WP: Don’t gloat about the Ashley Madison leak. It’s about way more than infidelity.

But the Internet soon turned its ire on other suspected Ashley Madison members, such as university professors and other “SJWs,” a derogatory acronym for “social justice warriors,” or people who speak out publicly against discrimination.


Computer security expert Graham Cluley quickly warned against such witch hunts on his blog.

“For one thing, being a member of a dating site, even a somewhat seedy one like Ashley Madison, is no evidence that you have cheated on your partner,” he wrote. “You might have joined the site years before when you were single and be shocked that they still have your details in their database, or you might have joined the site out of curiosity or for a laugh … never seriously planning to take things any further.”


Ashley Madison’s Korean Web site is shown on a computer screen in Seoul. (Lee Jin-man/AP)
You might be a journalist who joined to write about Ashley Madison, for example. Or, as some self-described Ashley Madison users have said on Reddit, you may be in an open marriage.

“But more importantly than all of that, if your e-mail address is in the Ashley Madison database it means nothing,” Cluley wrote. “The owner of that e-mail address may never have even visited the Ashley Madison site.”

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So many casting stones around here in the other thread with a sense of superiority. There's far more to it than that in the end, especially if you care about internet privacy - even if you don't believe such a thing exists.

It's all fun and games until it happens to you. Maybe OKCupid will be next and it'll tear down a whole other group of folks. Or Amazon. Or folks who buy stuff from lingerie/sex toy stores.