What is your opinion on the "Ashley Madison Hack"?

[Ganoncrotch]

Protendo said:

ganoncrotch said:

Do you really feel they were better off not knowing their partners were lying to them and cheating on them? ..... and paying money for the service from their households.

I think the hack really should be an eye opener to people who think that cheating could be fine if a website on the Internet tells you to do it, surely those people figured out back in the 90s that they didn't get a bigger penis, fill their bank accounts with funds from their Nigerian Royalty relatives or Get to download and print out medication for free!!!!!

Hacking in general I have issues with, for reasons. But this site and its customers needed a wake up call as to what they were doing being wrong, if you've ever heard anything from the CEO married couple who run the site... you'd want to see them getting hacked like.... a lot.

There is a difference between finding out yourself, and finding out through an alreaedy spread rumor.

If the hackers were righteous, they would have messaged the spouses individually finding them through facebook or some other means.

So you think they should have went through millions of user accounts (which I highly doubt included a next of kin contact information) and dig into other sites personal information to try to get contact information for people related to those in the site they hacked, probably requiring hacking many many many other sites in the process?

I think they way they announced it is pretty much the only avenue they had to get the info out there and to give an eyeopener to those who had considered sites like this one for cheating that the internet doesn't make you invisible, moreso the oppisite.