Isn't "happily married" an oxymoron?

unless

The police would be* well aware of the risk of linking a suicide to an event and making that link. Therefore, I have assumed that they have specific information to link the hack with the suicides beyond mere coincidence.

*I would hope.

Meh. You'd need more data (i.e. suicide rates before and after) in the AM population. You need to hack their old databases to work that one out

Well I'm happily married, can't speak for my missus

Based on her AM profile she's not

Spend a lot of time reading AM profiles do you Kenneth?

Even then - they may have topped themselves that day for some other reason, had the hack not happened.

Only for your spouse.

All the grovelling about the NSA and privacy, yet people are littering the public Internet with personal details. Some even tell Facebook what they have for lunch. Who needs the NSA when people are doing it for themselves?

The linked article mentions no hard info. Actually, it's not even certain the deaths are actually suicides. If there was a note it certainly would have been mentioned during the press conference.

The story is based on nothing but conjecture.

No, not convinced about the naivety point. It has a membership of lets say 20million, rather than the published list to account for fakes etc. maybe even 10 million. If you book a holiday with a company that's got 10 million customers, would you give them your credit card details for the transaction ? Or would you stop and think 'now way, you might have 10 million customers but if I give you my credit card your easily going to get that nicked and splash the details for all and sundry to download'. They weren't a corner shop, they were a multimillion pound business, regardless of the area they dealt with.


Its fairly straightforward to say you have little sympathy with idiocy if you have never, ever, in your life done anything slightly idiotic. the remaining 99.9999999% of people who have however, now often have a reasonable chance that a permanent record is being made of it, which will be around potentially forever. In the end, you'll get what you want because no one will do anything idiotic, or out of the ordinary, because of the possibility of its publicity, which isn't a good thing if you ask me.
We have the internet we get to without governance, i.e. people acting in anarchy with no basic rules, which also isnt a good thing in my view.

http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-th...ase-1725558944

Those usage statistics are pretty eye-opening. For those too lazy to read, there were basically no real women on AM. It's like an infidelity pyramid scheme.

A reddit user described how their business model works:

I was surprised to read that there are 929 names on the list from Hastings, Sussex out of a population of around 90,000

Not impossible. 90'000 / 900 * 30 Millions = World population - Africa - China - India.

Plausible.

On the point of using my credit card .. I use it multiple times per week online, various outlets.. And yes, every one of them no matter how secure are hack targets and I accept that my details have a good chance of being stolen either by some distant hacker or more likely by an employee. It's a risk I'm happy to take because although it would be inconvenient, it's easily fixable. It's a fact of modern convenient online life. I think the same about my email, my online banking, the photos i store in the cloud and the things I write in public here of EF.

If i thought any of these actions would cause my world to collapse if they went wrong -- I wouldn't do it, simple as that. Your online footprint should be considered only mostly private. Access to even the most totally secure thing is only a matter of resource and time, if somebody has both it's game over.

So yes the owners of AM should be held responsible for misleading people over privacy .. But we all must take responsibility for our own actions too and know what we're getting into.

But that's just me ..

Hahaha, the subscribers were real losers: 20 million, 1.500 women

http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-th...ase-1725558944

There is no free lunch.

Fidelity from first day of relationship to end of life? Not realistic, sorry.


Many men coming to my practice talk about their private life and moan about the missing sex at home and that is why they are looking for affairs or go to brothels ecc... Some women as from 40 years seem to loose interest in intimacy or earlier according to my clients. So what shall the man or woman in the same situation do in that case for the next 20years? Any suggestions for the missing intimacy at home?


As long as couples do not talk enough about the desires they have and try and find solutions for the problems in their marriage these Dating sites will always be full of men who are not singles. Of course there are some singles on these sites, too but they don't have to fear a row with the girl-friend or wife at home.


To all the women who found out the husband was on one of these sites or even met another woman secretly: think over your married life and talk to him why he did it. It always takes 2 for problems in the relationship. If he has what he needs at home he probably wouldn`t look for it outside...

Have you considered, perhaps, that your sample might be somewhat skewed?

Complete. Utter. Nonsense.

No only is your dataset skewed, but your logic is so off, it's hard to know where to start to critique it.

Meanwhile, back on topic, it seems that AM charge $19 to remove members details permanently, and didn't do it. They removed things like name but kept data like: weight, height, d.o.b., gps coordinates...

statistically, about 70% of married men have cheated on their wives. the statistics are about the same for married women.

it seemed a little high to me, but i guess if you consider cheating as broader than just sex, then it is plausible.

*according to studies done by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shere_Hite in the 90s.

Ashley Madison is proving to be a fraud and scam. I'm expecting the Canadian Mounties to charge its founder, Noel Biderman, with fraud in the coming weeks.