"A hacker who goes by the pseudonym Martha Root made a big splash during the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, last month, as Hackread reports. While dressed as the Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers, Root unceremoniously deleted the servers of WhiteDate, a site described by writer Eva Hoffman as a "Tinder for Nazis." While she was at it, she also wiped WhiteChild, a service that connected white supremacist sperm and egg donors, and WhiteDeal, a blatantly racist marketplace for freelance labor, at the end of her 44-minute speech."
"During the latest presentation, titled "The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber," Root can be seen opening a terminal window on her MacBook following a brief question and answer period, and running a Python script called lol.py. "Delete whitechild.net," reads the window, followed by a checkmark emoji and the word, "Done!" The message was met by thunderous applause from the audience gathered at the event."
White supremacist niche dating and service platforms operated online with inherently racist, exclusionary purposes. Poor cybersecurity among those platforms left them vulnerable to attack. A hacker using the name Martha Root accessed and deleted servers for WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal using a Python script during a public presentation at a conference. The hacker also trained an AI chatbot to engage and extract information from platform users. Collaboration with investigative journalists aided identification of the targets. The actions illustrate how hacktivism and AI tools can disrupt extremist online infrastructure and expose user data.
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