Journalists laboring over the cold statistics of the Ashley Madison leakage have concluded what was surely already guessed at by any reasonably intuitive person. The entire operation is an empty exercise with many false names and very little action. Gizmodo, a French language blog, says it finds only a scattering of women on the dating website for cheaters ever used it. Gizmodo declares that just 1,492 women had ever checked their messages versus more than 20 million men who had scanned in boxes anticipating sultry notes. And our guess is that millions of these were giggling undergraduates at universities all over the world or hapless misfits who had never heard of Match.
