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Heh. If I were Ashley Madison, and I wanted to create plausible deniability for people in the real dataset, you know what I'd do? I'd create and "leak" a bunc
by regularfry 11y ago
Heh. If I were Ashley Madison, and I wanted to create plausible deniability for people in the real dataset, you know what I'd do? I'd create and "leak" a bunch of other datasets with generated data, and data pilfered from other hacks, to muddy the waters. "Oh, my name's in there? That must be faked up data from the Playstation Network hack years ago. Of course I'd never sign up to Ashley Madison, Mr Journalist."
- technomancy 11y agoAgreed; it would be insane of them not to.
- ibejoeb 11y agoI haven't seen the dataset. Is there material there that confirms its legitimacy? Are we entirely sure that this isn't just opm, target, home depot, tjx, etc? (Edit: sounds like full dataset dump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10083656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10083656) "sources who all have reported finding their information and last four digits of their credit card numbers in the leaked database." That's ambiguous, and the article indicates that there is considerable doubt as to the authenticity of this purported leak, along with a history of known fakes. Even beyond that, the article mentioned that the emails were never verified, so it sounds like any could use any name and email to establish an account. I'm sure this means trouble for some people, but there seems to be highly plausible deniability.
- txdv 11y agoThey signed the real data set with a key, so if you want to release. Whoever wants to release more, needs to get hands first on that private kye.
- lordsper 11y agoExcept there's already a verified dump out there: 40AE8A90DE40CA3AFA763C8EDB43FC1FC47D75F1 Sorry to burst your bubble, but it just won't work.
- joaq 11y agoGotta love computer science and how it helps solve so many problems :)