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This is awesome news. I can almost hear all the assholes puckering up right now....lol
I hope they dump the info to be honest. I hate those websites.
I hope they dump the info to be honest. I hate those websites.
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A lot of nervous housewives over this news. Love it.
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Can't wait to see Bill Clinton's login name on Ashley Madison.
His log in revealed
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OMG! All those fake accounts. Where will they troll? Those poor, poor fakers.
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Hackers ruin everyones fun....
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I just read that that was completely bogus. It may have triggered a 'hidden' flag in your profile, but it sounds like the info was just as available to the hackers as everyone else's.
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Well. The site admins are about to have reason to seriously regret that little racket, I'm thinking.
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On the other hand, it eliminates a lot of guess work.
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Ishmael
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Just waiting to see if they're sincere or engaged in extortion. <shrug> In the end it makes no difference to me at all.
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Just to add that either way it's devastating blow to the site. Thank God our government has all that information archived.
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According to Mashable, they did not encrypt the data they stored.
http://mashable.com/2015/07/20/ashleymadison-is-fucked/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link.
Other sources said they did not delete data that the people had paid to have deleted. They also saved credit card numbers of inactive and deleted clients.
These two above things are pretty inexcusable in a site that prides itself on security and only a year ago was bragging about their security.
http://mashable.com/2015/07/20/ashleymadison-is-fucked/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link.
Other sources said they did not delete data that the people had paid to have deleted. They also saved credit card numbers of inactive and deleted clients.
These two above things are pretty inexcusable in a site that prides itself on security and only a year ago was bragging about their security.
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Just to add, remember the Home Depot hack of a few years ago?
They weren't scrubbing the CC data either. Sooo, they had to reimburse the issuing banks for reissuing new cards. On top of that the Feds nailed them for fines as well.
Home depot is still around, their business model is based on product and price. Further they were much larger than AM. AM's business model is based on discretion and trust. Both of which have been severely undermined no matter the fines/costs. I suppose their survival is going to depend on how many desperate housewives there really are out there, and how many other operator's see this as the opportunity it is.
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They weren't scrubbing the CC data either. Sooo, they had to reimburse the issuing banks for reissuing new cards. On top of that the Feds nailed them for fines as well.
Home depot is still around, their business model is based on product and price. Further they were much larger than AM. AM's business model is based on discretion and trust. Both of which have been severely undermined no matter the fines/costs. I suppose their survival is going to depend on how many desperate housewives there really are out there, and how many other operator's see this as the opportunity it is.
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Or in other words, given the numbers of cheating hubbies and cheating wives who are likely to have been frequenting their site: they're toast.
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They have a serious struggle ahead. If they were on the market I wouldn't be buying their stock.
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I doubt they will go public now at this point. Maybe after they rebuild, if they are able to.
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forget Ash Madison and its database
read this!
Obama’s awesome new race database even more awesome than you imagined
We recently discussed a story that wasn’t particularly popular here (to be charitable) which dealt with a new White House plan to implement enforced neighborhood diversity in American towns and cities through the power and influence of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The rest of the nation wasn’t exactly pleased with the idea either, but it did raise some interesting questions. One of the biggest among those was the puzzle of exactly how the federal government plans to figure out precisely how many people in each racial pigeonhole are living where and how they are interacting. Is that sort of data even available to be used in making such determinations, assuming you wanted to do it?
The short answer seems to be “no.” The longer – and apparently more accurate – answer is, “not yet.” But never fear, citizens! As Paul Sperry reports for the New York Post, the required data collection is on the way and it’s going to be mind blowing.
A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”
Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.
This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employer
I assumed at first that they would just be tapping into the census data, but that’s severely limited for this sort of preferential racial tracking. People tend to move around, so the big, decennial numbers tend to go stale after a while. Also, for the majority of respondents, they don’t tell you much more than a zip code to match up with the racial data – far less than you’d need for some of Obama’s ambitious plans. Sperry’s report breaks down some of the digital treasure troves which are being mined to fill in all of those gaps and it’s sounding more and more like The Central Scrutinizer from Joe’s Garage by Frank Zappa.
First there’s the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing database which was announced in our previous coverage linked above. It breaks down every neighborhood by four racial groups and identifies the ones which are in need of correction. (If the ZIP code in question has less than 50% “non-white population” is fails to escape the category of being “segregated.”) But wait… there’s more! The Federal Housing Finance Agency will be tapped to provide individual credit scores (along with “all credit lines” of all types) and employment history. Loan approvals will be tested against racial data along with those other fiscal criteria to root out racism in that sector even if none is being alleged.
But don’t stop there. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (brainchild of Liz Warren) will be providing everyone’s credit card accounts sorted by race. (Side note: I don’t recall telling them my race when I got my last credit card. Odd.) Oh, and the banks will all need to tell Big Brother the race of everyone they hire as well as everyone who applies for a job. That should help them keep an eye on Wall Street, eh? Oh, and wait until you see what the Education Department is up to.
Through its mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection project, the Education Department is gathering information on student suspensions and expulsions, by race, from every public school district in the country. Districts that show disparities in discipline will be targeted for reform.
Those that don’t comply will be punished. Several already have been forced to revise their discipline policies, which has led to violent disruptions in classrooms.
This is some groundbreaking stuff, folks. Has there ever been such an assemblage of personal, private data by the federal government? To what purpose will all of this be put? And apparently it can all be done by the stroke of a pen in the White House without any congressional action or involvement. I suppose the final question here is… is there any way to stop it?
read this!
Obama’s awesome new race database even more awesome than you imagined
We recently discussed a story that wasn’t particularly popular here (to be charitable) which dealt with a new White House plan to implement enforced neighborhood diversity in American towns and cities through the power and influence of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The rest of the nation wasn’t exactly pleased with the idea either, but it did raise some interesting questions. One of the biggest among those was the puzzle of exactly how the federal government plans to figure out precisely how many people in each racial pigeonhole are living where and how they are interacting. Is that sort of data even available to be used in making such determinations, assuming you wanted to do it?
The short answer seems to be “no.” The longer – and apparently more accurate – answer is, “not yet.” But never fear, citizens! As Paul Sperry reports for the New York Post, the required data collection is on the way and it’s going to be mind blowing.
A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.”
Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.
This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama already is using to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employer
I assumed at first that they would just be tapping into the census data, but that’s severely limited for this sort of preferential racial tracking. People tend to move around, so the big, decennial numbers tend to go stale after a while. Also, for the majority of respondents, they don’t tell you much more than a zip code to match up with the racial data – far less than you’d need for some of Obama’s ambitious plans. Sperry’s report breaks down some of the digital treasure troves which are being mined to fill in all of those gaps and it’s sounding more and more like The Central Scrutinizer from Joe’s Garage by Frank Zappa.
First there’s the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing database which was announced in our previous coverage linked above. It breaks down every neighborhood by four racial groups and identifies the ones which are in need of correction. (If the ZIP code in question has less than 50% “non-white population” is fails to escape the category of being “segregated.”) But wait… there’s more! The Federal Housing Finance Agency will be tapped to provide individual credit scores (along with “all credit lines” of all types) and employment history. Loan approvals will be tested against racial data along with those other fiscal criteria to root out racism in that sector even if none is being alleged.
But don’t stop there. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (brainchild of Liz Warren) will be providing everyone’s credit card accounts sorted by race. (Side note: I don’t recall telling them my race when I got my last credit card. Odd.) Oh, and the banks will all need to tell Big Brother the race of everyone they hire as well as everyone who applies for a job. That should help them keep an eye on Wall Street, eh? Oh, and wait until you see what the Education Department is up to.
Through its mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection project, the Education Department is gathering information on student suspensions and expulsions, by race, from every public school district in the country. Districts that show disparities in discipline will be targeted for reform.
Those that don’t comply will be punished. Several already have been forced to revise their discipline policies, which has led to violent disruptions in classrooms.
This is some groundbreaking stuff, folks. Has there ever been such an assemblage of personal, private data by the federal government? To what purpose will all of this be put? And apparently it can all be done by the stroke of a pen in the White House without any congressional action or involvement. I suppose the final question here is… is there any way to stop it?
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lmao ..
