If you find the Ashley Madison database theft funny just wait because you're next.

[Sam_Fields]

Will it be your bank records, employment records, medical records, social security records or your emails. The Internet has wiped away privacy and there is no protection for any of us.

[hobbit709]

1. finger wagging too?

If you can't tell the difference then there's no hope for you.

[hunter]

2. There are naked pics of me on the internet.

I was hot, oh hell yes.

[Snow Leopard]

39. Boom

[Hassin Bin Sober]

46. link or slink

Im a dirty old man.

[Rex]

3. So you are comparing dick pics to bank accounts.

Good luck with that junk!

HERE is some good advice...if you do NOT still love the one you are with, get a divorce. DON'T stick pics of your dick on a place that the entire PLANET can look at and guffaw!

Guffaw guffaw!

[CincyDem]

5. Well...to be fair...my dic pics would be just about as sad as my bank account info. n/t

[Rex]

7. Drumroll!

[CincyDem]

11. If that drumroll is in anticipation of seeing either...just move on. lol. Nothing to see here ! n/t

[Rex]

13. LOL!

Well you cannot blame a fella for trying!

[mindwalker_i]

34. Sorry, I don't believe you

It's the dudes who have the equipment that have no trouble joking about it. When someone goes on and on about how big their dick is, it's probably a toothpick.

[arcane1]

9. .

[Chan790]

23. The one I love and I...

mutually agree on the benefit and enjoyment of side-action.

[Major Nikon]

33. Here's some better advice

Who cares?

Are there really that many people who have such pathetic lives they need to worry about what (or who) someone else is doing?

[Rex]

36. Ever heard of the government?

Your question is silly. Better advice like mind your own business?

[Major Nikon]

44. Certainly that's not silly as hell

Believe it or not, most of the rest of the civilized world outside of the US just really doesn't give a fuck about such things and American's obsession with others' sex lives is frequently a point of ridicule.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Sorry, nothing to embarrass me in there.

Sorry your AM account got hacked, though.

[Rex]

6. Does sound like one of those kind of threads now doesn't it? nt

nt

[arcane1]

8. Anonymous released some of my info, fortunately not much of it.

Just my name and email address. Still, it was a creepy feeling.

Earlier this year my bank card was hacked and a bunch of stuff was purchased with it (some of it even sent to ME!) but luckily I was able to get all the money back.

[Maedhros]

10. I appreciate Glenn Greenwald's take on this:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/20/puritanical-glee-ashley-madison-hack/

But there was also a significant component of sexual moralism to the hacker’s self-described mission. In their original manifesto, they echoed the moral paternalism offered by Gawker’s Max Read to justify his site’s outing of an obscure married financial officer of a magazine company. The hackers proclaimed: “Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion.” In yesterday’s statement announcing their data dump, the hackers directly lectured the users they were exposing with this sermon: “Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you’ll get over it.”

I have little room in my life for sexual moralism of any stripe.

[Chan790]

25. That might be the first thing GG's ever written that I agree with. n/t

[hifiguy]

12. I spend 90% of my online time

at DU, Equestria Daily and a friend's site where he streams cheesy monster movies and 1960s teevee shows on Saturday nights. The rest is probably looking for stuff on Google, streaming cartoons or obscure music on You Tube, and some audio sites.

I am very, very dull.

[Snobblevitch]

14. I stopped using Google over a year ago and now only use DuckDuckGo.

[hifiguy]

16. I use DDG for a lot of things,

but Google finds me more good snarky pics for posting on DU.

[Glassunion]

24. My last Google search was for

Jindal unicorn.

Not disappointed.

[hifiguy]

32. With Googls a a snarky graphic for every occasion is easy to find.

Most helpful.

[WinkyDink]

15. Sorry. These AM hackers deliberately are targeting cheating men.

[msongs]

17. and next time may be deliberately targeting you. hacking is criminal nt

[Hotler]

18. One of the best ways to protect yourself and fuck over the corporations...

is to throw your cell phone away. I have survived many decades without a cell phone, even in elementary, junior high and high school.

[EL34x4]

20. Yet you're here posting on DU.

Yep, so did I. I didn't have a cell phone until I was nearly 30, in 1998.

Let's shitcan our cell phones. Delete our FB accounts. Smash our GPS devices with hammers.

I lived in that world. I don't know if I could live in that world today. I don't know if I would want to.

Let's go back to 1987, shall we? And delete every bit of technology we've known since then.

What was the world like back then? I can barely remember.

[Hotler]

21. Yes, but i don't bank on line, I don't shop on line and...

I don't pay bills on line and my credit card is never used on line. I do all of those things in person or by mail. And 99% of the time I buy with cash. About the only thing i can be tracked on is a tank of gas each week. I do not have any prefered shopper cards so the store can not track my shopping. And if agent Mike is reading my thoughts here on DU, good, he will know how I feel about how things are in this country. If you use a cell phne, if you bank on line etc. don't whine about being hacked or the PTB spying on you.

P.S. Wecome to DU.

[hfojvt]

40. I don't have a cellphone or a GPS

and I doubt if I ever will.

The world wasn't THAT different, but the internet certainly is awesome. GPS is pretty cool too. Cell phones? Meh. I had one for work, was happy to throw it in the river after I stepped down from that job.

[EL34x4]

42. Actually, I miss my pre-cellphone life.

Now that I think about it, I survived just fine with a landline phone, caller ID and an answering machine.

It was kinda nice to be able to step out of the house and be unreachable. Today, if I leave for work and forget my cell, I'll turn around to go get it. I couldn't imagine life without it, despite somehow making it to 30 without ever owning one.

And GPS? I used to look at the map in the phonebook and write down directions. I was late to the GPS game. As recently as 2010, I kept a Thomas Bros. map in my car.

[EL34x4]

19. The internet was never about privacy.

It wasn't designed that way.

The internet was created so that there would be a means of communication that would withstand a nuclear war.

I recall being a college student in the early 1990s. The internet then was basically a mass repository of porn. In the late 1990s, it turned in to the information superhighway. And porn. Still, lots of porn.

In short, don't post anything on the internet that you wouldn't post on an interstate billboard.

[Glassunion]

22. I've been hit 3 times in the past year

Last case someone tried to buy a playstation 4 with my card. I don't have the new playstation yet damnit!

[brooklynite]

26. My salary has been publicly accessible for years...

Such is the fate of a Government employee.

[hfojvt]

41. I don't think mine is

not that I care.

I work for a local government and we sorta don't want taxpayers knowing how well we are paid. Then again, the jobs ARE advertised in the local paper whenever there is an opening.

Still, I can look up the GS pay scale, but how am I supposed to know what grade YOU are. If your name and grade are publicly available, then you must be pretty high up. Can I even find out what the local postmaster makes?

[brooklynite]

45. In NYS, almost every employee's salary is available online...

http://seethroughny.net/

I'm sure someone thought it was a good idea at the time.

(nb - Postmasters are Federal employees, not State)

[Adrahil]

48. Usually that information is publicly available...

I kmow my wife's is.... She is a professor at a state university.

[WestCoastLib]

27. Or just be yourself with those you love and don't worry about it.

There's nothing embarrassing online for me to worry about. I wouldn't sign up for a cheating website. Am I worried that someone might find out that I view porn online? No. I do, but that's not embarrassing to me. I watch porn with my wife. She wouldn't mind.

I've had credit/debit card information stolen before (online and offline). It's annoying, but it's pretty easy to dispute the charges and get your money back.

It's true you should assume you are not anonymous online. So, if you want to lead a secret life online....don't.

[Binkie The Clown]

28. The Internet is just a passing fad anyway.

As the U.S. infrastructure continues to crumble we won't have reliable enough electric power to run the Internet. Besides, there will be horses that need hitching to the plow, potatoes to be planted, chickens to feed, water to fetch from the pond, and firewood to be chopped. We'll be far too busy with chores to bother with trivialities like the Internet.

[Arkana]

29. Those Rolling Stones fellows are OK, but I'd get rid of the singer

with the tire tread lips if I were them.

[Arkana]

30. It's funny, sorry your affair got outed though.

[Tipperary]

31. No, I do not find it funny in the way many do (as in shaming), but I do find it funny that so many

men are so desperate for something on the side that they give out all this info about themselves on a site that is
advertised as being for cheaters. It actually boggles my mind. I think they are stupid and I hope they learned something. I guess I think it is so pathetic that it is that hard for men to get into bed with someone. Also, that it is that important to them that they DO get into bed with someone. No matter who or how. Yecch.

[Nye Bevan]

35. The difference is, if my bank account or employment records are stolen,

people will be generally sympathetic, and my wife will be unlikely to file for divorce .

[Marr]

37. Treat the internet like its a HAM radio.

I'm amazed at how casual people are with the internet. People who seem otherwise sensible and intelligent do the most exposing things and just *assume* it's all private and locked up tight.

[kcr]

38. When people's bank records are stolen, I feel bad for them.

When cheaters are exposed, I don't feel bad for them. It doesn't mean I condone hacking. You don't have to condone cheating on a spouse in order to condemn hacking. I don't understand what is so hard about holding two ideas in ones head at the same time.

[wheniwasincongress]

43. How many of the AM men

and even those who condone the hacking, were lined up to see the hacked female celebrity nudes? Just a thought.

[Adrahil]

47. The hack was wrong... AND funny..... ;) nt