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I have strong feelings on this – Despite my disagreement with someone joining a site like this, to have it made public and shame and destroy marriages and family relationships is more evil. Innocent spouses and children caught in the cross hairs and brushed aside as collateral damage. Are those engaging in adultery wrong, yes, but I deplore those who work in anonimity (the hackers in this case) somehow feeling that exposing others anonymity is somehow a noble endeavor.
I agree, SBR, that it is wrong. But…I feel less sympathy for the people who were outed. Eventually…it would have became known in the relationships, one way or another. So the main fault for the damage to spouses and children still sits with the “users” of the site. Creators of the site have a fault for trying to make money on this, hackers have a fault for their approach…but those that signed up created their family’s situation, and not likely the only time they were going to make those poor choices. I agree that it was sad to see how many people were actually on the Ashley Madison site, because that number represents a lot of people who are hurting in their relationships. I’m not going to judge them, because I don’t know everybody’s individual situation. I just find it sad. I do wonder, though, how many of those on the site were actually active users. I’ve heard of people signing up for an account on there, just because they wanted to see if they could find their spouse on their. Which is also sad, that they would have to go look. And I remember seeing a statistic on one of those articles that came out soon after the leak, which showed that many of the users listed had created an account, but had never logged back in after that. And, that a significant number of the female memberships were created from identical IP Addresses, which meant there were probably many female accounts being set up by bot-accounts which were not actual humans, but were created just to inflate the number of female accounts to make it seem like there were more women using it than actually were. So, there are a lot of interesting ‘talking points’, but I don’t put a lot of thought into any of it, without personal knowledge of any of it. I’m skeptical, by nature, so I question a lot of the information I hear about anything, including a lot of the stuff being said about the Ashley Madison hack. :think: What it all boils down to for me personally, though, is that it’s just unfortunate that their are so many struggling relationships out there that have even made that website possible (and profitable).
If I would have responded more broadly in my earlier comments, I hope I would have been as eloquent as On Own Now.
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