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Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Graham Cluley says he has been forwarded a blackmail letter, sent to a member of the controversial Ashley Madison adultery website. In the letter the blackmailer says that unless $2,000 worth of bitcoin is paid within 10 days, the recipient's wife, friends and colleagues will be informed of his misdemeanors. In a threatening twist, the letter goes on to give personal details of another victim who refused to pay the blackmailers, and how his personal life and work were targeted as a result. Cluley's advice to recipients is not to pay the blackmailers, but to tell the U.S. Postal Inspectors Service.

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  1. Re:Misogyny Gets What it Deserves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, you consider it "rape" when the man goes on a website whose express purpose is to get him laid... a woman also goes on the website whose purpose, again, is to get her laid... and the woman opens up enough details about herself to the man in order for them to meet in order to have sex?

    Man: Let's do it.
    Woman: OK.
    (both get naked and start fooling around)
    Woman: RAPE!!!!

    Is this what you consider "Rape Culture"? That's what I'm getting from it.