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Will the 4chan hack be the end of it?

  • Yes, goodbye forever 4chan

    Votes: 1,031 18.5%
  • No, they will rise from the ashes, stronger than ever

    Votes: 343 6.2%
  • This will rattle them but it will be forgotten about next week

    Votes: 2,322 41.6%
  • I am just here for the janny phonebooking

    Votes: 1,093 19.6%
  • What the fuck is 4chan

    Votes: 218 3.9%
  • Yotsuba&!

    Votes: 569 10.2%

  • Total voters
    5,576
I realize that the ".gov" email address thing is ultimately debunked but would feds or whoever have legit used their .gov email addresses to begin with? One would make the basic assumption that if they were indeed all over the site etc they would at the very least have just made a free burner, right?
 
There was a setuid binary called /usr/local/bin/suid_run_global which simply execves a perl script. Said perl script was writable by www so it could be hijacked to acquire a shell.
Ah fuck that's a really trivial mistake.
If you're the real guy behind it I hope you're using a burner email lol
 
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it wasn't escalating to root though, it was escalating to user named "global" (it was mentioned in a sharty post, and the filename)
I guess that user could have been a sudoer... (if such a concept exists in BSD)
I'm not familiar with the setup but 8chan had multiple servers. Some boards were served by some, some by others, and there was a large storage server for images.

I wouldn't be surprised if "global" was a user who had ssh keys that allowed access to the other boxes, but this is speculation.
 
I know, right? When I heard 4chan got taken down by "PDF files with AIDS" I had no idea whether the site had been compromised by a malformed multimedia document or had been attacked by homosexual child molesters
Porque no los dos?
 
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>da big scary 4chan leak
>it's only around 200MB


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that doesn't account for the level of spam on that site. Have you seen /pol/ lately? There are multiple datacenters working on that
they aren't just making nonsense posts, they're fomenting consensus and shit. This is extremely effective amongst modern internet users. It's especially effective on Reddit users
Over the years this has been going on but there is a reason GIYUS and USHMM got called off as far as 4chan goes. Yes those are two Jewish organizations ("non-profits") that posted from like 2010 to 2016. When people notice consensus cracking usually it causes them to really dig into the subject matter or become averse to it. My example led to what I witnessed as many many people who previously never cared about the holocaust becoming avowed or passive holocaust deniers due to the insistent shilling by those two organizations.

What I'm saying is, Redditors are literally inhuman levels of dumb and most people are turned off by the type of shilling that goes on on the internet aka lemming corralling.
 
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made an account here because I need my online interaction
Go outside, also you need to be 18 to post here.
and now there are way to many third worlders to create an online "community".
No, there are too many indians, most third worlders don't speak english and the ones that do tend to be educated/middle class. The ones shitting up the place are indians because even the poorest ranjeet knows enough bitch lasagna-english to login to plebbit or some other site and turn it into a designated shitting street.

Its the same thing in Europe: is not "third worlders" raping women and running over people, its muslims, just muslims.
 
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That was my first though too. I probably haven't been on there since the Obama Administration though so I figured maybe it was no longer a thing.
There were two tiers of moderation on 4chan. Despite mods being called "jannies" everywhere, jannies were the lowest tier. The worst they could do was throw out those 72 hours everyone caught a bunch of because some fat fuck somewhere got mad. Those were unappealable so this was what you got when you didn't break any actual rule but some cock-chopped tranny lost his shit at something you said.

For anything more, they had to flag the post to an actual mod. The mod could do anything up to permabans or even permabans of everyone on the thread. At one point, the mods were more sane than the jannies, but eventually these were the lunatics permabanning people for making on-topic posts while letting schizoposters go berserk.

And then there were the admins, people who actually ran the site. And look what fucking idiots they were, running ancient goatseware because they were too incompetent to update anything.
 
I realize that the ".gov" email address thing is ultimately debunked but would feds or whoever have legit used their .gov email addresses to begin with? One would make the basic assumption that if they were indeed all over the site etc they would at the very least have just made a free burner, right?
That has happened on other sites for sure but what that one trust me bro said is true. They had a reporting pipeline and likely the administrator/mods have a list of emails for point-of-contact with relevant national LEOs but that's the extent tbh. Oh and whoever they have for legal counsel. I assume 4chan has a retainer or two.
 
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The absolute state of the 4chan backend is just turbo laziness. There's no good excuse. "We're too scared to do anything, so we did nothing". Somehow they're able to fuck around with CAPTCHA and 4chan passes though.
 
Hey faggots,
my name is Russell and I hate every single one of you pathetic "soyteens". I heard about you fαggots on tiktok and just wanted stop by and say GO OUTSIDE.

Nice try with that 4chan hack btw, you guys will be so fucked when you pathetic hackers get owned . Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any pussy?

I played midfield in high school for our lacrosse team and played as a running back on our football team. I bet you fat fags don't even play sports other than competitive dick sucking.

I also get straight A's, and have a fucking fine girlfriend (She just blew me; shit was SO lit).

You are all faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.

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But you agree that it's lame and nothing of note really happens anymore? I like 4chan. I've posted there for nearly 20 years now, there's some excellent discussions to be had on smaller boards especially on niche topics that you'll be hard pressed to have elsewhere without wading through some circlejerk on discord or whatever.

But at the same time there's hardly a sense of community and culture anymore and this is amplified by the fact every other fucking thread is a twitter screencap.
4chan doesn't create culture, it subsumes it.
>But you agree that it's lame and nothing of note really happens anymore? I like 4chan. I've posted there for nearly 20 years now, there's some excellent discussions to be had on smaller boards especially on niche topics that you'll be hard pressed to have elsewhere without wading through some circlejerk on discord or whatever.

i spent like a hour making a very dumb response to this my only real argument is I don't think it matters if it makes internet wide culture anymore since 8Chan never did anything that mattered except provide a good space for discussion with non faggy nigger moderation before and after the 3 mass shootings (2 in FPS mode Thanks FaceBook! Thanks Twitch!) and now they are on a roll since 4Chan went into a coma 4chan’s problem isn’t irrelevance; it’s moderation rot. If they gutted the current mod and Janny crew permanently banning the lot and replaced them with people who’d crack down on Bait/ the same copy pasta and image shit after a month/ blatant filter dodging threads/ Lee/ etc. the site’s quality would spike. Boards would feel alive again, not like a tired loop of the same memes and trolls.

>But at the same time there's hardly a sense of community and culture anymore and this is amplified by the fact every other fucking thread is a twitter screencap.
this is only true because of the jannies who wont act on reports this can be easily fixed its just a question of if they will
 
The absolute state of the 4chan backend is just turbo laziness. There's no good excuse. "We're too scared to do anything, so we did nothing". Somehow they're able to fuck around with CAPTCHA and 4chan passes though.
I won't be surprised if there's code that's never been modified since thatdog translated Futaba into English.
 
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