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As Gawker reported last week, Porn WikiLeaks obtained this information from a patient database at an STD testing clinic in California. In addition to the porn stars' real names, the leaked database from the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM) contained their home addresses, information on their family members, and copies of their state ID cards. Most entries posted to Porn WikiLeaks feature only an actor's name, date of birth and stage name -- basic, but potentially disastrous information for any ex-performer looking to hide his or her past. Some entries go much further.
The page on Monica Foster, for example, features detailed information on her family members, including their employers, home addresses, and photos of their homes taken from Google Streetview. When Foster became involved in a scandal with baseball player Lenny Dykstra last year, the commenters on Porn Wikileaks' forums began using this information to harass her. "They called my work, they tried to call my dad's house," Foster told Gawker. "At this point I was paranoid and afraid that someone might show up at my apartment complex and try to hurt me."
Foster says she's contacted the FBI, but U.S. authority is limited, since the site is hosted out of the Netherlands. No one really knows who started Porn WikiLeaks, but many suspect Donald Carlos Seoane -- a former actor and director who was known as a rabble-rouser throughout the industry. Seoane, however, denies any involvement with the site, aside from "having an account" on Porn WikiLeaks, and using it to "speak out about the gays ruining the porn industry."
Porn WikiLeaks' message boards are littered with similarly bigoted sentiments, posted by users who hold gays responsible for spreading HIV throughout the industry. The site hasn't published any test results from patients at AIM, but some performers have voluntarily submitted their own results, simply to dispel rumors that spread across Porn WikiLeaks.
Gay porn star James Jamesson, for example, recently posted his negative HIV result in order to prove that he wasn't intentionally spreading the disease to his colleagues. Setting the record straight, he said, was of paramount importance. "That's dangerous if someone has the right mindset," Jamesson told Gawker. "I can't predict what people are going to do."
Porn WikiLeaks clearly thinks of itself as a natural extension of its namesake. Its mission statement is lifted directly from the original Wikileaks site, and some within the organization seem genuinely convinced that they're fighting the good fight. "Our goals with making the adult industry less corrupt and more open is kind of like the real wikileaks," an anonymous administrator wrote in an e-mail to Gawker. "Kind of" being the operative words.
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Subscribe to commentsNemephosisApr 4th 2011 11:27AM
Well if people had some basic respect for themselves and didn't expose themselves for money, there'd be nothing to hide, would there? Imagine that: I don't make porn, and so I don't have to hide it! When you do stupid shit, THERE IS CONSEQUENCES. People are going to learn this sooner or later, the easy or the hard way, and it seems like people just have to learn it the hard way.
DarkladyApr 4th 2011 3:30PM
@Nemephosis
"There is consequences?"
Yeah, not gaining a proper education does have consequences, yes... like looking foolish while beating ones' chest about how other people should expect to suffer for doing "stupid shit."
If people didn't try to shame and mistreat those who choose to "expose themselves for money, there'd be nothing to hide, would there?"
Are we to assume that because you don't do porn, you'd be comfortable having your parents names and places of employment put on a website? How about your medical records or scans of your ID?
Or... is that difference cuz you're such a moral and upstanding member of your community and nobody has a right to force "consequences" on you when you've done nothing wrong?
ipodiousApr 4th 2011 5:15PM
@Darklady
Cannot compute response. "Education" and "cuz" used in long drawn out response.
I saw this coming as I'm sure everyone else did, just surprised it didn't happen sooner.
constineApr 5th 2011 7:35AM
HIV is not actually a death sentence. It is a disease that can be managed and be controlled by the individual who acquired it allowing him to live a long normal and productive life like anyone else. STDchats,com the largest dating and support site for HIV singles claim that they have 200,000 HIV members, Most of them are here to find understanding, support and love. It is really a good thing that encourage each other, Leading a healthy life.
xxp84Apr 12th 2011 4:05PM
This is just sick. THIS is a great way to get innocent people killed by psychos. And if you think an adult film actor/actress deserves to be assaulted or murdered for offending your religious beliefs about sex or porn, then I'll come right out and say it: you are a bad person.
The creator of this site isn't doing anything positive and to pretend that exposing just any information is automatically noble is a ridiculous, immature attitude.