Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[manlikebigp]

Christopher Poole, aka moot, has just uploaded a youtube video in which he describes his desire to reacquire and revive 4chan.

 

[ImagineBeingChris]

You love blaming zoomers, millenials are the real problem they're bad parents and bad teachers. We're just starting out and already being judged hard.

I am a zoomer bruh

 

[Betonhaus]

 

[skibidis toilets]

I can't live without 4chan and im a old (201, what do? Will it really take over a month for the site to come back up.

 

[HowlingChasm]

You love blaming zoomers, millenials are the real problem they're bad parents and bad teachers. We're just starting out and already being judged hard.

Nigga, my daughter is 3. We're out catching bugs and singing ABCs. What do you want from me?

 

[Pointless Debater]

I can go with the occams razor idea of "it's just that nobody bothered to try" but I'm really liking the schizo theory that this is just the first 4chan hack like this that we've heard about, and various shades of THEM! have done this before and were more subtle about what they did or who they contacted with the info gathered.

4chan isn't as popular as it used to be. Sure, it still gets (from estimates I see online) around 20 million unique visitors a month, but it doesn't have the popularity it once did nor is it as much of the center of internet culture as it used to be.

It's certainly not the first time someone tried to hack it, or the first time someone succeeded (someone got some of the PHP source code for the site circa 2014).

4chan has also used Cloudflare as its CDN for a number of years, which can offer protections sitting in the middle of the site server and the end user, such as web application firewall rules (WAF) that match patterns of known malicious traffic. (WAF rules can effectively stop a lot of exploit attempts before they reach servers - they were a popular mitigation step as the log4j vulnerabilities broke on the internet and internet sites scrambled to patch tons of services).

This exploit was a little unusual in that most boards on 4chan don't permit the upload of PDFs, but a few do. What actually exploited the site here wasn't really a PDF as the hacker explained - 4chan used a version of the Ghostscript library from 2012 that didn't have proper input validation (it didn't validate what it was being given was a PDF) and instead they uploaded a file with PostScript commands and gave it a bogus PDF file extension. Those PostScript combined with the ancient Ghostscript library allowed running of commands. From there, they had a binary (executable) with bad permissions on the OS level that gave them a path to root (*NIX operating system administrator) and you have your run of the castle.

Still, the idea that someone breached into 4chan years ago and just lurked silently is far from implausible. We're talking about a site administration that had software versions of their backend on end of life vulnerable versions for nearly a decade. The idea that a hacker that did not want to be as disruptive/noisy/loud as possible going and and being unnoticed is completely plausible. If someone didn't want to call the janitors soy or max out the CPU mining Bitcoin or whatever, it's entirely possible they sat there quietly for years doing god knows what (most likely exfiltrating data).

 

[Großmann]

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During my years on /r9k/, I saw barely any of these tranny threads, although I did see them. It was mostly a variety board. Surprisingly, there was more transphobia on /r9k/ than troonslop.
Most posts I saw on /r9k/ were posts by chudcels and etc. I would sometimes vent on /r9k/ when Im not shitposting.
Funny thing about websites is that if there are no rules, its an anarchaic RW shithole. But if theres only 1 singular rule, then it becomes an tranny shithole like r/196 or /r9k/

You clearly missed the pinkpill years if you barely saw tranny threads.

 

[Fae Supremacist]

what do?

Go outside, court a woman, and have sex.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Go outside, court a woman, and have sex.
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Abe really tried his hardest, may he rest in peace.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Had a nightmare last night that 4chan was already up and you now need a phone number to post

then your phone's unable to post because the cell tower has an ip range ban

 

[𒀭Δημιουργός χάος]

Are there any new leaks? Damn this thread is moving faster and faster.

 

[Accept Some Substitutes]

Remember that if 4chan dies for good, the schizos will look for another platform
In fact, some of them are already here

 

[Pointless Debater]

Is there a specific reason why the 4chan admins aren’t giving a timeline as to when the site will be so back lol

They have no idea when the site is going to be restored. Your house doesn't burn down in a fire and you go "it'll be rebuilt in a month". You do your insurance claims, you find out if the foundation is fucked, water is contaminated, availability of a construction crew, are you rebuilding it in the same way or making changes, etc...

They have to take inventory on reinstalling servers, moving data over, are they even going to retain the existing site software, what backend software/libraries have to be updated, what the steps are and required changes and testing, what required changes to the site source code are (to minimally make it work, and then to make sure it isn't vulnerable to hackers), etc...

Unless they're going to just set up new board software, if they do this properly it's a multi-week endeavor.

 

[23iwakura23]

I can go with the occams razor idea of "it's just that nobody bothered to try" but I'm really liking the schizo theory that this is just the first 4chan hack like this that we've heard about, and various shades of THEM! have done this before and were more subtle about what they did or who they contacted with the info gathered.
I'm pretty sure I remember when pdf support first was rolled out a lot of chatter of "lol how many seconds until this goes badly" because of how notorious pdfs are about security.
So the idea that NOBODY tried this seems really really unlikely for me.

There's a guy on ycombinator that claims he proved RCE doing something with EXIF years ago, but basically fucked off and said nothing about it and didn't use it to gain access. Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698499

 

[Fag Alert Major Fag Alert]

The /vt/ trannyjanny who was encouraging hatred of men, encouraging hating animu streamers who collabed with men and encouraged watching only "cute girls doing cute things".

This is why their Twitter is also private. Dude is beyond toast. They are probably going to call the guy's parents and remove his internet Privileges. Even if bro retires from the 4Chan life. It will haunt that dude for the rest of his gay life.

 

[iluvatar]

Go outside, court a woman, and have sex.
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What if. God forbid. Tou browse 4chin and you're alredy married with kids

 

[Only Lonely Soldier]

i can't wait for the itsukarine threads on /ic/

 

[Internet May Be Gay]

.moe isn't, but the /v/ janny keeps threadlocking my threads and should be raped by a pack of feral niggers.

i guess i just grew out of /v/ideo gays and dont have much to say about them anymore. i dont play any, and havent in like 6 or 7 years.

always chapped my ass /mu/ never really had a hardware production general or eurorack general.

 

[burусhU1О]

What if. God forbid. Tou browse 4chin and you're alredy married with kids

Pic related should be a comprehensive guide to your situation.

 

[ZatLit]

The consensus I've gotten from this thread is that everyone from every board hates the jannies and mods. It's universal animosity. Yet RapeApe is saying flowery shit like 'I love all my staff and they do such a good job.' If they're doing such a good job, how come everyone fucking hates them and wants them gone?

That's because most if not all of them are powertripping faggots that don't even bother with moving posts anymore, I haven't seen a moved post from a board to another in MONTHS, most of the time the janny/mod will simply delete your post and put a ban on you for offtopic, even if you misclicked a board to post in.
And how certain mods defend certain users in certain boards, the Baskin Roberts shit on /tv/ or Kanji/Necanon on /toy/, mods actively BAN you if you say something about certain fucks under their wings.
Regarding true SHITposts, they do nothing, /v/ is the main example, that board is 99% shitposts and I'm sure the mods participate on it too, same with /co/
Regarding /pw/ pigwheels has been shitting on the board for years, they do nothing about it, but if you mention Trump despite him being related to WWE you get a 3 day ban.
Most if not all jannies are insufferable mutts.
But that doesn't change the fact that this place is WORSE, because it has become @Null 's cocksucking club, updoots and everything, this place is closer than reddit than /co/ to tumblr due to a system of validation, the more you cocksuck the echochamber the better updoots you get
>BUT ITS NOT REDDIT ITS JUST EMOJIS!
Sure faggot with a "positive reaction redditometer" included in this site.
That's why KF even at its best will never reach 4chan's heels, because even with an entire pack of trannies in charge abusing their power, they didn't include an updoots/validation/echochamber option there, this place is edgier reddit, doesn't matter if you accept it or not.
For the record Null bans me from participating in certain threads despite me not even breaking rules, took my chat option despite me not breaking rules, all because he's as much of a cuck as any troon in 4jannies list.
I said that flutter is hot, boom , ban thread, whcih rule I broke faggot? show me.
Fuck jannies, and also fuck this cocksucker here

Are there alternatives to 4chan?​

The Kiwi Farms has several analogues to 4chan boards and communities

trying to advertise this place as a 4chan alternative. As long as Josh behaves like a bitch, you'll always be in 4chan's shadow.
Fuck every single jannie in the list, and I'll gladly spam their names once the site is back, but accept the fact that KF is as much of a pozzed site if not worse than 4chan. Now keep patting their own backs with updoots and downdooots.