Throbbing Hive with John Moe: Hacks and Quacks
September 01, 2015
Every Tuesday at 7:30 a.m., John Moe stops into the Morning Show to share the latest news in Technology.
This week, John Moe stopped by The Current's Morning Show to talk to Jill Riley and Sean McPherson about an Ashley Madison update since the hack. And to cleanse your palate, John describes a new meme involving screaming fake ducks. 'It's going to improve your life,' John says.
The latest in the Ashley Madison hack
"For those two don't know, this is the website where you can ostensibly sign up and meet people who are married and have illicit affairs with each other," John explains. "It was hacked, somebody got hold of all the user information."
Since the names were released, there has been a lot of fallout among some of the people who's names have been exposed. But Ashley Madison may not have been all it was supposedly cracked up to be. John reports that an analysis by the website Gizmodo revealed that of Ashley Madison's users, 31 milliion were men and 5.5 million were women — and of those 5.5 million women, only about 12,000 profiles belonged to actual women. ""The rest are robots and scams and pornbots and all sorts of other things and entities and bits of code posing as women," John says. "Dudes — nothing much is gonna happen."
John goes on to say that Ashley Madison has since issued a statement saying the site is now secure, and that 87,000 women have registered with the site. "[But] we're supposed to believe this from a site whose foundation is cheating and deception," John says.
Screaming Duck meme
On a much lighter note, John shares a new meme involving a basketful of screaming fake ducks. When a man presses down on the pile of synthetic ducks, "An entire symphony of screaming fake duck noises happens," John explains. "For some dumb reason, it's one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time."
It's a fun follow-up to the previously popular screaming goats.
John Moe co-hosts the podcast Conversation Parade (with Open Mike Eagle) and he also hosts the Home Dunk podcast, both from Infinite Guest.