TORONTO ¨C Larry Flynt, a defender of free speech and sexual freedom if there ever was one, has this advice for anyone worried by the hack of infidelity site Ashley Madison: Muzzle yourself.
¡°Don¡¯t do or say anything you wouldn¡¯t want to read about on the front page of the New York Times,¡± said the founder of Hustler magazine and owner of businesses that sell sexually explicit videos online.
It might be too late for many people who, lured by a supposed cloak of digital anonymity, have shared their innermost wishes, fetishes and fantasies on hook-up and porn sites. And those companies know that their digital troves of secrets are exactly what make them a target for emboldened hackers.
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