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In two articles penned for IBTimes UK, John McAfee, founder and former CEO of cyber security firm McAfee, made a pretty solid case in which he attributed the Ashely Madison hack to one of the company's employee, and more precisely to a "female" worker. John McAfee: Ashley Madison Hack Is an Inside Job http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-mcafee-ashley-madison-hack-death-knell-secrets-1511980 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-mcafee-ashley-madison-database-stolen-by-lone-female-who-worked-avid-life-media-1516833

Life sometimes throws us a curve ball and we have to cancel but there are some real gentlemen here who realize the work you go though to get ready to spend your time with us and how you can't immediately book someone else to take our place, so if we have to cancel we still donate in full, at least I do (and I know there are others that feel the same way) on those very rare occasions. We also greatly respect what you do for us and treat you with the respect and admiration you deserve. Very sorry to hear you have encountered a few men that are still boys and haven't grown up yet. Hopefully as time goes on you will find regular clients who are more worthy of your time.

Actually, if I have to place blame then it must go to the people that work in the security department at Ashley Madison and it's arrogant CEO. Although they had a disclaimer that the lawyers put in the fine print, all their advertising and promotion would lead people to believe that their secret was safe and they had to know that they were a highly desirable target. I can't blame humans for being human and having human frailties. I certainly don't blame the people here for being here either (do you?) but I'm quite certain that a lot of them are keeping secrets which, if exposed, would cause them damage. Fortunately there is a lot less danger of that happening here, or rather there is a lot less potential for the same kind of consequences as the same kind of information just isn't there even if it was leaked.

Don't worry, there is a $500,000 reward being offered. Some one, somewhere knows who they are (hackers always brag of their success) and that reward is going to be pretty tempting, I remain hopeful it will produce results soon and they will be behind bars shortly, the act of turning them in and collecting the reward is probably already in progress; likely the delay is the informant trying to figure out how to do it, collect the reward and still remain anonymous. Unfortunately there is no undoing the damage they have done to so many people's lives, in particular I am most concerned with the children of divorced parents and given the conversations I had with a few of my friends and associates who were exposed by this, I can see how this could push someone over the edge to consider suicide. I can't judge anyone that has been exposed by this; I can only make the observation that this world of professional companionship is still very poorly understood by so many that have never been able to explore it but it is also very preferable to a real romantic relationship with all the hassles and the drama that comes with it. When my wife first suggested I "get a girlfriend" I did eventually do that for a while but then I realized that I was in real danger of actually hurting someone (as I love my disabled wife and would never want to leave her) so I found a better way and ended up here.

So they were a dummies and used an identifiable account for cerb/lyla, perhaps even their employer provided email account, lots of people on Ashley Madison did so they are not alone in being temporarily dumb. Instead of closing your account, just set up a disposable one that can't be linked to you and then change your email address in your profile. If the contents of this site have already been hacked and are out in the wild already, closing your account isn't going to help you. If it gets hacked in the future they will just get the disposable address. If they are worried about some "history" of the previous email address being kept around, well, it's already being kept around so closing the account isn't likely to be of much help. Probably a good idea to take a look though all those PMs that just tend to build up in your inbox and make sure there is nothing identifiable in there also.

I'm quite certain that if the ladies I see on a regular basis... no that won't work - well let's put it another way, if their services were limited to only what some outsiders might expect, I really think I wouldn't bother.

We knew this would happen, I think it's important to keep in mind however that if we snapshot any group of 33 million people, statistically a few of them are going to commit suicide in the next week or so (for one reason or another). The relationship can only be directly drawn if someone leaves a note saying that is why they did it. Doubtless, sooner or later that will happen also. I've been reading social media posts from truly desperate people that have been outed by this leak. They can't sleep, eat or talk to their spouse. These people are definitely very disturbed to have their privacy violated in this way. Other details that have emerged from the leak that are interesting are covered here: How Ashley Madison says it kept Prostitutes off the site Also the $500K Bounty for Hackers is an interesting development and might even produce results and bring these criminals to justice.

Really sorry to hear of your horrible experience. In the beginning (after my wife gave me permission and even encouragement), I would pay way too much to keep the company of fully vetted ladies or I would have these sorts of problems and experiences. Then I discovered this place where I could quickly read a long list of recommendations and never had any trouble again. The ladies here with good reputations never let you down and you never have to deal with any drama.

You might think so but apparently not. Most of the sites that have now popped up to make it easy for people to search this data have received DMCA take down notices and most have complied. Earlier in the week I was in possession of it at the request of people who needed to know how much exposure they had and didn't have the required skills to be able to locate it and search it. I could easily argue that the personal data belonged to these people that asked me to retrieve it for them, the other millions of records that necessarily came with it being just collateral. Having helped them in the early days of this fiasco, I know no good will come of keeping it around so am I still in possession of stolen goods - no. Was I at some point? That's very debatable, when you steal something you typically deprive the rightful owner of it or in the case of copyright material like a movie you deprive them of revenue they get from it (neither case applies here) but there are now hundreds of thousands of copies of this data out there. The data doesn't belong to me and I have no right to be in possession of it unless asked to by someone that does own it (and I was), and I feel we do own our own personal information. If possessing this information and disclosing it is a crime then a lot of news agencies that outed Josh Duggar are in trouble :)

I agree, ALM deserves what they get, not just for taking money and then not doing anything in return for it but for outright deceit in multiple ways. One former ALM employee has come forward and admitted her job was to create fake female profiles as it has been reported that 95% of the membership were male. While I haven't bothered to do a count, I have been through the transaction data when requested to do so by panicked friends and associates and I have noticed a lot of female names on those credit card transactions so I think that 95% number may be an exaggeration, there were a lot of lonely wives using the service, a lot more than 5% of the membership from what I have seen (unless the husbands were charging it to their wife's credit card -- not likely!). While ALM and by extension it's CEO Noel Biderman are evil, this isn't the way to take them down - by turning millions of people's lives upside down, especially the children of these soon to be broken families don't deserve this grief. Aside from these folks being in trouble with their spouse, a good number will also be in trouble with their employer. Of my five "friends and associates" who have contacted me for help (and the only help I could give them was to let them know the full depth and breadth of the information about them that is now public), it's 100% hit rate. Much to their dismay I was able to email them a list of all their credit card transactions, the dates and the amounts and of course they already know their home address but it is there and must be accurate for the credit card transaction to be successfully processed. Fortunately I won't have to have anything further to do with this now as a number of easy to use sites have now appeared to aid people who don't have the computer skills to search raw database files. I don't mean this was a fortunate development as no good will come of it, just fortunate that I don't have to have anything more to do with dealing with this mess. The 3rd data dump is apparently an uncorrupt version of Noel Biderman's email (it was in the second dump that contained the source code for the web site but was unintentionally corrupted). While it is still being distributed and will take the journalists a long time to read, here is hoping that there is something in the 17.9 GBs (compressed) of email that will land him in jail. I read another report that the hackers obtained full access to the servers using a VPN connection and the complex password "Pass1234", but who knows how accurate that report is.

"Bartender, put that in a dirty glass!"

That's my main problem with this disclosure. It doesn't seem to be motivated by money or morals, so I'm left to conclude it is just an act of the most obscene type of vandalism. While every news outlet seems careful to point out that Ashley Madison does not send verification emails to ensure the supplied email address is valid (or owned by the person supplying it), all the credit card transactions including the date of the transaction, the persons real name, home address (or rather the billing address for the credit card), last 4 digits of the credit card number, the authorization number and the amount of each transaction is there - that can't be explained away by someone setting up a bogus account using your email address. I'm also shocked by the reaction on social media, it seems everyone not affected by this has a very poor judgemental attitude (e.g. serves them right, looks good on them, etc.). Not only am I very disappointed by this, it has definitely lowered my opinion of the human race overall. These are real people and some of them will end up divorced as a result of this and some of them have children that will be forever adversely affected by their parents divorce. I don't think anyone can ever come up with a valid reason why someone could be "justified" in adversely affecting the lives of so many people they don't even know. Quite simply what other people do is not our business and not for us to judge what they do. I do however find I have no problem passing judgement on the vandals behind this for the irreparable harm and damage they have done.

Yeah, I have a Gmail filter for all mail from lyla.com -> Never send to spam but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Perhaps Egotistical Giraffe or the Ferret Cannon is messing with me :)

No, the notifications to my gmail account has long since stopped getting through again. I find it is a very useful feature; if someone sends me a PM it could literally be days (sometimes weeks) before I log in and get the message if I don't know about it. Technically, you will need to deliver the mail yourself using full DMARC features (matching reverse DNS, DKIM and SPF) to overcome this problem once and for all or use a service like smtp.com. Relaying though Gmail is not workable as they limit the number of messages you can send per day. One large site I support has hundreds of users on Google for business but they still need their own email server just for outgoing mass mailings (like electronic paystubs, etc.).

Then what you are saying is you want a second / different number for inbound calls? You can get that from les.net for $1.99/month and forward it to your cell phone for $0.015/minute. While their interface isn't the most friendly, I'm sure they would set that up for you if you ran into trouble, you can just email them and they would do whatever you needed. Other interesting things about this kind of service: The number can be in any city (as the $0.015 already covers the cost of North America wide long distance) and any SMS messages sent to it can be redirected to send an email. I suppose some ladies might find it useful to have a local number in each city they visit as their clients might not want the long distance call on their billing and and of course they also offer toll-free numbers for $2.50/month and $0.04 minute; and no such thing as a blocked call to a toll free number, if it's your dime you get to see who is calling you. The calls can terminate anywhere, including being forward to your cell phone or of course many VoIP programs when connected to the Internet. I know it may sound crazy to some but "Every paid LES.NET account receives a FREE 24 Channel DID!" so yeah, I have 24 SIP channels (basically phone lines) coming into my home to my own phone system (and conference bridge) for $1.99.month. Now if I could only communicate my plans and requests for appointments to the lady using secure PGP encryption and thank her with Bitcoin :) Dream on BRM!

I would never expect someone to spend time away from their normal routine at my request for free. You seem to be missing the point of what I have been trying to say and it could well be I'm not articulating my thoughts well enough (the fault in that regard could well be mine) and taking anything I say in the worst possible way. I do profusely apologize if you thought I was trying to be "condescending", that was never my intention, I have always had the utmost respect for your opinions, even these ones I don't completely agree with are well considered in the majority of cases. Perhaps when I said you had never had such a relationship you found that "condescending"? I didn't mean it that way, I only meant that as you deny such a relationship could exist you obviously couldn't have had such a relationship. Guilty of stating the obvious in the interest of clarity but not meant to be "condescending", promise! One thing is clear, you seem to have to have the last word and we agree to disagree so please reply to this thread (and I won't) so you can have the last word :)

I accept the fact that you don't believe a genuine "professional" NSA friendship can exist, not having experienced one yourself. I know I could prove you wrong (at least in my case) by citing a number of specific examples that can't be explained away as very good acting but then that would be telling :) Your generalizations are probably dead on but I assure you I'm under no illusions or kidding myself. So we shall have to agree to disagree and leave it at that.

I can't imagine how you would prosecute them. All they need to accept bitcoin payment is a QR code, or a hundred QR codes, each transaction can go to a different address but end up in the same place :) It's very hard to trace the transaction or prove that the transaction occurred (between specific parties if you are not one of them). I seriously doubt it can be controlled like that as there is no central authority with bitcoin, if you have some you can do whatever you like with it whenever you like and no one can stop you. If I want to send conventional money to someone I am limited to $10,000 or FINTRAC gets involved and they tell the CRA and it gets very messy. I can send millions of dollars worth of bitcoin to anyone, anywhere in the world in less than a second, no one can stop me, no one can question the transaction, it's no one's business except between me and the party that receives the payment and no one knows, cares or can find out who we are or why we exchanged some bitcoin. Of course I would convert them to something else before that happened, perhaps even Titcoin - The Official Cryptocurrency of the Porn Industry Joking of course - I have very little interest in pornography :) Go here: Kitco Bitcoin USD Chart and select the "ALL" chart, you will note that after the initial volatility and run up to over $1000, the price of bitcoin has become quite more stable (almost an ever slowly increasing over time flat line). Currently much more stable and reliable then most any main stream currency you might choose to compare it too so your volatility argument is no longer valid, at least not right now. Likely it will continue to increase in value as interest (and demand for) bitcoin increases but no one can say what the future holds for sure. One more advantage: It simply can't be forged. I wonder how many ladies have gotten burned by someone passing them some counterfeit American cash?

Yes, In Ontario women won the right to go topless if they choose to. See Women's topless court victory 20 years later In 1991, Jacob was found guilty of one count of committing an indecent act and fined $75. During her court case, she argued that women's breasts are just fat tissue, not unlike men's. But in his ruling, the judge said a woman's breast is "part of the female body that is sexually stimulating to men both by sight and touch," and should not be uncovered in public. In 1996, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned Jacob's conviction, saying "there was nothing degrading or dehumanizing in what the appellant did. The scope of her activity was limited and was entirely non-commercial. No one who was offended was forced to continue looking at her." Moreover, the court ruled that Jacob did not exceed "the community standard of tolerance when all of the relevant circumstances are taken into account." The court did not rule on the constitutionality of the issue, though Jacob's lawyer had argued that her client had the same constitutional right to go topless as men did.

Good point about the iMessage vulnerability. An associate of mine, well his daughter broke her iPhone screen and got a new phone and the mother had the broken one in her purse for emergencies. Turns out the daughter planned an underage drinking party with all her underage friends over iMessage and the mother got to see all the plans on the broken screen phone. Of course that's a mistake an underage teen would make, kind if the equivalent of an adult getting an email confirming all the details and leaving it open on the screen while he runs to the corner store. But some people don't understand technology and with iMessage, any phone logged into your account with the same credentials is going to be a clone phone :)

Good heavens RG, have you no concern for the environment or your carbon footprint! :) Actually I have zero faith in the secret spy's ability (or discipline) to throw a shiny new burner phone away that still has some airtime left on it, rather most would just keep it for future use, seems innocent enough at the time but could be fatal.

I'm sure your generalizations are generally correct across the board and I've always respected your opinions and immense knowledge of this industry. That being said, when I do take a lady away from her normal work in the great white frozen north we call Canada to a much warmer tropical climate in the dead of winter I always take the philosophy that it is better to give than to receive. At least in my case, be it a relaxing day horse back ridding in the jungle with very competent and trusted private guides or travelling around in a helicopter (with a very experienced pilot), or simply sunning on a beach lounger I find it hard to imagine she sees it as "work" and if any of these activities are first time experiences for her and I get to experience them through her eyes and amazement (that would clearly be boring to me if I was alone) I find myself enriched by the experience perhaps more than her :) While it may be hard for you to believe, I even leave the usual activity one might expect to be occurring between a gentleman and his paid companion entirely up to her to initiate and also make it clear to her that it is to be her vacation as much as it is mine and we do whatever activities she would like to do (as I have been fortunate enough to have done it all before).

I have to wonder if even Donald Trump could do more damage than those that did get elected. George Bush got elected even though he didn't get the most votes.

I saw a documentary not so long ago where a number of ladies were making a living at it by being virtual companions (wish I could remember the name of it). No sexual undertones or nudity involved at all, just a virtual companion to chat with via video feed for an hour or so each day. Each lady had several regular virtual boyfriends. Might seem crazy but I do recall a few times in my life when I wished that my girlfriend had an off switch :)

Actually it was their ancestors that were wiped out. The Spaniards, who first arrived in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola in 1492, and later in Puerto Rico, did not bring women in the first expeditions. They took Taíno women for their common-law wives, resulting in mestizo children. Sexual violence in Haiti with the Taíno women by the Spanish was also common. Scholars suggest there was substantial mestizaje (racial and cultural mixing) in Cuba, as well, and several Indian pueblos survived into the 19th century. The Taíno became extinct as a culture following settlement by Spanish colonists.