Love it or hate it, sls is part of many of our lifestyle experiences.

A typical website outage is at most an inconvenience but the sls outage seems much more maleficent.
The Twitter-verse is suggesting there was a data breach and SLS is fanning the flames with their typical lack of transparency and indifference to users. They've claimed they took the site down due to a virus which, as any server engineer will tell you, is improbable (or reckless if they let anyone install any old software downloaded from the internet on their servers). So perhaps it was a data breach, perhaps it was ransomware or perhaps someone just tripped over the cord -- we may never know!

The sls outage notwithstanding: In an Ashley Madison 2.0 scenario the openminded swinger community seems to be at extra risk for doxxing since many are not out as either bi or in the lifestyle. So the question is how to protect ourselves when (not if) an inevitable data breach happens?

Here's the precautions I took (well before this and all LS sites/apps):

• I used a burner email address when creating my account.
• I used a unique, random password which I never reused on another site.
• I picked a username that was common enough that if someone google image search it there's paying advertisers google's algorithm will prioritize.
• I never upload nudes or anything I wouldn't post on facebook, instagram, etc.
• Rename and scrub all metadata from pictures and before uploading.
• I don't mention my real name, etc on the sites messenger and quickly move serious conversations onto a more secure messenger like telegram, signal, etc.
• I don't actually have anything to lose if I am doxed -- friends, family, etc all know.

I would love to hear what others are doing to protect their LS privacy online!