. 

 

In other news, Bruce Jenner FREAKS ME THE FUCK OUT.   Ewww.  ICk.  He scares the shit outta my inner child.   

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:04 | 6443189 HonkyShogun
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This is the funniest shit ever.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:07 | 6443204 Money Counterfeiter
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Will there be a demographic break down of the client list?   Inquiring minds want to know.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:12 | 6443222 SWRichmond
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Information like this is actually much more valuable to the revolution than other forms of civil disobedience.  By discrediting the power elite, more people are woken up from their slumber. 

By the way, THIS THREAD IS USELESS WITHOUT PICTURES.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:15 | 6443236 Tom Servo
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labour.gov.uk is a non existent domain, but I applaud the effort :)

 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:24 | 6443244 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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At this juncture, most of us on the Left wouldn't be particularly surprised if Tony Blair were to show up on the membership list of a Satanic cult.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:31 | 6443295 Divine Wind
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I just did a search for   Tyler Durden.

You, sir, should be ashamed of yourself.

Hairy women and Fry Max?

 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:44 | 6443340 SafelyGraze
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jftr, I do not know who that person "saifly-grayz" is.

am serious.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:51 | 6443358 gmrpeabody
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What does "doggie-style" mean?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:56 | 6443378 bobola
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Why is this story here?

How is it related to $$?

I miss the old ad-popup-free ZH.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:06 | 6443432 pods
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Even if pizza is your most favorite food on the planet, you do have to eat something else sometimes.

And this does deal with money. AM was going to go public and make their tribe investors a boatload of $$.

As for popups, they do blow. The autoplay is the worst.  I put up with ads (and clicked them daily) until pop ups.

Just download adblock.

pods

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:08 | 6443442 SafelyGraze
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pods -

bobola is a newcomer to the site. go easy on him/her.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:51 | 6443607 Bearhug Bernanke
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try https://ashley.cynic.al/ to search for email addresses.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:12 | 6443709 Santini Air
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Big word lists are trouble to make it through, so building a new rig with some old Nvidia cards for that purpose.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:23 | 6443742 Manthong
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The comments on this thread are a hoot.

You won’t find me on that list.

Mrs. Thong and I are a team and I would never cheat my team member.

Besides, what kind of loser needs the Internet if you wanted to do something like that.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:27 | 6443754 Santini Air
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You can find all types of weird people online who are into weird things.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:32 | 6443779 Manthong
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Speaking of loser.. whoever would down vote a comment like my previous one is a loser of the first order.

Get a life that is worth living,

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:46 | 6443848 Santini Air
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Notice that the Tyler's have posted a screen shot of thepiratebay.cr a site which the establishment has been trying to take down for around a decade now.  Was raided by Swedish "authorities" and now still exists in several different places in onionland (TOR) and the surfaceweb.  Teh internet might be more powerful and have more staying power than some of you think....

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:58 | 6443885 DaveyJones
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is is better or worse that the record shows my card was declined?

what if it's my wife's card?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 19:07 | 6445396 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Screw all that, how do I get my name ON the list?!?

(I live a boring life.) ;)

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:10 | 6444213 Dsyno
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The downvotes are because you sound like an ass-kisser who sounds guilty as shit.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:05 | 6444203 Dsyno
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You sound guilty as shit.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 18:21 | 6445310 Son of Loki
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"Life is too short .......................not to read ZH."

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:38 | 6443550 ebworthen
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All the guys named "John Smith" are feeling lucky now.

Adblock does the job for sure.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:02 | 6443904 Bokkenrijder
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That's why: HOOKERS!

As the saying goes: "if it flies, floats or fucks: rent it!"

You don't just pay for the sex, you also pay for her to leave again.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:39 | 6444315 KnuckleDragger-X
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Thank god the government workers aren't involved... http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/251431-ashley-madison-leak-appea...

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 18:26 | 6445315 Son of Loki
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I swear to God, that Loki on the list is NOT me! I'm still holding out for Emily...or at last one of those Hot Babes who will coming over here from Japan when they realize the radiation problems and all the Asian men are impotent/sterile.

 

{Hot Babe....no pun intended]

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:06 | 6443434 SafelyGraze
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"How is it related to $$"

this is a good question.

for other newbies just starting to digest the zh cud, the relation between $$ and ashley madison is two-fold.

first, guests pay $$ to miss madison for the pleasure of the company of her entertainers.

and second, the elite $$-makers are tremendously fond of hookers.

hope this helps. 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:48 | 6443594 DIgnified
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Why you no adblocker? 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:41 | 6444093 Nostradumbass
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This computer hasn't seen a pop up in over a year.

Adblock took care of that.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:40 | 6443560 sushi
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What does "doggie-style" mean?

 

On the kitchen floor with kibbles and gravy

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 16:46 | 6445081 mkkby
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The blackmail possibilities are endless.  Your boss/co-workers and their spouses, your asshole neighbor, your sexy neighbor, the cop who harassed you, the business that cheated you, the dirty politician.  If they are NOT on the list, you might even con them into thinking they or their spouse/parents/kids are.

I guarantee you that is what the NSA is really doing out there.  Now we all have a chance to fight back.

Sic em.  That's what doggie style means.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:30 | 6444044 Brooks_Orpington
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It means you do it on the paper.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:51 | 6443360 pods
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Okay fellas, anyone dumb enough to use their real names on this please listen to the following and practice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p50WnKq-x1c

Wasn't me.

pods

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:30 | 6444046 greenskeeper carl
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i hope all of yall are smart enough not to download that file. corect me if im wrong, but are you not knowingly downloading 30 million stolen identities when you do that?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:46 | 6443344 SWRichmond
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If these people leak this slowly, they will have as much blackmail power as the US Intelligence services have, Senators, Congresspeople, Media, etc.

Which makes them a target for the US Intelligence services.

Or is it really already the US Intelligence services?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:38 | 6443551 Son of Captain Nemo
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Or is it really already the US Intelligence services?

You forgot that other Rothschild wholly owned subsidiary call girl service known as Epstein LLC that works for the Mossad!

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:12 | 6443966 Herd Redirectio...
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This operation was financed by a law firm, there is little doubt of that.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:16 | 6444236 PhysicalRealm
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They've had enough time to go through the list and cull the big names for later use

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:11 | 6443458 TeamDepends
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Here we have a dictionary ready definition of "useful idiot". Communism, progressivism, whatever you want to call it, IS A SATANIC CULT.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:57 | 6443574 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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Blair very much proved a "useful idiot" to the Neocons and the warmongers of your country. That's not mentioning his conversion to Christianity, or his public attacks on Jeremy Corbyn.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:52 | 6443611 Enceladus
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@zerohedge awkword?

Why is it awkword? Did it say his 'preference' was women? I had assumed his preference was small children and the odd goat.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:51 | 6444143 Calmyourself
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Satanic cult you say.. Hmm, guess he will be emigrating to Sweden with the rest of em'  Bring out the blonde women..

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:38 | 6444301 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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There's nothing special about women (or men for that matter) because they are blond. 

Being a blond person, I am in a position to point this out. Especially to the White Supremacy nutcases.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:05 | 6443922 Gohn Galt
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"labour.gov.uk is a non existent domain, but I applaud the effort :)"

correction.  labour.gov.uk is an active and working domain


Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:30 | 6444039 Ballin D
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tblair@labour.gov.uk was found. However, the email address was not verified by the account owner, so this may not be a genuine account.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:17 | 6443238 Creepy A. Cracker
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DAMN!!!  Creepy A. Cracker showed up on the list.  What's Mrs Cracker going to be yelling about this and will she have a butcher knife in her hand?...

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:15 | 6443477 CrazyCooter
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It could be worse - your spouse could be Asian. If mine was going to kill me, they would find my body stabbed to death with an oyster knife.

So ... she keeps me (mostly) in line and I am a better guy for it. :-)

Regards,

Cooter

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:05 | 6443924 New_Meat
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or Sicilian and facile with a straight razor.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:17 | 6443242 sleigher
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So people actually used their real email addresses and didn't just make a throw away at gmail or something?

Not that I agree with AM or what they are doing.  I find it morally reprehensible.  But if people are so dumb to not just just make a throw away address then they deserve to be caught. 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:21 | 6443261 astoriajoe
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It's more a question of did they use their real name with their real credit card.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:52 | 6443367 divingengineer
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Of course they did.

You COULD pay cash for a TracPhone and Visa gift card to pay for your malfeasance. You COULD log in with a TOR browser or VPN to remain anonymous.

But when you got a blue-vein chubby for the neighbor's wife's profile, or the hot chick that IMs you out of nowhere, you just don't think of those things.  

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:09 | 6443942 New_Meat
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when all the blood drains from the big head to the little head, strange things happen.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:53 | 6443504 SameAsItEverWas
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So people actually used their real email addresses and didn't just make a throw away at gmail or something  ... But if people are so dumb to not just just make a throw away address then they deserve to be caught. 

ummm.  so when's the last time you got a "throwaway" gmail addy?  maybe, just maybe, you can do that if you're not masking your IP address--but (real or phony IP both) Google always tells me they need a "cell" telephone number for their SMS confirmation code to open a new gmail account.

so for me to get a new "throwaway" gmail addy i'd need a new throwaway cellphone number.   and try getting one of those for free ... or something

P.S. Of course it's easy to get a throwaway email,  just not a gmail. And Ashley Madison wanted payment by V/MC.  Sure it could be anonymous, but it'd be a hassle to do so.

Thu, 08/20/2015 - 17:40 | 6449054 TheEndIsNear
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"Google always tells me they need a "cell" telephone number for their SMS confirmation code to open a new gmail account."

Wow, Google is getting more and more evil all the time. Years ago when I created my Gmail account all I needed to do was select an available Gmail address and password. No verification of anything, but that was shortly after Gmail was created.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:13 | 6443505 SameAsItEverWas
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oopsie

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:28 | 6443762 snr-moment
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Also, how difficult would it be to cross check their hacked information with a compiled database of people who show up to search for themselves?  And who is dumb enough to use a credit card?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 12:19 | 6443993 Ballin D
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You dont know if a search is for yourself or a nosy spouse or coworker or soemthing.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:13 | 6443438 Rusty Shorts
Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:07 | 6443202 knukles
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So when he goes up for the manslaughter charge, he'll (yes, he's still a him) dye his hair blonde and start the dumb blonde crying defense and nobody in the world (except a jury of ZHers) would dare find him guilty, because he identifies with something or other, along with that white black crazy chick form the Oregon NAACP. 
I identity with being a billionaire, so where's my fucking money?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:17 | 6443492 CrazyCooter
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Yellin isn't done yet. Give her a few more years. Then you can be a millionaire.

Oh, and because you don't have a complicated, international network of holding companies and a team of tax lawyers, the progressive tax rates are really going to suck.

Regards,

Cooter

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:35 | 6443543 cherry picker
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You were born with an empty wallet and it is still empty.  You may look like a poor representation of a billionaire with your Ferrari kit car with Volkswagen engine but you are still a poor working slob as your wallet is still empty.  I hope I didn't piss off the PC Crowd who recognize you as a billionaire while I refuse to do so, but what the hell, we are not all created equal.  :)

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:16 | 6443723 knukles
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Yeah, and that very same PC crowd told me to f-off with the money thing because it's needed for the FSA

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:44 | 6444321 Bullionaire
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"In other news, Bruce Jenner FREAKS ME THE FUCK OUT. Ewww. ICk. He scares the shit outta my inner child."

Here's the joke I've been telling:

Caitlyn dies and appears in front of St. Peter. It says, "Hi, I'm Caitlyn and Arthur Ashe says I'm a hero!" St. Peter checks his spreadsheet and replies, "Caitlyn? I don't know you." Caitlyn says, "But I embody diversity and tolerance, and so I'm a hero to millions of marginalized folks. I'm CAITLYN!" St. Peter checks again and says, "Nope...no Caitlyn on the list." Finally it says, "Fine...I'm really Bruce Gender, US Olympic legend, American hero and idol of athletes everywhere." St. Peter says, " Ahhhhh...Bruce Gender, who decided that what God gave him wasn't good enough for him. Well, God has decided that YOU aren't good enough for HIM. Bye bye."

- flushing sound -

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:46 | 6443342 Slomotrainwreck
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This is the funniest shit ever.

Cancel! Cancel! cancel! cancel. cancel?... please cancel ... anybody?

dammitfucksumbitchshit why me? dammitfucksumbitchshit

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:33 | 6443773 clade7
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Ha!  Not a member of AM, after being faithfully married for 35+ yrs, I understand the appeal and the excitement of the thought though...

It would be nice to have some hot stinky sex with a willing partner other than myself.   I'm cheap and scared of germs, so bar hopping or these high dollar sites are out...that might be why I also drink alone, So I can take advantage of myself economically.

I do enjoy my own company mostly, but it would sure be nice to have some hot stinky sex with a woman now and then just to establish a baseline you know?...Lemme pull up Craigslist and have a look at the local market...

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:46 | 6443345 Chris Dakota
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Owners of the site are tribe members.

what a shocker!

haha

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:01 | 6444191 MSimon
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Were. They sold out and left the bag with some one else. Smart folks. Which is why they are rich.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:19 | 6443499 Thorny Xi
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https://ashley.cynic.al

Email checker

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:35 | 6443544 Apathetic or Wh...
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https://ashleymadisonleakeddata.com/check/ 

 

Easy way to check if a email address is on the list

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:35 | 6443545 Apathetic or Wh...
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https://ashleymadisonleakeddata.com/check/ 

 

Easy way to check if a email address is on the list

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:51 | 6443564 BLOTTO
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Hey - why dont they hack something really BIG - not just about tits and dicks.

.

Hack CERN, 9/11 files, Sandy Hook, Boston Smoke Bombing...SOMETHING HARDCORE and world altering damn it.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:07 | 6444207 OldPhart
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Even though I've never been to that website, I certainly hope they spell my name right.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:07 | 6443203 bamawatson
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as monica lewinsky said "the whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth"

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:09 | 6443211 konputa
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Fuck. Damn it knukles, you outted me.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:55 | 6443375 divingengineer
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That reminds me, I have not seen hide nor hair of the Wookie lately. 

Wonder what its up to?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:04 | 6443422 CuttingEdge
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Last I heard, she was at Pinewood Studios working on the new Star Wars trilogy - saves Disney a shitload in make-up costs when you can utilise the real thing.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:06 | 6443196 Bill of Rights
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Dad why is your name on the internets?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:09 | 6443207 JustObserving
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What happens on the internet, stays on the internet - forever.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 20:04 | 6445547 knukles
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Brilliant!

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:09 | 6443209 firstdivision
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What does one do when they find your dad and mom on the list?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:16 | 6443239 SumTing Wong
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Didn't ZH cover the story where the Polish man went to the brothel...and his wife was the prostitute he got paired with? Both partners were very angry with the other from what I remember.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:20 | 6443738 Lumberjack
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Father's surprise: call-girl daughter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2319863.stm

 

An Israeli couple are preparing to divorce after the man summoned a prostitute to his hotel room only to discover she was his daughter.

The tale of family turmoil began some months ago when the father, a businessman based in the city of Haifa, was sent by his company to a course in the resort of Eilat for four days.

The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reports that the man took advantage of the visit to summon a call girl to his room on his first night there.

And that was when everything started to go horribly wrong...

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 17:50 | 6445245 The Blank Stare
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My favorite is the 911 story. Wife calls husband who works at the Trade Center after the first plane hits. "Honey! Are you OK?" Yeah, of course! Why, what's going on?"

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:19 | 6443255 Wild Theories
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if it's your mom, tell your friends and charge $50 each for an introduction

if it's your dad, ask him for $100 per female friend of yours you bring home to introduce to him

 

the price is not an indication that mom is cheap, but dad is likely to be more desperate

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:08 | 6443206 Atomizer
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37 million people are dialing up a attorney. Serves them right, never be disloyal to your spouse. 

Wonder how many high profile names are on the list?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:10 | 6443216 firstdivision
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Smart people used all fake information and used Visa gift cards to pay for the subscription.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:11 | 6443221 HonkyShogun
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No, smart people left that jewscam the fuck alone.

 

It's mostly chatbots and AM staff.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:13 | 6443225 BobPaulson
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Or signed up after hacking and using their enemies' accounts.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:13 | 6443226 Atomizer
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Thanks for the Intel, I wouldn't know. 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 14:10 | 6444459 Son of Captain Nemo
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Smart people used all fake information and used Visa gift cards to pay for the subscription.

Like Eliot Spitzer?!!!

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:10 | 6443217 HonkyShogun
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A whole lot. Trump is right, our "leaders" are filthy morons. Not that he'd actually change it but still.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:46 | 6443580 Son of Captain Nemo
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A whole lot. Trump is right, our "leaders" are filthy morons. Not that he'd actually change it but still.

No worries... Trump's probably on the list as well.

It's been hard getting 18 yr olds for him ever since Bob Guccione died!

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:26 | 6443283 Niall Of The Ni...
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It won't do much good.

The Hillary Clintons of the world generally know what they were signing up for. Small price to pay for wealth and status they had no chance of acquiring honestly---and Hillary can trust the press not to ask too many questions about Huma Abedin.

The only marriages this will end will be those of unhappily married proles.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:27 | 6443289 Miffed Microbio...
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One of the worst things you can do in my field is falsely report a person has an STD. Even if you correct the report and notify all it was a mistake, it is a severe issue and you will have a written reprimand in your file which can effect your chance to get another job.

I questioned the severity of this and it was explained that it can damage a marriage beyond repair. One work associate actually testified at a divorce trial and he was devastated his mistake was " the straw".

I think many on the list are not guilty, just checking it out. Doubt is a terrible thing to put between a married couple even those in a strong relationship.

Miffed

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:52 | 6443366 WillyGroper
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Wonder the consequences of all those eggs & lil swimmy thingies once out of the oven & not consistent with the donors.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:53 | 6443370 Lumberjack
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Miffed, this is one instance that wrecked the legal system...

 

https://badchemistry.wbur.org/2013/11/22/dookhan-plea-prison

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:57 | 6443888 Miffed Microbio...
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This is terrible. I honestly believe fraud in the lab should have an automatic canceling of ones license and jail time if someone is hurt. There was a horrendous case of a cytotechnologist not properly screening slides for cancer. In those days they were paid by the slide. Several people died of cancer because it was not found in time. This case changed the industry and there is a limit to the number of slides a person can screen in a day.

I once had a person tell me it is ok to cheat on college exams. Everyone does it, it hurts no one and it's rare if you get caught. I told them 97% of my TB slides are negative so if I don't even look at them and report them all negative I have a high probability of being right. Each slide is backed up with a culture so we will catch any positives, just 3 weeks later. So, I guess she's right. I shouldn't bother looking at them. She called bullshit, my case mattered. I said character is universal not situational. We parted company. I hope she never went in the medical field.

Miffed

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:59 | 6443645 OneEyedJack
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Wonder how many high profile names are on the list?

What is  Most of Congress for 100 Alex

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:09 | 6443210 Anopheles
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The majority of women's profiles on that site are fake, produced by AM themselves, or hookers.  Apparelnly 90 to 95% of users of the site are men.  

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:11 | 6443460 e_goldstein
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 Not this one:

 Snow leopard gnome lady practiced in the occultic rituals of central banking looking for BBC.

Respond to MrYellen@FedRezBored.com

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:12 | 6443224 falak pema
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As Kissinger said: Power is an APhrodisiac.

So don't look no further to understand why people with time on their hands and power in their pockets love Ashley and are mad about Madison.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:14 | 6443474 Urban Redneck
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This is not a job for GREP... I want to cross reference a CSV dump of all the telephones and emails in my entire address book.  Time to dust off the SQL.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:49 | 6443597 Son of Captain Nemo
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This is not a job for GREP...

Sed and awk work well...

Perl also...

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:15 | 6443237 Kina
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so...dont use your name in your email address, and have separate email addresses for different things.

 

I have a particular email address I use for things that might attract spam, and never check the inbox.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:18 | 6443248 Catullus
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Check out the post on the second torrent:

Did you guys come across this little nugget in the files yet? Impact Team hid an Easter Egg message in their hack. Their manifesto...

"Avid Life Media runs Ashley Madison, the internet's #1 cheating site, for people who are married or in a relationship to have an affair. ALM also runs Established Men, a prostitution/human trafficking website for rich men to pay for sex, as well as cougar life, a dating website for cougars, man crunch, a site for gay dating, swappernet for swingers, and the big and the beautiful, for overweight dating.

Trevor, ALM's CTO once said "Protection of personal information" was his biggest "critical success factors" and "I would hate to see our systems hacked and/or the leak of personal information"

Well Trevor, welcome to your worst fucking nightmare.

We are the Impact Team. We have hacked them completely, taking over their entire office and production domains and thousands of systems, and over the past few years have taken all customer information databases, complete source code repositories, financial records, documentation, and emails, as we prove here. And it was easy. For a company whose main promise is secrecy, it's like you didn't even try, like you thought you had never pissed anyone off.

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.

So far, ALM has not complied.

First, we expose that ALM management is bullshit and has made millions of dollars from complete 100% fraud. Example:
-Ashley Madison advertises "Full Delete" to "remove all traces of your usage for only $19.00"
-It specifically promises "Removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site"
-Full Delete netted ALM $1.7mm in revenue in 2014. It's also a complete lie.
-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.
-Other very embarrassing personal information also remains, including sexual fantasies and more
-We have all such records and are releasing them as Ashley Madison remains online.

Avid Life Media will be liable for fraud and extreme personal and professional harm from millions of their users unless Ashley Madison and Established Men are permanently placed offline immediately.

Our one apology is to Mark Steele (Director of Security). You did everything you could, but nothing you could have done could have stopped this.

This is your last warning,

Impact Team
We are not opportunistic skids with DDoS or SQLi scanners or defacements. We are dedicated, focused, skilled, and we're never going away. If you profit off the pain of others, whatever it takes, we will completely own you.

For our first release, and to prove we have done all we claim, we are listing *one* Ashley Madison credit card transaction for each day for the past 7 years, complete with customer name and address (oneperday.txt) and associated profile information (oneperday_am_am_member.txt and oneperday_aminno_member.txt, selected rows from our complete dump of the AM databases). We are also releasing a hash dump and zone file for both domains, select documents from your file servers, executives' google drives, and emails, and the Ashley Madison source code repository. Also, since Ashley Madison stopped using plaintext passwords, we're also releasing the swappernet user table, which still has plaintext passwords:
https://bitbucket.org/TheImpactTeam/ashley
https://bitbucket.org/TheImpactTeam/ashleymadisondump
https://gitlab.com/ImpactTeam/ashley
https://gitlab.com/ImpactTeam/ashleymadisondump
https://launchpad.net/ashley

1 example from this dump: "PERNELL GRAZETTE", with profile ID 23288650, who spitefully paid for Ashley Madison the day after valentine's day in

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:49 | 6443352 Lumberjack
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Good job team... Now how about some clinton e-mails? Puhleeze?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:20 | 6443260 Mike Honcho
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Those pathetic losers have a right to privacy, but you got got.

 

I get women the archaic way, by approaching them.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:23 | 6443273 astoriajoe
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I bet you're a goldbug too.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:35 | 6443310 Atomizer
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Top 5 Best Sex Apps & Dating Websites | Heavy.com

He has all the iCrapple applications on his phone, courtesy of Apple store. 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:03 | 6443414 Ceomegaglobalcorp
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Word. Still pullin' 20 -somethings too. Met the current one walking through the mall. Never did online.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:26 | 6443269 Dr. Engali
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So is this where Obama found his latest "appointee" ?

Obama appoints first transgender White House staff member

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/18/politics/transgender-white-house-obama-fir...

I wonder if Reggie and the wookie get jealous.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:24 | 6443274 Atomizer
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Does this mean Visa, Mastercard, and American Express will terminate credit card transactions? They did this to backpage.com under sex slave allegations. (A sheriff in Chicago). I hope the Sheriff is on this list. 

/LoL

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:27 | 6443284 22winmag
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OT

 

If Bitcoin crashed over 15% yesterday in the forest and nobody was around to hear it (not even ZH apparently), did it make a sound?

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:47 | 6443341 GeorgeHayduke
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Geeze, you're not sold on Bitcoin yet? you mean you don't like the idea of having a yard sale and having you and the buyer pull out your hacked and tracked phones to make a transaction only to find that the buyer's phone has poor reception in your neighborhood? I mean, the buyer could drive around until he has "enough bars" to make the deal then come back an pick the stuff up. It's all about the CONvenience.

Plus, then EVERYONE can carry their phone around like an absolutely necessary added appendage and be an obnoxious asshole who has loud conversations in the checkout line so everyone can see how important they are. Oh won't life be so much more hip, groovy high tech when that happens? I can hardly wait to add more layers of "high tech" entropy bullshit to my daily life.

 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:09 | 6443448 TalkToLind
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Get ready...soon it will be illegal for Murican citizens to travel to any area without full cell coverage.  It becomes very difficult for Uncle Sugar to use your personal tracking device to account for your exact coordinates when there are no bars.  

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:02 | 6443293 TalkToLind
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Is Your Name In The Ashley Madison Hack?

No, but I am known to click on those Hot Asian Women banner ads with the buxom models from time to time.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:31 | 6443294 GeorgeHayduke
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This is all fun and games. However, can Edward Snowden or another country's intelligence agency release the hacked information they have about what really happened on 911? That would be hacked information that actually matters.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:00 | 6443650 Manipulism
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Would be fun but controlled opposition is never doing this.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:48 | 6443852 Son of Captain Nemo
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However, can Edward Snowden or another country's intelligence agency release the hacked information they have about what really happened on 911? 

GH I've repeatedly been bringing that one up here since Ed became a God.  As much as I am grateful for what he allegedly did, I don't think he's in the same league as Binney and Drake...  

But then again why won't the both of them as VIPS along with the creator Ray McGovern & pals talk about the subject of who did 9/11?...

Going on the 14th Anniversary you can still hear a pin drop!

I'm not saying he's not important I'm just pointing out what they will and won't talk about and that goes for the likes of Julian Assange that said 9/11 is nothing more than an irrelevant distraction to what the U.S. government has done thereafter.  With all the damage that has and is still being done whats your life worth when you helped create the mess you and everyone else is now in?  And trust me they know who did 9/11.  Who the fuck cares what Ed Snowden knows on the subject as his career with the agency hadn't even started when it happened!

 I'm of the opinion that Ed volunteered for the job as "scapegoat' as there are many, many, many more intel professionals that are "Ed Snowden Union" and are just waiting to say to the guys and gals in Congress along with their bosses by all means cross the line and see what happens next!...

 You either come clean with what you know or die a coward!  Toom much has happened because of our government and it's clear that the direction isn't changing fast enough!

 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:11 | 6444217 Freddie
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They raided (with guns) the houses of Thomas Drake, Roark, Binney, and Wiebe. Drake and the others were put through the ringer. They tried to get Ms. Roarke to testify against Drake and she refused.

Drake was given a BS plea deal which he refused.  It takes a lot of guts to do that.   They put him on trial again in Maryland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake

If you do not plead they will jail you or ruin you. 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 13:38 | 6444307 Son of Captain Nemo
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Freddie

You're information is correct and your opinions on the subject valid.

I'm certain that all of them have had death threats not just to them but to their wives and children since they came out and informed.  No doubt about it the coercions and crimes to keep them silent is beyond the pale, legally, ethically and morally.  But this didn't just start after "9/11" it started on their watch long before... Case in point if you haven't read Wa-Po's (14 years late) article that was here on ZH a few days ago you'll get an eyeful of how deep the rabbit hole actually went while these guys were officers in the beginning and middle of their career(s) especially Operations within NSA that were called by name for domestic spying after the Baby Bells were split up in the mid-eighties.  But to be fair it's always been about "compartments" in those agencies and a hierarchy of loyalty and allegiences when you're in them!

I'm simply arguing that when you "sign up" with clandestine agencies like the ones they use to work for, all the trappings and baggage come with the turf you bought for a career and a paycheck.

At some point you have to take a look at the whole picture and the money that is involved and make a decision on where you want your National Security and the rest of your government to be based on the oaths you took to protect and defend not your boss, your paycheck and pension but the law.

I think we hit the ultimate brick wall in 2011 with the passage of the NDAA on the last day of that year, when the President made very public overtures that he disagreed with what his powers should be under Section(s) 1021 and 1022 -but signed it anyway!

Hope more NSA and Langley people feel that after 9/11, the Patriot Act(s) and NDAA that the sacrifices they will have to make in order to change it will never be too great!

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 19:26 | 6445437 GeorgeHayduke
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Sounds like you are much more informed on this shadowy side of the spy game than I am, and I am glad that you and others are. It's nearly impossible to keep up with all the scams, Ponzis, false flags, dis-info campaigns, etc... Keep hammering away at them though. Someone needs to do the right thing at point...at least you hope there's some humanity left.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:34 | 6443306 Dg4884
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See?  As Obama's favorite preacher proclaimed...   The Chickens are com'n home to roost!  Now, if those chickens would only migrate to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave!

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:34 | 6443307 Moonrajah
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Divorce lawyers are gearing up as we speak.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:38 | 6443318 Heywood Jahblohmee
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Downloading right now.  lots of seeds.  speeding up by the minute.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:43 | 6443334 Heywood Jahblohmee
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Running BitComet as my front end.  so far over 50 seeders.  Download speed at moment is 800k

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:09 | 6443447 BustainMovealota
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Threr are over a thosand seedes.  Ingesting in my MongoDB now then pipe into AWS with some cool data analytics web front end.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:41 | 6443326 loregnum
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These people sound like some of the idiot feminazis out there. That or they are white knight dickless men who worship the vag. They seem to only care about the male cheaters and I call bullshit on the 90-95% active figure. Even if that were the case, it's OK that females signed up and decided not to be active?

Fucking hate this poon worshiping society we live in.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:19 | 6443500 SirBarksAlot
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The honey pot trap is the easiest way to control a politician, through blackmail.  At least according to Wayne Madsen, former NSA whistle-blower.

Sigh.  It's always about the money.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:25 | 6443518 PrimalScream
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that's TRUE.  and so if you were a CHINESE HACKER - it would make a lot more sense to hack the names of everybody on the AM client list.  Because that's your starting point - to run the Honey Pot Tap. 

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:24 | 6443513 HonkyShogun
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What exactly are you mad about?

 

Thanks.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:38 | 6443810 MsCreant
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He got a woman, she won't be true..

Hey, hey, what can I do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIeOQOWByQ8

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 22:00 | 6445830 StychoKiller
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"Well I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life.

Left me out in the cold, rain and snow..."  "Rain & Snow", Grateful Dead

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:47 | 6443589 moman
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You need to get laid dude.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:47 | 6443339 PrimalScream
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WHAT A CIRCUS

This is probably all a MARKETING PLOY by the owners of Ashley Maddison, since their business was crumbling due to a lack of real people. Virtual woman, Virtual hookers, Virtual Johns, ... and virtually nothing going on.

I can't believe that people are stupid enough to fall for this. Any political leaders, CEO's, CFO's and Congressman on that list - SHOULD BE FIRED FOR GROSS STUPIDITY!

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:18 | 6443490 TalkToLind
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Look, don't just junk his comment, give details!  Did you actually get some physical strange from this website?  I gots to know.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:49 | 6443348 williambanzai7
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Check the sexual decadence box on your comparisons to the Weimar period scratch sheet.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:04 | 6443399 Mercury
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+1

The knickers really dropped after the currency collapsed and many a daughter's dowry was destroyed...

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 11:03 | 6443670 ThroxxOfVron
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Destroyed dowery was the least of Little Sister's problems when the money ran out...

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:49 | 6443353 SubjectivObject
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The Impact Team are a bunch of fucking cretins working for .gov.

Where's the dirt on Monsanto and their oligarchic ilk .... bloody red herring fucktards the lot.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:53 | 6443371 Freddie
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What a foolish company.   They could have gotten Hillary to run their servers.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:56 | 6443380 Ceomegaglobalcorp
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"We will not sit by and allow these thieves to force their personal views on citizens around the world."
1) central banks and the resulting centrally-planned economies
2)QE
3) NAFTA/GATT/TPP
3) multiculturalism
4) unrestricted immigration/open borders
5) ZIRP/NIRP
6) bailouts
7)transgender rights
8)gay marriage
9) global warming
10)Agenda 21
11) NSA spying on citizens

For Ashley Madison, like so many titans of industry and finance, it just depends on who's doing the thieving and imposing.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:30 | 6443459 Mercury
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Good luck putting that toothpaste back in the tube.


Like obesity, Ashley Madison is really self-inflicted.

 

Exploiting yourself and giving away a permanent audit trail on yourself in exchange for worthless crap is kind of an epidemic.

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 09:58 | 6443386 hotrod
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Found this one

Barry Soetoro.gov   5 iron anal

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 10:00 | 6443395 sampaine
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"As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same."

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!