Posted on 08/27/2015 7:23:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women’s profiles were fake. Later, this number got blown up in news stories that asserted “90-95%” of them were fake, though nobody put forth any evidence for such an enormous number. So I downloaded the data and analyzed it to find out how many actual women were using Ashley Madison, and who they were.
What I discovered was that the world of Ashley Madison was a far more dystopian place than anyone had realized. This isn’t a debauched wonderland of men cheating on their wives. It isn’t even a sadscape of 31 million men competing to attract those 5.5 million women in the database. Instead, it’s like a science fictional future where every woman on Earth is dead, and some Dilbert-like engineer has replaced them with badly-designed robots.
Those millions of Ashley Madison men were paying to hook up with women who appeared to have created profiles and then simply disappeared. Were they cobbled together by bots and bored admins, or just user debris? Whatever the answer, the more I examined those 5.5 million female profiles, the more obvious it became that none of them had ever talked to men on the site, or even used the site at all after creating a profile. Actually, scratch that. As I’ll explain below, there’s a good chance that about 12,000 of the profiles out of millions belonged to actual, real women who were active users of Ashley Madison.
When you look at the evidence, it’s hard to deny that the overwhelming majority of men using Ashley Madison weren’t having affairs. They were paying for a fantasy.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
So, basically Ashley Madison was a honey pot designed to set men up for black mail?
Kind of like all the beautiful russian women who saw my internet profile and want to throw themselves at me. Awesome photo included.
Set up to extract from gullible men their money. The "honey pot for blackmail" just turned out to be a bonus.
Sounds like it.
It does make sense. If a woman wants to cheat all she has to do is decide on which man she is going to cheat with. Men aren’t exactly a picky lot and have little self control.
I think it was more of a scam to separate horny men from their money. Pretty well executed, it seems, too. The Gizmodo article is quite enlightening about the whole operation.
This article is actually quite good news in a way because women weren’t participating. Maybe society isn’t as far gone as everybody thinks.
I saw one name of someone I know that is a reasonably bright guy. He spent over $1000. Others I knew were spending over $500 - $600.
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew it
I even thought that it was a great way to make a fortune- charge a bunch of idiots and do nothing but put fake ads
so wait... they have the emails of members AND they have the amount of money they spent???
I heard on the radio this a.m. that even in lieu of the hack, 2 million “new” accounts had been opened.
They are participating, but with the maintenance guy that drives a motorcyle, not with anonymous internet users.
The phrase you can’t fix stupid comes to mind.
So all of the hacked users who were exposed will now be suing the company for fraud?
So true. If it squats to pee, someone is on it.
They were the cover story on Business Week 2 1/2 years ago. The article claimed they were tech’s hottest IPO at the time.
Awesome uncle in the Russian mafia included at no charge
NO one got laid ?
Historically women usually aren’t the ones having to pay to have sex...
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