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SEO expert hired and fired by Ashley Madison turned on company promising revenge
- meepmorp 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoOK, but can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yieldcrv 3y ago[flagged]
- kibibu 3y agoI don't think hackers should release people's private information at all
- zx8080 3y agoProbably, companies should not store private information to be then stolen by hackers. But this and yours opinions don't matter as money talks. Capitalism does not care of what's right or wrong. Unfortunately, people sometimes, too.
- bsder 3y ago> the most it did was reveal that there werent enough real women in the website and many NPCs, so enterprising sex workers signed up to fill the market void, turning the site into a success and saving the company from fraud claims. How did this work for the sex workers? At some point, they need to bring up "getting paid" and that's not going to be a comfortable conversation given the client expectations.
- JohnFen 3y agoBut if those clients were married, then they may have been willing to pay regardless of what their expectation were.
- yieldcrv 3y agodecently well? plenty of people use Ashley Madison just like Seeking Arrangements, plenty of people on Seeking are looking for something for free ask some sex workers there are a couple subreddits
- pinkcan 3y ago> impactful against the users dude, what? People committed suicide the last time this shit happened. Maybe redirect your outrage at the company's executives?
- yieldcrv 3y ago[flagged]
- maxbond 3y ago> I’m explaining marketing 101 because a lot of hackers fail at it You're jawboning and being edgy on the internet, let's not pretend it's for our benefit.
- yieldcrv 3y agoI'd actually like to see this as an improvement to a big dump, and this is the first space I've seen where this discussion is applicable. Nothing I said was inaccurate, the 2015 breach was dissected and was followed by more signups by women filling in the gap. I think there is something wrong with the consensus from you all.
- maxbond 3y agoWhat your missing is that to an outsider reading your posts, you're transparently indulging in edgy fantasies, and what you're proposing is actually a strategy to hurt people more effectively. So we tell you that what you're advocating for is gross. You seem to have taken that as a sign we aren't smart enough to understand your point. That's not the right takeaway. If you think the accuracy of your statements is relevant to people's criticisms, you haven't understood them. If you think you have a good point that we haven't given full credence to, it's not our fault as an audience that you presented your ideas poorly. Good luck.
- yieldcrv 3y agothe big dumps are going to happen my general mantra is focus on what you can control
- bonestamp2 3y agoHas this story ever been turned into a dramatic TV series or film? Or maybe a thriller, or even a comedy (based on how bad this guy is at being a criminal)?
- HWR_14 3y agoHulu just released an Ashley Madison series. So, yes.
- gumby 3y agoLiterally the very first text of the article is "[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.]".
- bonestamp2 3y agoYou're right, I only read the first half of that sentence before I skipped to the next sentence. I need to stop trying to speed read, I'm missing important details!
- timewasterthrow 3y agoI have a close friend that I work with often, that often talks about his speed reading abilities, and I kid you not, he basically misunderstands important info or concepts in basically everything he is tasked with reading. I'd slow down.
- gumby 3y agoIf it's worth reading, it's worth reading. "Speed reading", to the degree it's meaningful at all, only applies to a few cases: skimming repetitive things, like a collection of news articles on a topic; stuff full of filler (e.g. business books), and doing a quick overview of a scientific paper before going back to the top and reading it carefully and slowly. And honestly, in the first couple of cases: why read that stuff at all?
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- clearleaf 3y agoThe title of this is a good example of a garden path sentence.
- archduck 3y ago"SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on" Hehe. Good catch. I doubt the use of "turned on" was intended to be funny here, given the source, but it sure does read like a satirical news headline.
- impissedoff1 3y ago[flagged]
- gmerc 3y agoAny other vice is perfectly fashionable now. Especially greed. Why should this be any different.
- kobalsky 3y agoin almost every vice the "perpetrator" is also the direct and most affected victim, and it's in their power to leave this vice behind. this is not the case for affairs, it's fundmentally different, I wouldn't even call it a vice.
- breakingcups 3y agoNot just that, the fake profiles ("decoys") also seem like basic fraud.
- deterministic 3y agoPeople in all countries around the world cheat. It is not a unique American value.
- impissedoff1 3y agoIt's glorified in American culture. Tv shows, literally every drama, memes, constant cheating references in memes ,like "my wife's boyfriend said..."
- majikaja 3y agoWhy does Ashley Madison need to make fake profiles? Are there not enough women who want sugar relationships in the US? edit: why the downvote? In Japan it's the opposite situation.
- hardware2win 3y ago>why the downvote? In Japan it's the opposite situation. Cultural differences maybe. Isnt US country of independence and freedom, so the thought of a need of sugar daddy is crazy for them?
- raincom 3y agoNot just Ashley Madison, every dating/relationship site is full of fake female profiles. Why? Of course, to force guys to pay in order to respond to winks by these these fake females. There is an old muslim matrimony site based in UK, it is full of fake profiles, they just want to force guys to pay subscription fees in order to respond. Once guys buy subscriptions, these women don't respond.
- sharts 3y agoWho knew krebsonsecurity wrote so much fluff. Like get to the point already bro.
- francisofascii 3y ago> It is evident that Harrison was Biderman’s top suspect immediately after the breach became public Would an SEO expert really be given access to internal tools necessary to pull of this data breach?
- programzeta 3y agoIt’s been my experience that without regulatory heat it takes a massive, embarrassing mistake to get traction on internal tool lockdowns and security.
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