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Top 10 Ashley Madison Pickup Lines

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

It looks like hackers have dumped everything they stole from affair/scam/blackmail site Ashley Madison, which comes to a hefty 10 gigs of compressed data, including:

user names, first and last names, and hashed passwords for 33 million accounts, partial credit card data, street names, and phone numbers for huge numbers of users, records documenting 9.6 million transactions, and 36 million email addresses. While much of the data is sure to correspond to anonymous burner accounts, it’s a likely bet many of them belong to real people who visited the site for clandestine encounters. For what it’s worth, more than 15,000 of the e-mail addresses are hosted by US government and military servers using the .gov and .mil top-level domains.

The leak also includes PayPal accounts used by Ashley Madison executives, Windows domain credentials for employees, and a large number of proprietary internal documents. Also found: huge numbers of internal documents, memos, org charts, contracts, sales techniques, and more.

Maybe Ashley Madison should close up shop now and save itself the trouble of waiting until the lawsuits force them into bankruptcy.

In honor of their incredible incompetence, and the sleazy idiocy of their entire business model, here are the Top 10 Ashley Madison pickup lines recovered from the server:

  1. “Did you get those 27 dick pics I sent you?” — CarlosDanger@Hotmail.com
  2. “Do you need money? I can create all I need out of thin air!” — qe@federalreserve.gov
  3. “I’ve got this one weird trick that will totally rock your cooter!” — RagingStud@buzzfeed.com
  4. “Yeah, I’ve got to be willing to throw my body in the path of a bullet. My big, sweaty male body. Pretty hot, huh?” — ProtectAndSex@secretservice.gov
  5. “I’m into submission, saving the environment, and raising taxes.” — Loverboy@dnc.org
  6. “I’m into submission, saving the environment, and raising taxes.” — TotallyIndependent@mediamatters.org
  7. “You can have sex with me, or I can have your entire family liquidated. Your choice.” — SuperDuperStudMiffinVlad@kremlin.ru
  8. “Sure, Miss Wong, I’ll let you use my login!” — SecuritySupervisor@opm.gov.
  9. “Whip me like I’m an underperforming index fund!” — pumpanddump@goldmansachs.com
  10. “Hill will never know. She’s off in Dubai picking up a crate of money.” — SexySaxophone@clintonfoundation.org

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Everybody Draw Mohammed Facebook Page is Back Up

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

According to them, it wasn’t Facebook that took down the page, but one of their members taking the page down after getting their e-mail and Skype accounts hacked.

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Climate Research Center Hacking Update

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Bishop Hill has dug into the hacked and leaked documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit mentioned yesterday. The indefatigable John Hindraker at Powerline has also waded into the document morass.

Before the analysis, some caveats:

  • Hacking other people’s computers is bad, mmmkay?
  • Downloading hacked files is of dubious legal/ethical standing.
  • What has been released is purportedly only a small sample of a much larger stash of documents. What has been released has certainly been cherry-picked, and there’s no guarantee that it’s actually representative, hasn’t been altered, etc.
  • Anytime you see the inner workings of any organization, there’s going to be distasteful aspects of seeing how the sausage get made, discussion of how to play up strengths, hide or ignore weaknesses, etc. It’s naive to think that science, however lofty tried and true its means or lofty its goals, is going to be immune.

All that said, what is here is more damaging (and damning) than previously suggested. There’s still no smoking gun (i.e. “We all know global warming is fake, so stop crunching those number and join us at the big taxpayer-funded hooker and blow party tonight at Gordon Brown’s flat!”), but there are dozens, if not hundreds, of guns that are at least a little warm.

What these emails show is sustained, coordinated attempts to massage, cherry-pick, and skew data to support a consensus of anthropocentric global warming, and to downplay or ignore any evidence of global cooling over the last decade or, failing that, the significance of same.

In the meantime, they complete institutional investment of certain groups of climate scientists (and their non-scientific followers) in presenting AGW as Sacred Truth immune to criticism is a good reason for continued skepticism, and for all their data to be released. It’s also another good argument (of many) to hold off on expensive, big government boondoggles like the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” bill until the science can be verified by dispassionate observers (or, better yet, hostile critics).

I’m sure there are a lot more revelations to come.

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Climate Research Center Hacked, Data Leaked

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Among the big news making the rounds is that hackers (or crackers, as certain Slashdot pedants insist we differentiate them) have broken into the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, where all sorts of &#60gratuitous UK slang&#62boffins&#60&#47gratuitous UK slang&#62 have been pushing anthropocentric global warming, and the necessity of massive government intervention to combat same, for some time now.

Some who are (like myself) skeptical of AGW are crowing that it’s the smoking gun proving it’s all a fraud:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air also thinks they spell fraud.

My take, given that I’ve only read a small number of excerpts for a small number of documents (see below): Embarrassing and suggestive, but far short of a “smoking gun” proving it’s all fraud.

The CRU information doesn’t appear to be up at Wikileaks yet, so here’s a link to a torrent at the Pirate Bay. (Warning: Downloading hacked/leaked/stolen information from the Pirate Bay may not be legal in your jurisdiction. Or moral given your frame of ethics. Plus some off the ads veer toward the NSFW. Be sure to consult with a qualified ethicist, HR Director, or minister before downloading. Or, failing that, The Magic Eight Ball.) I haven’t downloaded it yet, less out of moral qualms than simply because my Torrent-fu is weak…

Updated: An easier download link from the folks at Slashdot.

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