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ARTICLE · 09 SEPTEMBER 2015

Online Adultery Leads To Cyber Warfare?

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People who go online likely consider the risks involved with using the Internet. People who contemplate extra-martial affairs probably consider the risks of those activities, too.

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People who go online likely consider the risks involved with using the Internet. People who contemplate extra-martial affairs probably consider the risks of those activities, too.

And, people who go online to seek out extra-marital affairs likely are mindful of the compounded risks of such endeavors. But do they envision that online adulterous activities could lead to a type of cyber warfare? Probably not, but at times reality can be stranger than fiction.

By now, unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of the hack attack on the Ashley Madison site. Long story short, Ashley Madison is a site that boasts many millions of "anonymous" users who can seek out sexual partners outside of their marriages, because "life is short." Unfortunately for the "anonymous" Ashley Madison users, the site was hacked, personally identifiable information was obtained, the identities of some of the site's users has been revealed, and there is the prospect that other

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