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Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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This is how it is done, the hacker ‘Martha Root’ dressed as the pink power ranger and hacked white supremacist dating sites, stole their data, took down their sites and then proceeded to DOX members by making a map with members locations and information around the world.

You do understand that if their side does the same, you won't have any kind of moral high ground to stand on because you have already condoned stooping to their level?

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Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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This is how it is done, the hacker ‘Martha Root’ dressed as the pink power ranger and hacked white supremacist dating sites, stole their data, took down their sites and then proceeded to DOX members by making a map with members locations and information around the world.

While no one likes racists: A crime against someone you disagree with is still a crime. A crime against someone you despise is still a crime. A crime against someone who commits a crime is still a crime. So good intent, very, very bad execution, IMO.

Here we see an example of the law-and-order personality type, where the most important thing is to follow the law.

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

While no one likes racists: A crime against someone you disagree with is still a crime. A crime against someone you despise is still a crime. A crime against someone who commits a crime is still a crime. So good intent, very, very bad execution, IMO.

Here we see an example of the law-and-order personality type, where the most important thing is to follow the law.

That is kind of the point of a law, to be impartial. Without it we might as well go back to the stone age.

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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What's missing from the article is that this was also done live on stage at 39C3. Great energy.

Link to video? Not sure what to search for lol

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-...

The 40 minutes of the presentation before the hack gives a lot more context: there are 2 journalists in addition to this anonymous pink Power Ranger, and they investigated the Nazi network, which is international. And Martha Root (the pink power ranger) was trolling them by creating an account and using LLM. The LLM didn't work properly, the account was blocked for suspicions of being a bot (and maybe for having "= 1 OR 1" as eg. gender), she talked her way out of it, and incredibly the admin that unblocked her asked if she wanted to meet up with him, and the site's founder. She said yes, didn't show up, but used that opportunity to covertly follow them and uncover the founder's identity - the journalists found that it's a 57-year old lady who's never been known in the scene, who was married to a French banker whose parents survived the holocaust, but in the last decade fell into the rabbit hole of white-victimization-theory.

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here we see an example of the law-and-order personality type, where the most important thing is to follow the law.

That is kind of the point of a law, to be impartial. Without it we might as well go back to the stone age.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here we see an example of the law-and-order personality type, where the most important thing is to follow the law.

That is kind of the point of a law, to be impartial. Without it we might as well go back to the stone age.

Sometimes laws are bad - but people in Kohlberg stage 4 don't think so.

There are many obvious historical counterexamples to laws being neutral, or good.

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Somehow I'm not holding my breath for this gal to be prosecuted under the CFAA. And then people wonder why the global right is rejecting the idea of the rule of law...

> Somehow I'm not holding my breath for this gal to be prosecuted under the CFAA. Considering that she, the act, and the targeted site are in Germany, that's a fair bet. > And then people wonder why the global right is rejecting the idea of the rule of law... Ah, you did the cartoon. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/8/1786532/-Cartoon-Y...

Nice cartoon, I will steal your link :D

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Link to video? Not sure what to search for lol

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-... The 40 minutes of the presentation before the hack gives a lot more context: there are 2 journalists in addition to this anonymous pink Power Ranger, and they investigated the Nazi network, which is international. And Martha Root (the pink power ranger) was trolling them by creating an account and using LLM. The LLM didn't work properly, the account was…

Thank you! I only searched on YouTube and didn’t think to search on the actual c3 website…

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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This is how it is done, the hacker ‘Martha Root’ dressed as the pink power ranger and hacked white supremacist dating sites, stole their data, took down their sites and then proceeded to DOX members by making a map with members locations and information around the world.

While no one likes racists: A crime against someone you disagree with is still a crime. A crime against someone you despise is still a crime. A crime against someone who commits a crime is still a crime. So good intent, very, very bad execution, IMO.

A act against someone random may be a crime. The same against someone committing a crime, may not be a crime.
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