4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.

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• raod_guitar@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not the type of hacktivism we need but the one we deserve.

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  • Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or “the sharty”. They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I’ve heard and seen from the website.

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah - the real freaks left because moot dated like Brianna Wu or something stupid and weird like that. 8chan was the place for a bit.

      4chan is owned by an anime figma company at the moment - i think Nendroid?

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.

  It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.

  The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.

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  • elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web… or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way… and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.

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    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting

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  • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.

    Kill WordPress now.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, the owner of Wordpress is allegedly a piece of s…

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    • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m unconvinced that it’s even possible to write clean code in a language as fucked-up as PHP.

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    • ProtecyaTec@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Really though, it doesn’t.

      Github -> WordPress

      Github -> 4chan

      I absolutely hate the way 4chan formats their HTML + PHP intermingling in views. That’s not to say WordPress doesn’t do this as well, but oh man in a much better, cleaner, and more sparingly way. The 4chan imageboard view Github -> 4chan is absolute chaos. Why this wasn’t rewritten is beyond me. That’s just the first thing I see as I peruse the source, I can’t imagine it gets much better from here.

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  • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I looked at some of the leaked source code

    Where? I’d be interested in looking through it too

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    • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?

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• JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good Luck, Im Behind 7 Boxxies

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  • dentoid@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now thats a meme i havent seen in 20 years

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    • JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    damn it’s even in the original 140p

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    • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      120x160, actually, but effectively close enough.

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• Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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  • djsp@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that the average 4chaner?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Above average.

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A bunch of chuds got angry that they were banned because they went brigading against LGBTQ+ folk.

    This was the end result

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    • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah yes, there’s no honor amongst thieves.

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  • johncandy1812@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By my understanding, 4chan left themselves vulnerable which, given the circles they foster, means they going to be compromised. No fear of reprisal or consequence for it either. Not like when attacking a majot corporation or government.

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i’m fairly certain there are more than likely a LOT of politicians on there with very questionable posting records who would probably be on a sex offender registry if it got out.

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    • CallateCoyote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they’re Republican it won’t matter.

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For the lulz!

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  • stoicmaverick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For the LULZ obviously.

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  • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For revenge

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  • witnessbolt@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Elon thing is possible, and there’s a screenshot in the Reddit thread that’s kinda convincing, but I’m still not bought in.

    Tinfoil hat brain is wondering if there’s something in there someone’s supposed to find but 😂 🤷🏻

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.

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  • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.

    I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.

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    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/…/3/

      Allegedly Elon’s account.

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• BossPaint@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this the end of 4 Chan?

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If so, it’s a fitting way for them to die.

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  • hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    4chan died a long time ago.

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    • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When do you consider it died? 2015 when Poole sold it?

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    • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yet the rotting carcass is still around stinking

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  • Naevermix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, the people who come there are retarded. They will still be retarded in a week or a month from now.

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  • militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who is this 4chan guy?

    youtu.be/kRcdmbC0HHs

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That Reddit thread is a very strange experience for someone not of their culture

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lemmy and 4chan do have one thing in common

    Hating reddit.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also a shady image to the point some people who have only heard of it think it‘s some deep web voodoo. They have that in common somehow.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course, they hate Reddit because they can’t use hate speech there

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is all 4chan lingo. As a general rule of thumb, if it sounds like something Elon would say, it’s from 4chan.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just remember that the vast majority of those users are in their mid-late 30s or even early 40s. Zoomers and even younger millennials never gave a shit about 4chan.

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    • HATEFISH@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe they didn’t care to the same degree but unfortunately incel culture was fostered in several areas, and a lot of them are younger than mid 30s.

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    • Gloria@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think my only contact with 4chan was to get JAV content and also my first contact with torrenting.

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  • Brutticus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    its like… getting a whiff of something I haven’t felt in a long time.

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    more like very sad

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• Darkard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pools closed

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• gargolito@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is q-anon Elon Musk? What? I’m just asking questions.

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should check out the HBO documentary on Qanon. It’s fantastic. Essentially, no. However, I don’t doubt for a second that Elon didn’t try to co-opt it at some point.

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  • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares

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    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      furthermore, it’s reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability

      ContraPoints did an excellent video in conspiracy theories recently: www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He would certainly take credit for it.

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  • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That would be interesting. I wonder if anyone’s done stylometry on those posts

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• dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?

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  • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raised 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.

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    • verity@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which site did qa migrate to?

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    • Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fascinating. Live by the trolls, die by the trolls.

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• FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently Elon Musk is mentioned quite frequently in these leaks, but take this with a sea of salt as there is no way to independently verify: archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/…/3/

  reddit.com/…/elon_musks_alleged_unverified_4chan_… summarizes these posts

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  • tauonite@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As much as I hate Elmo, I still value truth more. There is 0 evidence he’s behind that account. And given that the account claims to own Twitter (= claims to be Elmo), it’s far more likely to be a troll than a secret-but-not-secret account by the richest fuckface in the world

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you look trough the posts, people were slowly claiming it to be musk and he was slowly confirming it.

      That could ofcourse be a troll too.

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    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Guess the posts times could be crosschecked with times when Musk was in public events or so, not to confirm it is him, but to see if it not

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  10000 line file with no comments is honestly relatable

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I posted an amusing comment on the orange site about this and got a death threat in 2 minutes.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The hacker known as 4chan hacked himself? 😮

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, the mysterious hacker known as 4chan.

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• hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They were hacked by removed www.soyjak.st/soy/thread/10615723.html#10615802

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• swab148@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And nothing of value was lost

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• Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They need to hack Reddit.

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• briever@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe they could do the world a favour and delete it - along with the backups.

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• dontbelasagne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which one of you is going to hack reddit then?

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• Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, a bunch of trolls got hacked? I’m not sure how I’m expected to feel about this, but frankly, I’m not feeling anything at all.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kinda inevitable after moot sold it.

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• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I never liked 4Chan even when /b was the big thing and not the /pol.

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This amuses me. Fuck that refuse scow

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok now I’m curious about the alien photo they’re talking about in the comments.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was wiondering what was up Last night

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• opus86@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The 4chan Captcha never worked for me, so I stopped trying years ago. I used to go there to troll trolls when I was in a mood.

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• Naevermix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There just has to be a copy of the database somewhere out there…

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