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Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims
wired_parrot writes: Toronto police are reporting that 2 unconfirmed suicides have been linked to the data breach. This follows pleas from other users of the site for the hackers to not release the data before it was exposed- an anonymous gay Reddit user from Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is illegal, pleaded for the data to be kept private: "I am about to be killed, tortured, or exiled," he wrote. "And I did nothing." And when The Intercept published a piece condemning the puritanical glee over the data dump, one user who commented on the article said she's been "a long term member" of the site because her spouse's medical condition has affected their intimate life. Her spouse knows she's engaged with other Ashley Madison members, she says, but now fears she will likely lose friends and have to find a new job now that her association with the site is out there.
Ashley Madison has now offered a $380,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the hackers who leaked the data. Security researcher Troy Hunt has also posted about the kind of emails he's received from users after the data leak.
Toronto police are reporting that 2 unconfirmed suicides have been linked to the data breach.
so, basically corollary conjecture pertaining to sets of potential outcomes of a data breech.
Dont get me wrong, as a homosexual I'm not at all condoning the death of a person for their sexuality. I think puritanical elation is at best inappropriate as a response to the incident. But frankly Ashley Madisons catchphrase was 'lifes short, have an affair.' As a saudi national, someone is unfortunately about to find out exactly how short that life can really be. Standard issue infidelity aside there are numerous gay dating sites you could have chosen. numerous potential outlets for gay, straight, questioning, bisexual, whatever your heart desires. But selecting Ashley Madison shows a puerile approach to interpersonal relationship as well as sexual orientation in general. Homosexuality is not the same as a casual extramarital affair.
Good people go to bed earlier.
When he was CEO of SUN, Scott was once quoted as saying "You already have no privacy. Get over it."
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Forgive me for being the odd duck out here, but what ever happened to "Personal Responsibility"? I, too, think it's wrong for the hackers to release that information. It sounds like a despicable act of misguided morality to me, but that's irrelevant.
These people took their own lives, the external stressers don't really matter; they CHOSE to commit suicide. Maybe if signing up and using that site was such an emotional risk for them, they shouldn't have done it?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
This is a bit like saying you're going to send someone to jail for getting rear-ended waiting at a traffic light.
I totally agree, data security is a big deal - but I think "gross negligence" probably covers the fact that someone did not put proper security in place. Beyond that, it's an arms race. You can't hold someone responsible for being hacked, unless they've demonstrated that they didn't even try to avoid it. Reasonable preventative measures.
The same reason you can't claim insurance when you don't have any locks on your house. But if they really want to, that moat and electric fence won't stop someone from breaking into your house.
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If I leave my door open, and my stuff gets stolen, I am the one who has been punished.
If some asshole corporation fails at security, and my stuff gets stolen, I am still the one who has been punished.
See, the stuff being stolen here ... It's not the property of the corporation, and they're not the ones who suffer when it is stolen. They've deemed themselves trustworthy to hold onto your data, and failed to safeguard it.
Oh, sure, they might get a little bad PR, and the stock might slip a little. But that asshole executive who decided security was too costly? It's not his data being stolen, and it's not him who has to deal with it.
So he, being an asshole executive, says "wow, we're not really sorry but if we say it will you shut up and go away?"
This is more like I've got stuff in my safe deposit box, and the bank gets robbed, and the bank say "wow, that's totally not our fault".
Your analogy sucks.
Corporations failing to protect the private and sensitive information they have been entrusted with are not the fucking victims, and they don't get to play the victim card.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Your own Apples to other people's Orangutans comparison.
The Government requires you to have vehicle insurance because you impact other people if you wreck on a road. Banks are required to have insurance protecting a specific percentage of deposited wealth. You will go to jail if you kill someone while driving even if it was on accident if you don't have insurance. Banks have had people go to jail when they lied about or have not met obligations required by law. Why should a business be treated differently exactly? No reason, except that we lack enforceable regulation.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
And that is the root cause of this whole situation. We need to find a way to change the overall mindset (especially in these here Unitee States) towards other people's personal sexual congresses. Not only should it be nobody else's business, but nobody should even **care** what some person they're neither related to nor dating is doing.
If someone's cheating on a spouse (and the spouse does not approve of extramarital sex), the spouse will likely find out one way or another at some point. What happens to the couple is up to them. But what your employees, or Congressional reps, or sports/music/theatre idols do in their personal lives including sex, just plain shouldn't matter.
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Yes, this is quite unfortunate. However: given a random selection of 30 million individuals, at what rate would suicides be observed? Make sure you know the answer to this question before jumping to conclusions.
Social media is for fools. It's not just Ashley Madison. It's Facebook too. It is just amazing to me how people will pony up so much personal information and entrust other people to "manage" it.
How long is it going to be before someone hacks into Facebook and steals millions of user account details? Email addresses, phone numbers (in some cases), family photos, where you work (in some cases), all your friends (in some cases), you name it.
Buyer beware.