‘Tinder for Nazis’ and the woman who hacked it
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.5 | Today, how one woman took down Tinder for Nazis, dressed as a feminist superhero. It was the very end of December last year, |
| 0:27.2 | when the Chaos Computer Club held its annual conference in Hamburg. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to 9-C3 PowerCicles. |
| 0:39.4 | So the Chaos Computer Cup is one or the oldest hacking organization in Germany. |
| 0:46.4 | And they have a yearly convention called the La Chaos Communication Congress. |
| 0:51.4 | This is Martha Roots, not her real name, not her real voice. It's a mixture of people |
| 0:56.9 | just sitting there for three days, playing with hardware or 3D printers or whatever, |
| 1:01.5 | and there like a lot of presentation and talks about hacking. Martha is a hacker and is |
| 1:07.0 | incredibly secretive about her true identity. I am a researcher and investigator, |
| 1:13.7 | and I prefer to keep my re-name for myself |
| 1:17.2 | because the neo-Nazis and the racist networks, |
| 1:20.0 | I'm investigating there are like some people who are quite dangerous. |
| 1:28.3 | Martha took to the stage to talk about her latest and most audacious hack, in disguise, of course. |
| 1:35.0 | She was dressed as a pink power ranger. |
| 1:37.6 | Meet the Pink Ranger. |
| 1:39.7 | Kimberly is a bright and beautiful girl who loves shopping malls and gymnastics. |
| 1:45.1 | I was kind of looking for not too dangerous-looking way to hike my face |
| 1:51.4 | and also to make it seem a little bit fun at least. |
| 2:00.6 | Martha had been invited to address the Congress alongside two journalists from the |
| 2:06.6 | German newspaper at Diedside. |
| 2:08.6 | Together, they'd been investigating a neo-Nazi dating website called White Date, which Martha had hacked into. |
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