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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)

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[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (5 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..

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 month ago

Nazis don’t get to have safe spaces.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is, because it was not only used as a dating site but also to network.

There were only about 10% women on that site, so not that much dating going on there.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe they are all gay Nazis. I'm not saying openly gay, but gay nonetheless

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 12 points 1 month ago

Containment doesn't work, splitting them up weakens them and makes it harder to congregate and build mass.

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where are these good dating apps you speak of?

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Not in this room with us, that much I know.

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month 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).