Further Down the Ashley Madison Spiral (Pt. 2)

On the Media | Sep 3, 2015

Many in the media covered the predictable angles of the Ashley Madison story: the hypocrisy of public figures discovered in the site's hacked membership database, the questions it seemed to raise about marriage and fidelity, and the cybersecurity issues it highlighted. But buried deep within the Ashley Madison website's source code, which was leaked along with the personal information of the company's customers, was a much weirder story about how the adult dating community functioned. Gizmodo editor in chief Annalee Newitz performed a thorough analysis of the code - she tells Brooke about her startling conclusions.

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