The "Outed on Ashley Madison" Thread

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by techweenie

Apparently Duggar paid the premium for "a guaranteed affair." Boy howdy.

Huh. When I worked in a sporting goods store we used to offer guaranteed fishing licenses for an extra $5. Never sold a one. I guess our dumb farmers where smarter than Duggar.

[VincentVega]

Well we looked at his logs (we log everything) and I'm not sure I want to continue this conversation with him in the morning. In fact if he presses my guys I'll probably have to take what we have to his HR rep.

I hope he decides to let sleeping dogs lie.

Good stuff. Some folks have no idea how the most basic IT security/networking actually works. I'm sure it wasnt him, someone gained control of his machine. Yeah, they beat all of your security, left no trace, authenticated correctly and he didnt know anything was going on. Yeah, thats it.

[Bill Douglas]

33M accounts (source BBC). Who would have thought

[sc_rufctr]

Two people have "necked" themselves over this.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34044506

[reachme]

Scott R you may be missing the point.
The guy is getting squeezed and looking for a way out.
More likely he will point the finger to your team. The ones with his account information, with the logs to incriminate him, the people holding all the keys. He will double down and create reasonable doubt that someone used him as a scapegoat.

You need to make sure you can prove a member of your team could not possibly use his account or modify the logs because you have a big target on your head. Much harder than him creating doubt that you did.

[Scott R]

Originally Posted by reachme

Scott R you may be missing the point.
The guy is getting squeezed and looking for a way out.
More likely he will point the finger to your team. The ones with his account information, with the logs to incriminate him, the people holding all the keys. He will double down and create reasonable doubt that someone used him as a scapegoat.

You need to make sure you can prove a member of your team could not possibly use his account or modify the logs because you have a big target on your head. Much harder than him creating doubt that you did.

He can't escape Proofpoint, we turned over everything this morning to HR and legal as I don't want to deal with him any longer. Let's just say what we found is beyond any reasonable doubt.

He wanted us to prove his innocence, but I don't think he had any idea as to the level of monitoring we bound to by the Fed.

[M.D. Holloway]

I would be very interesting if all your web history was suddenly made public. You could deny it, admit it or ignore it. There are no secrets any more...

[widebody911]

[aigel]

This is going to be huge. Users better hope there isn't going to be an easily searchable database coming out.

I heard on BBC news that Saudi Arabia had 1200 addresses on the service. A country where infidelity is punishable with death.

More on the impact:

Human cost of Ashley Madison hack is astronomical - Business Insider

So, how many of you have checked your spouses address(es)?

G

[john70t]

Originally Posted by VincentVega

Good stuff. Some folks have no idea how the most basic IT security/networking actually works. I'm sure it wasnt him, someone gained control of his machine. Yeah, they beat all of your security, left no trace, authenticated correctly and he didnt know anything was going on. Yeah, thats it.

Ever hear of Stuxnet? That was the old version and I'm sure it's on the black market for a price.
Anything made by mankind can be unmade, given the desire.

I don't feel any sympathy for someone using their freaking work computer to do business with a company centered around extramarital sex affairs, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing happens.

There is also this self-destructing email. Now YOU decide what they can do with your mail!.

I may have experienced that from another scumbag owner who wrote that he'd use the condo association general funds to personally sue me into oblivion for libel/slander. This was after I pointed out the records indicated his personal company had not paid dues for years and years and there was another $25K+ in direct personal "self-payments" with no explanation.
Grand larceny at the felonious level was indicated.
The second time I opened the email to print it there was "an error" and it vanished like magic.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

I would be very interesting if all your web history was suddenly made public. You could deny it, admit it or ignore it. There are no secrets any more...

I would deny it. I don't know any of you arseholes. Musta been the kid detailing my cars got into Pelican somehow ...

[Scott R]

There is a nearly untapped market for cleansing internet reputations. A few claim they can, but really can't. So if you could find some way, the cash would just roll right in.

[GWN7]

If you play you pay.......

Several years ago when this internet thing was just beginning a global company that has plants around the world sent out a memo stating any employee using a company computer for any illegal or immoral (porn) purposes would be fired. Then they waited a couple months and a big shot from headquarters showed up. He had two huge security guards with him. They walked up to a employee at each plant and said in a loud voice "you are fired for viewing porn on a company computer." Handed him a cardboard box to pack is personal stuff in and walked him off the property.

They supposedly did this at each plant around the globe. The message was clear and heard well.

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by aigel

Users better hope there isn't going to be an easily searchable database coming out.

Gimme a linux box with MySQL and a good internet connection and I could knock that out in about 3 hours.

[reverie]

I think the modern "personals" websites make it easy to cheat.

On an unrelated note, businesses such as Cherry Blossoms have been around for years. By now, there are probably websites for people looking for people from all over the world. But what the world really needs is more forums like PPOT. Yeah, that's the ticket...

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[stomachmonkey]

This Duggar guy is an endless fountain of hypocrisy.

Of course the following is only "alleged".

Porn star claims Josh Duggar paid her for sex while wife was pregnant

[gtc]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

You guys realize that these "tools" to check the database could very likely be nothing more than honey pots to collect email addresses for spammers?

You'd think the database with millions of addresses would occupy them for a while...

[fintstone]

I am not sure I understand. Reportedly, AM never verified email addresses, etc. It seems like anyone could sign you up. Does this released info also containing credit card records, etc.?

I had a friend who lost his gov't civilian job with the AF for looking at porn on his computer (2nd offense...was punished the first time but didn't learn). They were monitoring every site he visited after the first time.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by gtc

You'd think the database with millions of addresses would occupy them for a while...

If they have the database.

Most likely anyone in that business has access to it.

But FWIW you can tell someone way more than you want them to know about you simply by visiting their page.

[dtw]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Gimme a linux box with MySQL and a good internet connection and I could knock that out in about 3 hours.

Hopefully this will be out there soon. I'd like to do a search like *@mycompanydomain.com and see the results.

Heard on the radio this morning that there are only three zip codes in the US that don't have AM members.