The most hilarious revelation about the Ashley Madison hack yet
Gizmodo took a look at female profiles on the site and discovered that most of them were never used at all after they were created. In fact, the site estimates that roughly 12,000 of the 5.5 million registered female accounts are actually used by women on a regular basis. Gizmodo used a lot of smart detective work to come up with this estimate, including looking at IP addresses that created a suspiciously large number of women’s profiles.
But here’s the really amazing thing: When Gizmodo went to see how many Ashley Madison users checked messages they’d received from other users, the website found a hilarious disparity that showed the ratio of men checking messages to women checking messages was 13,585 : 1. Seriously.
“Overall, the picture is grim indeed. Out of 5.5 million female accounts, roughly zero percent had ever shown any kind of activity at all, after the day they were created,” Gizmodo writes. “The men’s accounts tell a story of lively engagement with the site, with over 20 million men hopefully looking at their inboxes, and over 10 million of them initiating chats. The women’s accounts show so little activity that they might as well not be there.”
So while this particular article finds this 'funny', as in humorous, my question, my take is "did this website take a bunch of guy's money and actually offer NOTHING in return?"
That is the essence of AWESOME capitalism: people give you money for something and they think they are actually getting something but they aren't! It's BRILLIANT!
That's what it is appearing like, in the proverbial Big Picture.
And THAT would be pretty funny, if it did not seem criminally fraudulent.
Speaking of criminality....
Krebs on Security has looked through some leaked emails from Avid Life execs and has found that they discussed potentially hacking into rival adult dating website Nerve.com and stealing their user information. You really cannot make this stuff up.
“They did a very lousy job building their platform. I got their entire user base, Ashley Madison CTO Raja Bhatia told Avid Life CEO Noel Biderman in one email. “Also, I can turn any non paying user into a paying user, vice versa, compose messages between users, check unread stats, etc.”
Glad I don't work for AshleyMadison.