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Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack (cnn.com)
New submitter fardindany writes with news that the months-old Ashley Madison hack seems to have had little impact on new users joining up. CNN reports: "Despite the infamous hack that exposed millions of cheaters online, infidelity dating site Ashley Madison says its ranks are growing. At the time of the hack, Ashley Madison said it had 39 million members. The website now says it has more than 43 million members, according to a rolling count on its homepage."
And 3,999,996 bots.
After 10 million subscribers left, AshleyMadison added 14 million more fake accounts. It's clear to see that their service has grown 10% from the fiasco.
Without some really strong evidence, why would anyone believe these 4 million new members aren't 99% AI-controlled bots? Or at least 99% of the new female users.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
After all, what do bots care about reputation?
At best!
Bot accounts shouldn't count.
has been busy.
who would doubt such a well respected company?
4 million of them.
The news is something they know nothing about since they constantly watch Faux Knews.
>> according to a rolling count on its homepage
Has anyone NOT on SlashDot NOT written a visitor/user/customer counter that started at a fictitious number and automatically incremented as time went on? (This is, after all, the culture of "fake it until you make it.")
As if anyone that isn't stupid ever joined
Why would their kind join a dating site when all they do is rape.
And that channel demands women subject themselves to being raped.
4 million "women"? Hahahahaha. Good luck, boys!
Cmon, Even I can write a better macro than that...
It only does a user every 2 seconds.
Not just raped, but constantly raped.
That is how they be
And they cheat on their wives. Cheat on their wives.
Those Republicans are probably using it to find new victims.
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Since almost all of the accounts from women in AM were mad up "for amusement" as per the T&C and run by staff members you can only presume that the 4,000,000 figure is almost all Bots and a few sad and desperate guys.
You'd have to be stupid to trust them with personal information. Oh wait. You said Republicans.
Doubt there are any women to meet them though, just Ashley Madison employees (who may or may not be female or human) to lead them on.
Finding new victims?
I have to ask the question: In a world where something like this exists, why even bother with the pretense of 'marriage' at all anymore? In the U.S. the divorce rate is at least 50%, and it's as bad in many places all over the world; it's not far-fetched to assume that even in places where the rate is low, it just means people are cheating on their spouses and not bothering with divorce. Even ignoring that, what's the purpose of marriage in modern times, anyway? Bastardy used to carry a huge social stigma, but I don't see that being so in modern times. Beyond that it's just a civil contract, with all that implies, and when the people involved decide to split, it complicates things. Really, in the modern world, what's the point? It's not like anyone seems to be taking it seriously as a 'committment'.
Oddly enough, nobody but them gives a fuck about it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Prospects are improving!
They could supply the 'women' through Amazon movie-script chatbots...
Did it say if these new members were also from the IP address 127.0.0.1?
The hack brought a lot of publicity for the site, i wasn't previously aware that it existed and i'm sure many others weren't too.
Would be interesting to know how many people have signed up using fake details, or have signed up solely out of curiosity having read about the hack...
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I Am Not a Bot
I somehow can only read that hearing Richard Nixon's voice in my head saying it. heh
"Never give up, for that is just the time and place when the tide will change." -Harriet Beecher Stowe ^_^
The US population counter gives the US population as 323M + 1 person every 13 seconds.
Ashley Madison claims 39M users + 4M users in 4 months.
Doing the math gives crossover in 2045, at which time everyone in the country will be on Ashley Madison.
According to their religious text, it is required for women to submit.
And the comment itself in Shatner's voice?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
4,000,000 bots? Either that or that's a real sausage-fest.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
But, have they required Email confirmation yet? Cuz 5 of my email adresses were in the Data dump, and i had never heard of AM till the hack.
I went to their site and did a simple injection to double check the count -
select count(*) from ashley.members where gender = 'M';
count(*) = 38,475
Yup, hardley any female members....
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more morons in the world than previous believed to be.
Heh...are any of them women?...
Still better odds than those guys have in the real world.
A fool and his privacy are soon parted.
I, for example, never heard of them before the attacks. Like me there were probably many others. Publicity is publicity. While I have no need for an account there, there could be many others who havent heard of them that did make an account. Is not that implausible.
The ratio of people who want a marriage for that very reason is astonishing, even planning decades in advance to utilize this as a source of "income" instead of having to do actual work.
Newspapers and the InterNet are full of people offering themselves "for marriage" to any sufficiently rich and spending-happy partner.
And also they have blood orgies and consume the souls of orphans!
That's because this country is filled with shit.
..most AM accounts were "hey what's this?" non-paying, non verified accounts, I believe them. They added 4million accounts of people signing up/in to see what the big deal was after all the hype.
Now, how many paying accounts are there of those? IIRC previously it was like 1%.
Well, if 39 million people were outed on when Ashley Madison got hacked, it stands to reason that there are about 39 million others that are now interested in using Ashley Madison and don't really care if their spouses know they are on it. PROFIT!!
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The new Ashley Madison is so secure I created a new account using my boss's name
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I wonder why. Not because of the data breach, but because of the various analyses done that gave strong evidence that your chances of talking to an actual female on the site is pretty close to zero. After that got out, why would any man register an account there, even for free?
Maybe these are all women who are glad that the ratio is such, because it gives them better chances? ;-)
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Why would you not believe they added 4 million new members?
It was reported that there was a least 1 woman.
Just the fact there was any was astounding.
Bots aside, the so-called new members are probably current members signing up for new accounts with different email addresses and pseudonyms instead of real names to protect their identity in the event of another breach.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.