This is kind of a nothing burger since most users dont register any details. There is no data to be gathered. The real surprise will be how they got compromised.
4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked
Submitted 1 year ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/648908/4chan-hacked-down-outage-leak
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Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 year ago
… You can register on 4chan?
peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Even bigger question: why would you register on 4chan. Isn’t the whole point anonymity?
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The only people who would register would be janitors, mods, and admins. There are 4chan passes where you pay $20 a year to skip captchas and have a lower post cooldown which works by associating a token with an IP address. The token is emailed to you and you get reminder emails when the token is expiring so you can renew it. So 4chan would likely have emails for pass users too. Pass users still post anonymously. I don’t know the exact stat but I remember the owner saying something like only 1% of users have a pass.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lol I hope they lose their jobs and educations
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Heard about this just a few hours ago, and have been laughing ever since. This is going to be brutal, there are people who registered with .gov e-mail addresses. As the use of 4chan has been cited to me as potentially disqualifying people seeking security clearance for government, police, or military careers, this hack single-handedly has the potential to torpedo thousands of edgy bois in one fell swoop.
nicolauz@feddit.org 1 year ago
Hilarious how you try to make fun of “edgy bois” while being one yourself and simultaneously being wrong.
If I ever seen a self burn.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
honestly a registered .gov address is a great way to recruit new meat into the ICE grinder
Vegasvator@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Keep dreaming. 4chan only has registration for staff. All you have to do to post on 4chan is a captcha.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you say so, I’ll take your word for it.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll never understand anyone that uses their school or work emails for social networking.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, is there even any verification? Or could I just register as bigboners69@harvard.edu or potus@us.gov?
arrakark@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Just wondering, what org specifically asks for 4chan use?
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been told that for clearance above reliability that social media use becomes an issue. 4chan was specifically cited to me by the person with whom I spoke. I’d assume that this means any/all alphabet government agencies, but Army was all that I heard about specifically.
“Do you browse or use 4chan?”
“No.”
“OK, good, because you weren’t advancing beyond this stage if you said yes.”
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hahahaha fucking fuck yeah
turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Now people will move to a place where their data is monetized and their speech is curated.
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t really give a shit about them
AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 1 year ago
Can the same happen to kiwifarms?
alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow, news to me. That place sucks.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Dang, now I have to go outside to find white supremacists.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Did you get banned from Truth?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I goddamn well hope so
unphazed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter and Fox News are just a click away!
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
noo muh greentexts ;-;
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 year ago
Well, that put a smile on my face
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good
return2ozma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 1 year ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
big_slap@lemmy.world 1 year ago
However, Jared Holt, a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, points out that in terms of wilder rumors about .edu and .gov email addresses in the leaked lists, “the source for this claim was not legit…after spending the morning with what materials I could halfway assess as legit I am sad to report that this is a real snoozer.”
come on man, read the article lol
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m having orgasmic convulsions like when my prostate gets rubbed during blowies
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 year ago
those are not the .edu ICE is looking for, unless for recruiting purposes
omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
L
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Why would anyone use their real email on 4chan? I wouldn’t touch it without at least a proxy or two and a vpn.
Vegasvator@lemmy.today 1 year ago
You don’t need an email at all to post on 4chan. You don’t register to use 4chan or post on 4chan. The only logins are for staff. People are making up and spreading rumors that don’t even know how 4chan works.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Gonna need seven firewalls for that kind of work.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They were hacked by Soyjak www.soyjak.st/soy/thread/10615723.html#10615802 / archive.ph/fxB6N
TacticalCheddar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My god, I just checked that site. The whole thing is a zoo. Millions of years of evolution went into this species only to go down the toilet there.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It’s mostly 16–23 year olds from around the western world, so you’re not far off