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)
:cyber-warrior:
No Nazi should get laid, I'm pretty happy with this.
That would be great but they are all still alive and reachable
Are they? For me the website has a Cloudflare captcha leading into a 404: https://whitedate.net/
After the talk it had a rick-roll embed for some time. :D
I tried the 1st two that the script deleted (whitechild.net and whitedeal.net) at 11:35am Pacific Time on Jan 3rd and they both came up fine...sadly
Could be the site owner is in the process of restoring access, the talk (and thus the deletion) happened on 29th of December.
True. I just saw the script say it was deleting backups so I got happy for a moment
But it seems there is no real content on those websites? So maybe they just started to recreate those sites.
Well that's probably true. I mean lots of stuff was obviously hacked and deleted, and if you trust the script output in the stream mostly from whitedate. child and deal are later off-shoots it seems, but date had like 6k users, some paying, the main project basically. And it's still offline. And whitedeal shows a 2019 copyright notice. :D
There was an interactive map of the user profiles hosted by the hacker at https://okstupid.lol/ but it seems to be down right now. And the journalists who participated in the talk (and pointedly left before the script was run) announced there will be more articles released soon.
Geeile aktion
Minute 43 für all diejenigen die nur kurz zeit für den löschen-part haben
Der zweite Link oben hat den Zeitstempel.
me and a few friends talked to a local dude who put his discord in his bio on that website. turns out he was generally a normal and pleasant dude and since that he did a complete 180. Last time he used WhiteDate was 2018. People, especially young people, can change a lot in almost a Decade.
some of them may not be the monstrous assholes we imagine them to be. (except those guys with nazi tats and showing off swastikas)
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..
Nazis don’t get to have safe spaces.
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.
Maybe they are all gay Nazis. I'm not saying openly gay, but gay nonetheless
Containment doesn't work, splitting them up weakens them and makes it harder to congregate and build mass.
Where are these good dating apps you speak of?
Not in this room with us, that much I know.
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).