Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 3 days ago
I feel like the result of this is gonna be a big ol nothingburger. There’s no way someone works as a mod/admin for the most controversial website on the internet and uses an email address that can be linked to their real identity, and doesn’t use a VPN/tor.
Pretty sensationalist article IMO. I mean, they act like the source code being leaked is newsworthy. Somebody with a month of coding experience could write that website in an afternoon.
There’s no way someone works as a mod/admin for the most controversial website on the internet and uses an email address that can be linked to their real identity, and doesn’t use a VPN/tor.
People are lazy as fuck and will do all kinds of things that surprise you especially when they become complacent.
Worse, some ppl used their work email:
The leak reportedly included [.]edu and [.]gov email addresses.
I’ve seen the list on the party site. Only 3 .edu, 0 .gov emails.
I already looked up 136 of the leaked emails. 61 of them are in at least one data breach.
normonator@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Tell that to Ross Ulbricht, he used his personal gmail account for shit with silk road.
Plenty of people just know enough to get what they want done.
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 3 days ago
Exactly this, but to be clear he used his personal email account on one forum where he made a post promoting it in the early days. Everything else was solid and, if they hadn’t found the post, I don’t think they would have been able to link him.
A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link and if the admin logs are descriptive enough, then it would only take one mistake to take down the metaphorical tower of cards.