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Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Post by dijit » Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 6:08 AM UTC

tcfhgj wrote: post #60

dijit wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What country? In the UK Vigilante justice is punished extremely hard. If you commit a crime in the commission of preventing crime you will go to jail. There's a couple of things that are permitted and they're outlined as "detainment without excessive force" - for citizens arrest, and then it's only for the duration until a relevant authority can be called... with a maximum term of time that authority must be called..…

Germany

So, self-defence laws in Germany apply to property also.

But it seems like they're also very restrictive on what you're permitted to do. Hacking has no justification in law.

in 2021 there was new laws added to help security researchers, but that goes out of the window as soon as you release private information (which has no justification in German law and may get you 2 years of prison time).

So, at least in the context of this thread; committing a crime in the comission of stopping a crime is not legal.

Or were you referencing something else?

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Post by Baljhin » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 8:29 AM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #49

netsharc wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The English version is @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wva0cyliVk

Re: Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

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Post by sparklysoup » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 9:34 AM UTC

netsharc wrote: post #45

Insanity wrote: post #38

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…

> 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.

Just to clarify, she fell into the rabbit hole, not him. He divorced her. Your comment can easily be read both ways.