Interesting Links for 27-08-2015
- Why Do Colleges Give Out “Honorary” Degrees? (Spoilers: For money and publicity)
- BBC deprivation study made people change their views on the licence fee: "Being without the BBC was absolutely dreadful"
- I just back Divinity: Original Sin 2 on Kickstarter. (And I am _very_ excited about that)
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I have personally met women from the site and five of my female friends have been using it on a regular basis.
I doubt we are the only six people in the world for whom the site worked.
That said, talking to one of my female friends just now (the only one who happened to be on Facebook at the moment) and she said when she signed up she listed herself as male. This was to keep her husband/friends from finding her if they searched for women in their area. She then made it clear in her photos and profile that she was female. This worked out well for her in that it meant she wasn't spammed by dudes (since she didn't show up in their searches) but could contact dudes who would then clearly be able to see she is a woman.
That could explain some of it, though I doubt that explains all of it. The hackers had that data for a long time. If their intent was to damage Ashley Madison they had more than enough time to alter it to make the site look really bad.
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'Hi, we've hacked your Ashley madison account, we know you're cheating on your husband, send us nude pictures or we will tell him.'
It is deeply anomalous numbers though. Really strange. Does seem like almost the whole website was a giant scam.
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