And Then There is Real Journalism

An, "old-school anarchist researcher," infiltrated the white supremacist dating site WhiteDate and released thousands of user records.

I know what some of my reader(s) are thinking, "But she hacked them, that's a violation of journalistic efforts."

Just ask Woodward and Bernstein, who used personal credit card data covering Watergate.

An “old-school anarchist researcher,” who goes by the online pseudonym Martha Root, claims to have breached a racist dating site and two similar platforms.

The leak affects WhiteDate, a white supremacist dating site for “Europids seeking tribal love,” WhiteChild, a white supremacist site focused on family and ancestry, and WhiteDeal, a networking and professional development site for people with a racist worldview.

All three platforms were operated by a right-wing extremist from Germany.

“I infiltrated a racist dating site and made nazis fall in love with robots,” Root claims.

The journalist found that websites’ cybersecurity hygiene was so poor that it “would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.”

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The researcher created a website okstupid.lol, where 8,000 leaked profiles are placed on the map, exposing users from very different regions of the world.

The data includes highly sensitive and detailed self-reported information, such as usernames, gender, age, location, activity history, lifestyle, height, eye color, hair color, and other physical appearance traits, income range, education, marital status, religion, and even self-assessed IQ, among many other fields. 

I approve.