Saxypotatochud

Last week, I listened to the latest episode of the Hyperfixed podcast. In this episode, we meet a lady who found a dating website for white supremacists. Give it a listen. Most of it is how she tracked down and identified the site owners, and I'm not even going to discuss that part of the story.

For many years, I used a software package called Wordpress to serve up the pages for this website. It's still around, and it is still the engine behind many many sites. Go to any site and see if there's a page at this_site/wp-login.php, and there's a better than average chance that there's a login screen. If you can guess a user name and password, you're in charge of the site now.

It's also bloated and slow to load, and if you don't keep your version updated, it's going to get hacked sooner or later.

Well, this lady found that the white supremacist dating site was using wordpress, and that they had not taken even the most basic security precautions. They actually had a page set up outside of the logged-in-user area that gave them a button saying "Download Members." (The podcaster seemed to say that this is on by default, but I don't think that's true.)

And then, she really starting doing good work. She took the whole data set of members, read the users' profile pictures by the latitude and longitude, and plotted it on an interactive map with each user represented as a potato. You can see it all for yourself at okstupid.lol. What a great domain name she got.

Naturally, I did what all of you are going to do when you read this -- check out my own neighborhood for racist hardlegs.

As I zoomed in, I'm thinking, "Holy shit, the right potato looks like it's right by my house."

I get a little farther in, and I'm relieved to see that the horny cracker call isn't coming from inside my house. But it is quite close.

It could be someone taking a selfie while waiting to go into the Beer Garden. It could have been someone at Baton Rouge Music Studio, which is also at that intersection.

Maybe it was someone taking a protest picture at Planned Parenthood over there. They sometimes protest there, even though abortions have never been performed at Planned Parenthood in Louisiana. On the contrary, they do give away free or discounted birth control, so they're probably responsible for preventing thousands of abortions. Next time, I'm going to join the protesters, pretending to be someone who is hell bent opposed to mammograms.

Anyway, I clicked on the neighborhood potato, and here's the guy's info. You might do yourself a favor and skip the text. It's fucking gross.

I'm making too many assumptions now to be correct, but the "Saxy" in the name makes me think he's part of the music studio. I don't know the people in there well, but Ko did some lessons there, and they're pretty active in neighborhood stuff. If I ask around, we definitely have friends in common. So someone reading this, do me a favor. Ask them if they have a saxophone teacher who really really really doesn't like Coltrane and they can't figure out why. ("I'm more of a Kenny G guy," I imagine him explaining.)

I looked at Reddit and Twitter looking for that same handle, hoping he was stupid enough to use the same one in real life that he uses in Cro-Magnum dating, but I didn't find it. I wish I had better private eye skills. I would love to out this piece of garbage.

Let me know what kinds of chuds you find in your own neighborhood. Here's the link again, so you don't even have to scroll back up: okstupid.lol