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title = "The Puritanical Glee Over the Ashley Madison Hack"
lang = "en"

[taxonomies]
tags = ["moralism", "puritanism", "ashley madison"]
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From [The Intercept][1]:

> That the cheating scoundrels of Ashley Madison got what they deserved was a widespread sentiment yesterday. Despite how common both infidelity and online pornography are, tweets expressing moralistic glee were legion. Websites were created to enable easy searches of the hacked data by email address. An Australian radio station offered to tell listeners on air if their spouse’s names appeared in the data base, and informed one horrified woman caller that her husband did.

This is one leak we could live without. I agree it's important to expose lacking privacy/security in sites that claims more than they can deliver. Especially when charging for something that clearly has not been done. However, exposing private information about ordinary people is not the way to do this.

This is just moralistic self righteusness in a digital equivalent to the inquisition. I'm not impressed.

[1]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/20/puritanical-glee-ashley-madison-hack/
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title = "The Puritanical Glee Over the Ashley Madison Hack"
lang = "en"

[taxonomies]
tags = ["moralism", "puritanism", "ashley madison"]
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From [The Intercept][1]:

> That the cheating scoundrels of Ashley Madison got what they deserved was a widespread sentiment yesterday. Despite how common both infidelity and online pornography are, tweets expressing moralistic glee were legion. Websites were created to enable easy searches of the hacked data by email address. An Australian radio station offered to tell listeners on air if their spouse’s names appeared in the data base, and informed one horrified woman caller that her husband did.

This is one leak we could live without. I agree it's important to expose lacking privacy/security in sites that claims more than they can deliver. Especially when charging for something that clearly has not been done. However, exposing private information about ordinary people is not the way to do this.

This is just moralistic self righteusness in a digital equivalent to the inquisition. I'm not impressed.

[1]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/20/puritanical-glee-ashley-madison-hack/