The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked

Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by mtgx on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @05:24AM (#10084425)

> Agree, though one could argue that what AM is doing is an explicit attempt to damage the basic building block of society, i.e. family

Eh. So you think the people exposing husbands and wives cheating on each other are the ones breaking families, not the ones actually cheating?

Don't shoot the messenger, comes to mind (okay, maybe imprison the messenger if he obtained the data in an illegal way, but I don't think he should be imprisoned or worse for "breaking families", when he wasn't the one committing the act that ends up breaking the family apart).

Isn't that kind of how private eyes work, too? Should they be punished for "breaking families"?

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @05:32AM (#10084445)

I'm not saying that people exposing cheating spouses are breaking families. I'm saying that AM was by explicitly encouraging that. It's not just a random dating website, it's the website targeting married people and running campaigns saying cheating is OK.

I am definitely not arguing for shooting the messenger (I apologize if my comment was not clear enough about that) - what I want to say is that I may agree the boundary between "ok hack" and "not ok hack" may lie on the public concerns/private concerns line, but IMO one could argue that Ashley Madison lies on the "public interest" side.

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Re:The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked by mtgx on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:11AM (#10084550)

Actually, it's my fault, I thought you were referring to the people who dumped the data.

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