Reviewing the Ashley Madison Data (Initial Observations)

#1 It’s not Fake

I’m going through the Ashley Madison data and, first, I can confirm it is accurate. Right now, I won’t get in to how I know this. But, I’ll bet you can figure it out.

#2 It’s Enormous

There’s a lot of information to go through. There are ~36 million e-mail addresses. It’s taken me an hour to import the MySQL dump file, and I’m not sure I even want to export it to Excel (but, I’ll probably do it anyway).

#3 Low-Key, Yo

Some of the people on here will never get caught. In addition to all the people who used their real – and sometimes work – e-mail addresses (I’m looking at you, Tony Blair), there are also a lot of people trying to be discreet (like jon@meoff.net). Also, AM never required e-mail confirmation, so there’s a good chunk of bogus address in there.

Marines Move Four Tanks into Bulgaria

Marines move tanks into Europe | TheHill

I guess the Marines are beefing up the Black Sea Rotational Force with some guns and armor.

More than 160 Marines arrived in Germany on Sunday with four M1A1 Abram [sic] tanks, three 155 mm Howitzers, six light-armored vehicles and a supporting logistics package of vehicles and equipment.

via Marines move tanks into Europe | TheHill.

IMF Pisses Off the Chinese Communist Party

The IMF has been acting heroic lately.

It’s hard to believe. But, this is a sign of the times.

Sigh.

Markus Rodlauer, head of the IMF mission to China called for a “more market-oriented” rate. In other words the IMF is not happy that China lower the value of the yuan.

via xenagoguevicene: Beijing: IMF Head Has ‘total misunderstanding of the priorities within our Chinese Communist Party’.