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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 912 18.2%

  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 256 5.1%

  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,143 42.8%

  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,018 20.3%

  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 181 3.6%

  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 498 9.9%
  • Total voters
    5,008
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mikumikumikumiku said:
can someone explain to a retard (me) what it means when the Shell was hacked? Is it really fucking over?
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root is the core level administrator on a server. getting access to root means you can do anything to a device, or access anything on it.

really what happens after this point is determined by what contingency plans they have in place. it's possible they don't keep running backups, have no way to reformat the device, and can't restore the site without resetting it from scratch or some shit.
 
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JunkFunkOCrunk said:
Guess I'll just have to move the steamchart threads here...
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When I first heard of the hack and reached out to a friend on the mod team, i thought for sure there was no way in hell they wouldn't have backups.

But considering the level of access our hacker friend had, and the fact they still use
  • MySQL (guarantee it's ancient version too, have fun fellas)
  • phpMyAdmin
  • ancient version of freebsd
im pretty sure their backups aren't even offsite. It's clear the level of competency behind the scenes is near zero.

also to whoever was suggesting /b/ is an unmoderated glowie csam honeypot - no. Reports for Global Rule 1 get flagged specially in the report queue, and do go to the /b/ queue first (which has no jannies). Reported enough, and it climbs to the global queue - where every janny sees it at the top of thier queue and any janny can action it.

If a janny files a ban request for global rule 1 us law, it raises to the top of the mod queue to be actioned immediately. If a mod then issues a ban, there's some flow where the information attached to the ban (inc the post, ip etc) gets forwarded to the FBI.

There are no law enforcement (that im aware of) moderating 4chan (or even with the power to do so). But there is an automated workflow to snitch GR1 bans to the glowies.
 
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Null said:
root is the core level administrator on a server. getting access to root means you can do anything to a device, or access anything on it.

really what happens after this point is determined by what contingency plans they have in place. it's possible they don't keep running backups, have no way to reformat the device, and can't restore the site without resetting it from scratch or some shit.
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null is so nice to za new friend
 
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Null said:
root is the core level administrator on a server. getting access to root means you can do anything to a device, or access anything on it.

really what happens after this point is determined by what contingency plans they have in place. it's possible they don't keep running backups, have no way to reformat the device, and can't restore the site without resetting it from scratch or some shit.
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So, its game over?
 
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