Not just Ashley Madison, every dating/relationship site is full of fake female profiles. Why? Of course, to force guys to pay in order to respond to winks by these these fake females. There is an old muslim matrimony site based in UK, it is full of fake profiles, they just want to force guys to pay subscription fees in order to respond. Once guys buy subscriptions, these women don't respond.
Has this story ever been turned into a dramatic TV series or film? Or maybe a thriller, or even a comedy (based on how bad this guy is at being a criminal)?
Literally the very first text of the article is "[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.]".
You're right, I only read the first half of that sentence before I skipped to the next sentence. I need to stop trying to speed read, I'm missing important details!
I have a close friend that I work with often, that often talks about his speed reading abilities, and I kid you not, he basically misunderstands important info or concepts in basically everything he is tasked with reading.
I'd slow down.
If it's worth reading, it's worth reading. "Speed reading", to the degree it's meaningful at all, only applies to a few cases: skimming repetitive things, like a collection of news articles on a topic; stuff full of filler (e.g. business books), and doing a quick overview of a scientific paper before going back to the top and reading it carefully and slowly.
And honestly, in the first couple of cases: why read that stuff at all?
"SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on"
Hehe. Good catch. I doubt the use of "turned on" was intended to be funny here, given the source, but it sure does read like a satirical news headline.
> People committed suicide the last time this shit happened.
It sucks, but you can't save people from themselves.
Case in point: I periodically fish for people browsing Ashley Madison at work. They go onto a watchlist as candidates for blackmail (I'm moved to tears by how many of them have clearances). The presumption is that if you're doing this on a work device, you're hiding something from your spouse (which can be exploited).
The Chinese play the sextortion game; I assume their interest in Grindr was related.
What your missing is that to an outsider reading your posts, you're transparently indulging in edgy fantasies, and what you're proposing is actually a strategy to hurt people more effectively. So we tell you that what you're advocating for is gross.
You seem to have taken that as a sign we aren't smart enough to understand your point. That's not the right takeaway. If you think the accuracy of your statements is relevant to people's criticisms, you haven't understood them. If you think you have a good point that we haven't given full credence to, it's not our fault as an audience that you presented your ideas poorly.
Probably, companies should not store private information to be then stolen by hackers. But this and yours opinions don't matter as money talks. Capitalism does not care of what's right or wrong.
Unfortunately, people sometimes, too.
> the most it did was reveal that there werent enough real women in the website and many NPCs, so enterprising sex workers signed up to fill the market void, turning the site into a success and saving the company from fraud claims.
How did this work for the sex workers? At some point, they need to bring up "getting paid" and that's not going to be a comfortable conversation given the client expectations.
edit: why the downvote? In Japan it's the opposite situation.