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Anonymous wrote:I'm a local TV producer...
I can't imagine. And the question of whether to tell or not tell a friend, neighbor or family member has to be agonizing.
Would anyone be interested in sharing your experience of searching a name and finding someone you know? Do you think this breach was a good or bad thing?
Many thanks.
BAD. Especially devastating also for people on the list who are from Muslim countries who were on there to find homosexual partners. Saudi Arabia is already staring to round up gay people from the info. Homosexuality there and in many other countries is death. Gays who's names were in the list are already starting to flee Saudi Arabia.
I never thought of that. How awful. Do you know of anyone who left and came here?
The Saudi Arabian government is using the recently leaked data from Ashley Madison to track down homosexuals in their country. As homosexuality is a crime, punishable by death, in Saudi Arabia the leak is estimated to result in the death of hundreds if not thousands of gay people in Saudi Arabia.
Is this for real? Is there a better source then "libel news, apocryphal news?"
Tuesday night, hackers leaked a dump of private information on more than 33 million Ashley Madison profiles, including full names, phone numbers, payment details, and checked-off sexual desires and orientation. A source in the Saudi Arabian government has revealed that this information is now being used to track down and imprison homosexuals as well as persons with “adulterous or immoral sexual fantasies”. Many of these crimes are punishable by death, and it is feared that this leak might result in an as of yet unseen amount of executions. A homosexual man has described how he decided to run away as soon as he heard about the leak:
“The reason I decided to use the dating site [Ashley Madison, sic] was because of their focus on anonymity. My country does not tolerate my sexual orientation, so I was happy when I found a safe place to have a profile and look for other men. When I heard about the possible leak in the news I decided to flee the country immediately: I have no doubt in my heart that the information in my profile would lead to me being killed”.
http://www.libel.news/ashley-madison-leak-used-by-saudi-arabia-to-imprison-gays/