‘Tinder for Nazis’ and the woman who hacked it

“纳粹版Tinder”及其黑客女侠

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2026-04-02

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Anonymous activist Martha Root on how she hacked into, and took down, a dating site for white supremacists. With reporting from investigative journalist Eva Hoffman. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, how one woman took down Tinder for Nazis, dressed as a feminist superhero.

  • It was the very end of December last year, when the Chaos Computer Club held its annual conference in Hamburg.

  • So, the Chaos Computer Club is one of the oldest hacking organization in Germany,

  • and they have a yearly convention called the Chaos Communication Congress.

  • This is Martha Root.

  • Not her real name, not her real voice.

  • It's a mixture of people just like sitting there for three days, playing with hardware or 3D printers or whatever.

  • And they're like a lot of presentation and talks about hacking.

  • Martha is a hacker and is incredibly secretive about her true identity.

  • I am a researcher, investigator, and I prefer to keep my rear name for myself because the neo-Nazis

  • and the racist networks I'm investigating, they 're like some people who are quite dangerous.

  • Martha took to the stage to talk about her latest and most audacious hack.

  • In disguise, of course, she was dressed as a pink Power Ranger.

  • Meet the Pink Ranger.

  • Kimberly is a bright and beautiful girl who loves shopping malls and gymnastics.

  • I was kind of looking for a not-too-dangerous-looking way to hike my face and also to make it seem a little bit funny,

  • at least.

  • Martha had been invited to address the Congress alongside two journalists from the German newspaper Die Zeit.

  • Together, they'd been investigating a neo-Nazi dating website called White Date, which Martha had hacked into.