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[Whiskeytide]

13. I agree that it's difficult to muster...

... much sympathy for the exposed users. It was foolish to expect this secret to be kept.

But I have always considered someone else's marital relationship to fall into the category of none of my business. Who am I to judge someone's reasons or rationalizations for infidelity? I really have no idea what their deal is. I would be concerned if a family member or close friend was getting hurt, but otherwise I try to butt out.

What troubles me about this data dump, however, is that I understand AM charged a fee for a user to have their information deleted from their servers. I seem to recall that this program arose a few years back from threats by divorce lawyers trying to subpoena their records, and the fight over whether or not AM had to produce them. AM probably made a lot of money on the delete for $ program (I mean, who WOULDN'T use that feature?) - but, it seems they didn't do what they were paid to do.

And while I'm sure most people used a fake username, you apparently still had to pay with an actual credit card that was probably not in your fake name - and that is the information that has been dumped. We all understand that AM kept that information because it was worth something to them - that's a pretty unique and highly valuable data base. They lied to their users, they lied to their users purely for monetary gain, and now their users have been compromised in the worst way - exactly as they had been promised they wouldn't be compromised.

So - not too heartbroken over the exposed users, but I think AM is by far the biggest piece of deuce in the bowl. JMO.