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The last thing your white-only dating app sees before its webserver is deleted (lemmy.ml)
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Context: A hacker wearing a pink power ranger costume deleted a racist dating website live at the end of their 39c3 talk this year.

Video of the talk (together with two journalists) here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber#l=eng

(The link is set to English translation, original talk is in German. Deletion happens here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber#l=eng&t=2577)

The pink power ranger running through explosions
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[–] -5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

So they made it so this little bit of containment is now gone and the racists can now disseminate into the good dating apps?? I don't know how this was better for the majority..

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago

    Well the rationale is that they were announcing live to the world (and therefore also the website owner) that "all your base are belong to us". So instead of giving the website owner time to fix their flawed IT security they just deleted all the infected systems at the end of the talk (including some backups and admin accounts).

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