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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
Here is a picture of all the 4chan janny phonebooks collected so far.

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There was some pretty cool usages too. There was a lot of trading of ebooks although a lot of that moved to Bookchan on AnonIB (which was a poorly run shithole that was like 95% revenge porn). Still have a bunch of ebooks left from that shit but of course pedophiles ruin everything.
I got some good ebooks through there too, found a copy of Enemy Mine on there. I saw the movie as a kid and couldn't remember the name. I used to have some nice high resolution art scans there too, but lost it in a hard drive crash. But yeah, you basically stuck to boards like that on AnonIB. Otherwise it was just porn shit or CP.
 
Did you know pedophiles could merge files with images, like Zip files containing CSAM. Those 10 Mb prdobear pictures isn't just for show, opening the image with 7zip gets to file contents. It's not a joke anymore.
They started stripping video title metadata out of webms because people would embed links to CSAM in them. Sucks, it was a good way to embed source information in the file.
 
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That said there are more modern methods of stenography
they're getting a lot crazier right now because there's an arms race between Big Tech and artists over AI. So far I've seen programs that will use noise to make AI think an image of a cat is an image of a boat or similar and completely fuck any Stable Diffusion model that tries to train itself on the image. I've also seen programs that do the same thing to audio files. One in particular was able to alter an eagle call such that, if played back, it would command Alexa to unlock all the doors in your house while being totally undetectable to human ears
 
4chan was running FreeBSD 10.1, which hit end of life (no more security patches) December 31, 2016. The 10 branch (spanning 10.0-10.4) was EOL Oct 31, 2018. https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported/

That's for the base OS and packages, and appears completely irrelevant for this exploit. They were using a Ghostscript PDF renderer from 2012, which is a famously buggy pile of shit: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=ghostscript

PDF is a very complex file format, and exploiting bugs in it has been a weapon of choice for hacking campaigns since the early 2000s. The attacker didn't even need to find a new bug, just browse the list of dozens of past exploits and pick one to use. The same technique is often used in console hacking, where they have ancient browser versions with dozens of exploits to choose from.
Sony uses FreeBSD for their Playstation consoles.
Considering that FreeBSD is an Operating System, it was probably very easy to update it.
From how old their version of FreeBSD was, it was probably similar to it running on Windows Vista or Windows 8.
Also,
why on earth were 4cuck servers running on a literal-who OS instead of Windows or Linux?
 

Were any jannies feds?​

Rumors that .gov email addresses were used have been debunked by the hacker. However, many jannies did use .edu email addresses.
There were only three .edu emails in the leak; I think "three" can be stated for clarity instead of "many," even though the fact that jannies did use their .edu emails is pretty retarded tbdesu.
Also the highlight to reply/quote is broken for long posts.
 
can you please fucking add a bottomless mode to the site with auto updates it would make this site 10x more useable
A user here already created a userscript that does that (works on mobile browsers too)
 
@Null can you please fucking add a bottomless mode to the site with auto updates it would make this site 10x more useable
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Nigger, you want to subject people to scrolling through 16,440+ posts in a single page instead of a digestible 20 posts per page? This isn't 4chan. Take a page from your brethren:

We're guests here. Stop shitting on the floor.
 
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