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4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.
Submitted 11 months ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://old.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/1jzkjlg/4chan_hacked_hacker_reopens_qa_and_leaks_all/
Comments
opus86@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 11 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.
epicstove@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s like a circus, grab popcorn and watch.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
well thing is, they might be searching for a new home
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh many of them are here already.
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 11 months ago
As someone who has never actually used 4chan, I have popcorn and am just sitting back and enjoying the shit show
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s the best way to consume 4chan content.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I never liked 4Chan even when /b was the big thing and not the /pol.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Oh god /pol/ is the hot spot now? I can only imagine the cess pit.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 11 months ago
/b/ is just logspammers and porn now
dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which one of you is going to hack reddit then?
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
ok ok I’ll do it.
grumbles
always have to do EVERYTHING here
Naevermix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There just has to be a copy of the database somewhere out there…
vga@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I posted an amusing comment on the orange site about this and got a death threat in 2 minutes.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I mean, the same will happen here if you post the wrong opinion. It’s not that different from Reddit. (See how I used to word and nothing happened, btw?)
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
I would like to be hung. 😏
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This amuses me. Fuck that refuse scow
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 11 months ago
someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds
Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 11 months ago
djsp@feddit.org 11 months ago
Is that the average 4chaner?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Above average.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 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?
FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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.
Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Fascinating. Live by the trolls, die by the trolls.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
The hacker known as 4chan hacked himself? 😮
Naevermix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Turns out the hacker known as 4chan barely knows how his own code.
cyphear@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Who is this anonymous and why does he keep talking to himself?
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Come over to Marblecake and I’ll explain.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 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.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 11 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.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 months ago
archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/…/3/
Allegedly Elon’s account.
briever@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe they could do the world a favour and delete it - along with the backups.
synicalx@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I doubt there’s any such thing as backups, nothing on there is permanent that’s why so many archive sites exist.
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. For the same reason that they didn’t demolish Auschwitz. We must learn from our follies, lest we repeat them.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Bro you’re giving 4chan waaaaay too much credit wtf, comparing it to literal genocide?
Come on.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
backups were always against the spirit of 4chan
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
10000 line file with no comments is honestly relatable
Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My nightmare source was only a few lines less, and it actually was commented. But in French. Label names were also dereived from French. The original author was dead, and Google translate was not yet a thing.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I’ve seen code where all the comments were simply URL references to tickets on a now deleted Trello board. Great, real helpful thanks.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 11 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.
jqubed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?
Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.
Kill WordPress now.
futatorius@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m unconvinced that it’s even possible to write clean code in a language as fucked-up as PHP.
ProtecyaTec@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Really though, it doesn’t.
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.
Scrollone@feddit.it 11 months ago
Also, the owner of Wordpress is allegedly a piece of s…
elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 11 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
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.
gamer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I looked at some of the leaked source code
Where? I’d be interested in looking through it too
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 11 months ago
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
damn it’s even in the original 140p
Psythik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
120x160, actually, but effectively close enough.
dentoid@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Now thats a meme i havent seen in 20 years
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 11 months ago
It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.
gargolito@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Is q-anon Elon Musk? What? I’m just asking questions.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 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
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He would certainly take credit for it.
Alteon@lemmy.world 11 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.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 11 months ago
That would be interesting. I wonder if anyone’s done stylometry on those posts
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 11 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
tauonite@lemmy.world 11 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
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 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
x00z@lemmy.world 11 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.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I was wiondering what was up Last night
Angelusz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not 4chan!
scytale@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ok now I’m curious about the alien photo they’re talking about in the comments.
Darkard@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pools closed
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Kinda inevitable after moot sold it.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
They need to hack Reddit.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
In away they did.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Yeah reddit and Lemmy are just auxiliary troll communities to the OG forums like 4chan.
Same people. Same shitty behaviour just slightly different topics and levels of trolling.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
lol
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 months ago
What’s the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.
witnessbolt@lemm.ee 11 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 😂 🤷🏻
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For the LULZ obviously.
swab148@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And nothing of value was lost
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
That Reddit thread is a very strange experience for someone not of their culture
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Ah, the mysterious hacker known as 4chan.
raod_guitar@feddit.org 11 months ago
Not the type of hacktivism we need but the one we deserve.
Ickabod@lemm.ee 11 months ago
*Well it looks like 4Chan is *… [puts on shades], **NoChan… **YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!