HeliX Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 BBC reporting that two people have committed suicide as a result of this leaked data. funny how your conscience will let you cheat in the first place but not let you live with yourself if you're found out. @helix, if anyone signed up for any of the 'innocent' reasons you list then they should have clean consciences?? I would have expected signing someone else up wouldn't be too easy as most sites require a confirmation by email and to sign up a mate you'd need to have access to their email accounts. no doubt quite a few 'good friends' are taking a hit for cheating mates on this score. Having a clean conscience doesn't do you much good when a potential employer finds your name on the list does it? Or when it gets passed round the pubs, as it will. This leak burned a lot of innocent people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 BBC reporting that two people have committed suicide as a result of this leaked data. funny how your conscience will let you cheat in the first place but not let you live with yourself if you're found out. @helix, if anyone signed up for any of the 'innocent' reasons you list then they should have clean consciences?? I would have expected signing someone else up wouldn't be too easy as most sites require a confirmation by email and to sign up a mate you'd need to have access to their email accounts. no doubt quite a few 'good friends' are taking a hit for cheating mates on this score. Having a clean conscience doesn't do you much good when a potential employer finds your name on the list does it? Or when it gets passed round the pubs, as it will. This leak burned a lot of innocent people. At least two suicides in the USA already apparently citing the leak as the reason why they have taken their own life. Pathetic attempt at 'morality' by the hackers. This largely seems to be about extorting money from the site owners, or taking out a rival business and destroying its entire user base. There's little 'moral' about anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 WTF? People actually killed themselves because their name was on a cheating site? No way, that is absolutely mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 WTF? People actually killed themselves because their name was on a cheating site? No way, that is absolutely mad. Yes, it was Canada not the USA http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34044506 Some people clearly find the social consequences of being exposed unbearable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Yes, and how do the 'victims' feel with the whole world knowing? It is shameful, and a sad reflection of the 'we must know' culture we have. No, the whole world doesn't need to know, even if there is something to know, It is just prurient scuttlebutt. The people who do know what they have been up to should answer their own conscience, not the baying internet masses, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Yes, and how do the 'victims' feel with the whole world knowing? It is shameful, and a sad reflection of the 'we must know' culture we have. No, the whole world doesn't need to know, even if there is something to know, It is just prurient scuttlebutt. The people who do know what they have been up to should answer their own conscience, not the baying internet masses, We haven't actually moved on from the days of the stocks and public executions. Only now they're carried out by sad little assholes on Twitter who delight in this sort of thing. If someone signs up to a site like that it's between them and (when found out) their partner - it's not really anyone else's business. That said some senior MP or government official shagging round on a site like that might be fair game (if they are espousing family values in their campaign or are a Sunday School Teacher etc). But in these times (unlike the tomato throwers who visited the stocks) the exposers get to sit in the shadows unexposed. The Canada response was right. The site owners put up $500,000 to anyone who could help to find and expose the people who have done this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 But even if there is a government member in there, what does that really mean? Yes, you would doubt any protestations about family values etc especially if they are MHKs rather than civil servants. I would be more concerned about misuse of internet access during work hours than any intended (and it would seem, unfulfilled) dalliances. The best quote from the Troy site above is that trying to remove yourself from the internet is like trying to remove your piss from a swimming pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 The best quote from the Troy site above is that trying to remove yourself from the internet is like trying to remove your piss from a swimming pool. Most of social media and the World Wide Web is for idiots. You only have to look at Dave Pownalls comments on Mannanans Review, or the Amy Burns threads to see why the World Wide Web is a bad idea. Why people these days feel compelled to advertise how grossly stupid they are to thousands or even millions of people perplexes me. Then they complain when others take the piss out of them! Then other have affairs via online sites and even sign up using their own email address. FFS! Who is stupid enough to do that? The whole thing has got out of control. It also highlights how insecure the web is - you might think you're anonymous but that's rarely the case as this exposure is now showing. The internet is now so all encompassing that these things are inevitable and they only way to avoid potential embarrassment is not to use online services or act like a tit on social media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 But even if there is a government member in there, what does that really mean? Yes, you would doubt any protestations about family values etc especially if they are MHKs rather than civil servants. I would be more concerned about misuse of internet access during work hours than any intended (and it would seem, unfulfilled) dalliances. It seems to depend on your nationality, or rather how these things are viewed in a sort of "cultural" way. In the US of A if a president like Clinton is found to have been having an "inappropriate" relationship with an intern it's his turn in the barrel. However in the UK an ugly politician gets cheered when he's found to have been bonking in his teams' colours (Mellor). But looked down on if he's been found bonking a bit of a mare (Major/Curry) In French politics having a mistress is pretty much mandatory. If you're not playing the field there's something suspiciously wrong with you. In Italian politics, well, La Cicciolina and Berlusconi make it clear that anything goes. To wit Berlusconi being overheard describing Merkel as "an unf~ckable lardarse" is considered as merely a tactical blunder rather than a career limiting move. The being overheard bit that is, not what he actually said.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Yes, we all know about public outing of affairs by public figures and how it is received. That is not the point, really. The point is smattering membership of a dodgy site on the internet and the collateral damage, while claiming the moral highground. Let's face it, despite our best efforts, the ordinary person is morally frail, vulnerable and foolish. That is what we are made of. We know we should be better, but that isn't likely, so the important thing for the ordinary person is to limit hurt. That is why this whole stuff about nothing is cruel and distasteful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The MHK Took My Baby Away Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 But our "honourable" politicians and government executives think they're a cut above us ordinary people, so much so that they feel qualified to rule over us and tell us how to live our ordinary lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Perhaps because we elected them? I have a shiver of recognition; please don't let it be so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The MHK Took My Baby Away Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I was just making a point. I personally think outing large numbers of people is a pathetic thing to do so I do agree with your previous post. People should mind their own business and stop meddling in other people's affairs, no pun intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmanx Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 WTF? People actually killed themselves because their name was on a cheating site? No way, that is absolutely mad. Yes, it was Canada not the USA http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34044506 Some people clearly find the social consequences of being exposed unbearable. 1 Canadian and 1 Texan in the Police force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 I have a shiver of recognition; please don't let it be so. Weak bladder ...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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