Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[demicolon]

This is some napkin math, correct me if I'm wrong:
If you're picking a sentence then it doesn't matter because the attacker could just brute force with sentences, assuming they're not doing markov chain related attacks.
Assuming an average book has 20000 sentences, taking a sentence out of the 1000 most popular books, you're looking at about ~24.3 bits of entropy, less than 6 randomly picked lowercase English characters.

Okay, so let's say my password would be something like
"War and Peace, from the 222 page pick the first word with interpunction mark if any, do it for 20 next pages for 20 words total"
it would give 20 unrelated, randomly capitalized words with random special characters. Would it be good enough?

Password managers make me suspicious for some reason. What if you're stranded without one and need to login from some random cafe? You can google War and Peace everywhere.
What if FBI gets your password manager? Can't they just brute force the master password or crack the software?
What if your password manager gets corrupted by, say, a hard drive malfunction?
What's the advantage of using one instead of writing your passwords down (excluding the "FBI arrests you and your password notebook" whataboutism Null loves to answer that question with)?

 

[Fucker Carlson]

I'm sure this is fake but there was that one quest in BOTW where you had to hook up some grown man with a little zora child.

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It is real, but supposedly a mistranslation. Whether it was intentional or a mistake is a different question.

 

[Kaoss Edge]

At least 4chan going down like this is funny, the slow death it was suffering before wasn't nice to look at

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

It's funny how most people commenting on this event are newfags from at best, the Chanology era of 4chan, when their userbase exploded. Nothing of value was lost because these people didn't see anything of value, despite what they may think. It's not surprising that the site is a rusted out shell of code haunted by jannies with unironic AIDS. I say good riddance. A time to die.

 

[MoeAnonymous]

>all of this over a gay little board no one cares about on an anime website
Great? Now where do I go if I want my daily dose of anonymous internet funposting, illegal spam, and j00sposting without names and avatars?
Guess I'm here now? Fine? But where's the better alternative? Because soyjak isn't it.

Who's to say 4chan won't just immediatly get taken back down by Sharty the moment it goes back up?

If the RapeApe email leaks are to be believed then they have an insider, which is going to make it difficult to just start anew.
Combined with the fact that they're going to have to patch the insecurities and possibly even move away from the Yotsuba software they've been running on since the site's inception, it's going to be a long arduous process, tedious, and expensive (for Hiro especially).
The site hasn't even been properly updated since moot left, which means they probably don't even have devs who understand the code as well as he does. They're probably going to lose a lot of their staff too, which is unfortunate because these are volunteers and not easily replaced for the cost of a few hot pockets.

 

[Happy Camper]

Who's to say 4chan won't just immediatly get taken back down by Sharty the moment it goes back up?

Very unlikely if they actually update their software and install some basic up-to-date office level countermeasures.
With Hiro, however, that's a rather big if.

 

[Hack for crack]

Wasn't the hacker 13? lol

People calling this dumb are wrong. I've personally seen skilled 12-13 year old hackers. Only a couple times, but they are out there. Usually their dads are in IT or something and teach them up when they're turbo young

 

[MoeAnonymous]

At least 4chan going down like this is funny, the slow death it was suffering before wasn't nice to look at

Cool. But where do we go now? What's the alternative?
It wasn't perfect, but what site is?

 

[Scuttlefuck]

Great? Now where do I go if I want my daily dose of anonymous internet funposting, illegal spam, and j00sposting without names and avatars?

This is the alternative, retard. This place is one of the few on the Internet even with paying attention to anymore. Agora road is okay too but dead as shit, but I go there for the occult discussion.

 

[Matty]

let's mix it up and say something on-topic

I just learned on fedi that one of the global jannies banned one of the fedi coomers for posting loli in /b/ (where loli is explicitly allowed)

I went looking for the janny who was most likely to be cruising /b/ looking for lolicon and what did I find but https://baraag.net/@HereticHesh (warning: loli/shota content)

apparently the tranny janny banning people for posting lolicon in /b/ is, in fact, a pedophile himself

Baraag has had issues with unmitigated CSAM spam in the past, so that's not surprising to me. I defederated them from my instance long ago; if you've been on the fediverse for any length of time, this sort of thing from Baraag users isn't exactly out of the ordinary.

 

[Fucker Carlson]

Okay, so let's say my password would be something like
"War and Peace, from the 222 page pick the first word with interpunction mark if any, do it for 20 next pages for 20 words total"
it would give 20 unrelated, randomly capitalized words with random special characters. Would it be good enough?

Password managers make me suspicious for some reason. What if you're stranded without one and need to login from some random cafe? You can google War and Peace everywhere.
What if FBI gets your password manager? Can't they just brute force the master password or crack the software?
What if your password manager gets corrupted by, say, a hard drive malfunction?
What's the advantage of using one instead of writing your passwords down (excluding the "FBI arrests you and your password notebook" whataboutism Null loves to answer that question with)?

Strong passwords/password managers don't make your account invincible. But they do increase the amount of time and effort needed to crack it, to the point where only a truly motivated attacker would be able to rationalize doing it.

Sort of like putting your car in the garage. Yeah, some fatass nigger could technically still get in there and steal it if he really wanted to, but that big door in the way is going to make it a lot harder.

 

[Helon]

At least 4chan going down like this is funny, the slow death it was suffering before wasn't nice to look at

And with all that happened on this side the last cry before it's death was.....a fucking chicken jockey.

 

[Hustlin' Thick]

Would it be good enough?

Yes.

What if you're stranded without one and need to login from some random cafe? You can google War and Peace everywhere.

I can't think of why you can't just bring your password database with you considering how easy it is. Also, you could use something like Bitwarden, which is an online service.

What if FBI gets your password manager? Can't they just brute force the master password or crack the software?

But instead of memorizing a lot of passwords you can just memorize a single one.

What if your password manager gets corrupted by, say, a hard drive malfunction?

Backups.

What's the advantage of using one instead of writing your passwords down (excluding the "FBI arrests you and your password notebook" whataboutism Null loves to answer that question with)?

Not much 2bh. Writing down passwords is fine.

 

[MoeAnonymous]

This is the alternative, retard.

Bro, how do I turn off names and avatars? Can I post without an account? Where's the images and reaction memes?
No offense, this place is for overlapping, but different audiences.
4chan has always been an anime website first and foremost. It slipped into being mostly known for political dumbfuckery, but that goes for just about anywhere on the world wide web these days.

 

[Three4Free]

even disregarding the posts. Just looking at what the people running it did over time. Having an "anonymous" image board. requires an email to post, blocks vpns. those two alone. maybe if it was one, but not the other, it would be reasonable. but together. To me that is just a bad sign.

Completely agree, which is why you had to be extremely careful about posting anything that could be deliberately misconstrued as a fedpost. But let's be honest: All of us, and I mean ALL of us, are on some type of list already. This is a consequence of living in a digital age that is completely dominated by malicious actors who view 99% of humanity as "cattle."

The risks, however, were worth it in a lot of ways.

I saw moments of sheer brilliance on that board that I had never witnessed anywhere else and will never witness again, and these are the things that I am lamenting at the moment.

We played the most epic game of Capture The Flag in human history with an unwilling participant named Shia LaBeouf. Anons were analyzing star charts and flight paths, for fuck's sake. The most advanced AI in the world simply cannot compete with that level of weaponized autism.

"Milk is racist" came from 4Chan.

We tricked feminists into "freebleeding" and walking around in public with period blood all over their pants just because we thought it would be funny. The fact that they actually fell for it was the cherry on top. The world will never see trolling like this ever again.

All of these moments will be lost in time.... like tears in rain.

 

[Pork Wellington]

This is the alternative, retard. This place is one of the few on the Internet even with paying attention to anymore. Agora road is okay too but dead as shit, but I go there for the occult discussion.

I'm new here - referred by someone who has been around a while. This place feels more like old m00t-era 4chan than any other site.
I can spazz out hardcore over fucking shit skins and sandal bombers, and see people with opposing political views calling each other faggots and niggers. No bans.
This place is the fucking best.

 

[Fucker Carlson]

Cool. But where do we go now? What's the alternative?
It wasn't perfect, but what site is?

This one, or 8chan, or some other image board that ends up being the same shit anyway.

 

[MoeAnonymous]

The worst part is that /a/ was the only place to freely discuss animu on the inter webs. I regularly look for alternative anime forums but there is just nothing as active or fun as /a/.

Welp.
Time to learn Japanese.

 

[Don Yagon]

If the RapeApe email leaks are to be believed then they have an insider, which is going to make it difficult to just start anew.

He basically gave a "go ahead" to potential leakers since the message itself didn't contain any info that wasn't public knowledge at that point anyway.

Combined with the fact that they're going to have to patch the insecurities and possibly even move away from the Yotsuba software they've been running on since the site's inception, it's going to be a long arduous process, tedious, and expensive (for Hiro especially).

Eh, installing a copy of vichan takes a couple minutes, making scripts for importing all the data (posts, bans, etc.) should take a day or two for an experienced dev (not accounting for running those scripts; homepage claimed about ~1 terabyte of active content and 99% of that would be atachments that could just be copied over). The biggest hurdle would be porting datamining suites and captcha humiliation rituals.

 

[Storytime]

Completely agree, which is why you had to be extremely careful about posting anything that could be deliberately misconstrued as a fedpost. But let's be honest: All of us, and I mean ALL of us, are on some type of list already. This is a consequence of living in a digital age that is completely dominated by malicious actors who view 99% of humanity as "cattle."

The risks, however, were worth it in a lot of ways.

I saw moments of sheer brilliance on that board that I had never witnessed anywhere else and will never witness again, and these are the things that I am lamenting at the moment.

We played the most epic game of Capture The Flag in human history with an unwilling participant named Shia LaBeouf. Anons were analyzing star charts and flight paths, for fuck's sake. The most advanced AI in the world simply cannot compete with that level of weaponized autism.

"Milk is racist" came from 4Chan.

We tricked feminists into "freebleeding" and walking around in public with period blood all over their pants just because we thought it would be funny. The fact that they actually fell for it was the cherry on top. The world will never see trolling like this ever again.

All of these moments will be lost in time.... like tears in rain.

This is cringy as fuck dude