<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">It is still wrong and a long bow for anybody to conclude much by just looking at a list of user accounts. I’ll agree that their security model is probably lousy but so would be the ethics of following the demands of any extortion threat.&nbsp;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Violence against&nbsp;doctors&nbsp;is also a growing concern. From memory, a US based group hacked a server in the 1990’s to secure and publish the personal details about medical staff. The data was pulled off the web but only after innocent people were killed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards Roland</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Aug 2015, at 11:15 am, Mark &lt;<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">Another privacy disaster to entertain you good folk...</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" class="">"The notorious site where married people seek extramarital liaisons was the target of a major hack, and this week the hackers dumped some of the data supposedly stolen from the site. For users, the fallout doesn’t look good."</font><br clear="all" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">​Read more...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-hack-exposes-wait-lousy-business/" class="">www.wired.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-hack-exposes-wait-lousy-business/</a>​</div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>--&nbsp;<div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark Kelly</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&amp;id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZNy1KTlhHdGVINWc&amp;revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZclhYdUpxelZmcmx3amRrYjM1d01mdlJ5WURNPQ" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank" class="">mark@vceit.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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