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SEO expert hired and fired by Ashley Madison turned on company promising revenge

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Why does Ashley Madison need to make fake profiles? Are there not enough women who want sugar relationships in the US?

edit: why the downvote? In Japan it's the opposite situation.

>why the downvote? In Japan it's the opposite situation.

Cultural differences maybe.

Isnt US country of independence and freedom, so the thought of a need of sugar daddy is crazy for them?

Not just Ashley Madison, every dating/relationship site is full of fake female profiles. Why? Of course, to force guys to pay in order to respond to winks by these these fake females. There is an old muslim matrimony site based in UK, it is full of fake profiles, they just want to force guys to pay subscription fees in order to respond. Once guys buy subscriptions, these women don't respond.

Has this story ever been turned into a dramatic TV series or film? Or maybe a thriller, or even a comedy (based on how bad this guy is at being a criminal)?

Hulu just released an Ashley Madison series. So, yes.

Literally the very first text of the article is "[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.]".

You're right, I only read the first half of that sentence before I skipped to the next sentence. I need to stop trying to speed read, I'm missing important details!

I have a close friend that I work with often, that often talks about his speed reading abilities, and I kid you not, he basically misunderstands important info or concepts in basically everything he is tasked with reading. I'd slow down.

If it's worth reading, it's worth reading. "Speed reading", to the degree it's meaningful at all, only applies to a few cases: skimming repetitive things, like a collection of news articles on a topic; stuff full of filler (e.g. business books), and doing a quick overview of a scientific paper before going back to the top and reading it carefully and slowly.

And honestly, in the first couple of cases: why read that stuff at all?

The title of this is a good example of a garden path sentence.

"SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on"

Hehe. Good catch. I doubt the use of "turned on" was intended to be funny here, given the source, but it sure does read like a satirical news headline.

> It is evident that Harrison was Biderman’s top suspect immediately after the breach became public

Would an SEO expert really be given access to internal tools necessary to pull of this data breach?

It’s been my experience that without regulatory heat it takes a massive, embarrassing mistake to get traction on internal tool lockdowns and security.

Who knew krebsonsecurity wrote so much fluff. Like get to the point already bro.

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