Plagued 4chan - the Internet hate machine

[SIMON THE PIEMAN]

I once set out to implement filters on /v/ that would block most spam, template and low-effort threads. Once I was done every time I would visit there would be at least 60-70 threads caught in a filter and whatever was left was still mostly garbage.
Filtering on /v/ is so rampant that even the most spergy trolls know about it, which is why some of them make an active effort to dodge these filters, usually by slightly changing the image they're posting. This is also done to avoid someone checking the archives for reposts, because whenever these people are caught it always shows dozens or even hundreds of similar threads made every single day, sometimes multiple times per one day.
Imagine your life being so devoid of entertainment and stimulation that posting this kind of a thread is the highlight of your day and you're doing it on a board dedicated to things that aim to solve the exact problem you're having. The sequence of events that leads to this behavior being internalized as something worthwhile must be fascinating.

 

[kimure999]

>site is still not hacked again
hmmm,what might be the reason?
1. they somehow managed to patch the security holes which i doubt since the site came back online too quickly
2. people(who would want to and can hack the site) are simply not interested anymore
3. the first hack was not organic and had a specific purpose
4. it's all fucking gay,the site should be dead anyway

 

[4chanJanitorDefenseForce]

>site is still not hacked again
hmmm,what might be the reason?
1. they somehow managed to patch the security holes which i doubt since the site came back online too quickly
2. people(who would want to and can hack the site) are simply not interested anymore
3. the first hack was not organic and had a specific purpose
4. it's all fucking gay,the site should be dead anyway

A good chunk of the hole that was exploited probably was remedied by upgrading the software.

 

[Otri]

>site is still not hacked again
hmmm,what might be the reason?
1. they somehow managed to patch the security holes which i doubt since the site came back online too quickly
2. people(who would want to and can hack the site) are simply not interested anymore
3. the first hack was not organic and had a specific purpose
4. it's all fucking gay,the site should be dead anyway

Something WILL happen eventually

 

[Shitoko]

idk

 

[Incorrigible Bigotry]

Something WILL happen eventually

If you would please turn your attention to the whiteboard...

 

[Lovely Kin]

>site is still not hacked again
hmmm,what might be the reason?
1. they somehow managed to patch the security holes which i doubt since the site came back online too quickly
2. people(who would want to and can hack the site) are simply not interested anymore
3. the first hack was not organic and had a specific purpose
4. it's all fucking gay,the site should be dead anyway

The website is not interesting enough to hack, and the website is much slower than it once was as a few masochists returned to it

A good chunk of the hole that was exploited probably was remedied by upgrading the software.

Nah, they just put tape over the hole and called it a day.

 

[Otri]

They should just pay some guy to rewrite the IB software from scratch, the pass sales are probably pretty high due to the countdown and the bootlickers

 

[gay porn is the best porn]

>site is still not hacked again
hmmm,what might be the reason?
1. they somehow managed to patch the security holes which i doubt since the site came back online too quickly
2. people(who would want to and can hack the site) are simply not interested anymore
3. the first hack was not organic and had a specific purpose
4. it's all fucking gay,the site should be dead anyway

They rushed to fix the immediate issues with the site and plan on fully upgrading it later. They went down this path because even after what was it 1-2 weeks down they lost 1/3 of their userbase? if they took their time and fixed and updated everything it would've kept them down for longer allowing the altchans to better establish themselves meaning less VIPfag money for 4chan.

 

[4chanJanitorDefenseForce]

Hacks require specific conditions, and that PDF hack is currently unusable. If there are others, it's going to require figuring out exactly what build of the (hopefully current) FreeBSD system they use as well as exactly what build of PHP, among others. Most fingerprinting stuff is vague enough so you don't know what exact build software is, just the basic version number.
It's not like on TV, where you can hack an encrypted Apple Newton by giving it a gigabyte of RAM.

 

[A16]

plan on fully upgrading it later.

They're only going to bandaid again after the next hack. No plans for development before then.

 

[Waffle Iron]

They "fixed" the site by getting a dev to crudely cut out the entry point of the attack (and flash). The rest of the site is still running on outdated code. Anyone that cares enough to hack 4chan would just have to look up what vulnerabilities have been found since then. It also took them 2 weeks to get a guy to do their his. They don't seem to have a decent programming team. I'm honestly surprised they went ahead and just relaunched 4chan in its current state. Hiroshima probably screamed at them to get free money mine running again and the few remaining jannies needed another taste of power quick lest they decided to run for it.

I think the biggest layer of defense 4chan has is that most people dont care enough to hack it.

 

[Grog]

If someone is planning to hack 4chan again he should wait enough time so that there is a new contingent of jannies to dox.

 

[CEO of Autism]

Filtering on /v/ is so rampant that even the most spergy trolls know about it, which is why some of them make an active effort to dodge these filters, usually by slightly changing the image they're posting. This is also done to avoid someone checking the archives for reposts, because whenever these people are caught it always shows dozens or even hundreds of similar threads made every single day, sometimes multiple times per one day.

Crustposting on /tv/ is like this, every time they post about it, the image has a changed MD5, changed file size, changed dimensions, text never alluding to any keywords. It's all so tiresome.

 

[Second Alter Ego]

I still haven't come back since the hack. My dying wish is that pilot leaf continues trolling thousands of niggers per day on his 15 different homeboards and pretending he's his own wife. Go on without me.... faggot... leaf...


Edit
Search for "pilot leaf" zero results found
Wait a minute what the fuck...
You guys have never heard of pilot leaf? In the 4chan thread? Holy fuck the man is an autistic legend
No other schizo can match his postcount per day
He starts like 5 threads per board every hour and keeps all the tabs open responding in all of them at once
He doesn't even namefag he can be identified solely by his larps and image choices
For years he has had this soap opera thing going across a bunch of boards where he roleplays as his naive and trusting italian wife getting emotionally abused by him, a cassanova type canadian pilot who cheats on her with whores he finds during his exciting and well paying job, the plot is dramatic and hilarious and he suckers in 90% of retards who stumble across his threads
Some speculate he is actually a group of coordinated shitposters but it's just too consistent and unique for that
He will switch up who he is in the same thread so he's responding to himself as his "wife" and all the casual posters aren't around 4chan enough to pick up on his pattern or who he is, they get trolled into a frothing rage erry time
Fucking legend

 

[StacticShock]

Fucking legend

you do know that jannies allow this type of faggotry to happen, right?
but lord help you if you try to stay consistent on the thread of the board you are retarded enough to go back to = 3 day ban.

 

[Storytime]

I still haven't come back since the hack.

me neither there's no fucking point

 

[A16]

They "fixed" the site by getting a dev to crudely cut out the entry point of the attack (and flash). The rest of the site is still running on outdated code. Anyone that cares enough to hack 4chan would just have to look up what vulnerabilities have been found since then. It also took them 2 weeks to get a guy to do their his. They don't seem to have a decent programming team.

The fix was so shitty it's surprising it wasn't back up within 24-48 hours like the other outages that occurred previously and were probably more bandaids to something breaking. Then they could've saved the 40% of the userbase they lost.

A lot of the early days were probably wasted about panicking over being doxxed and other crisis management stuff (raising janny morale and waiting for Hiro to email back).

The hacker was very considerate to release their attack vector and every step they did the very night of the hack so in retrospect it should've been a lot easier to apply the band-aid and get the site back online much sooner.

Imagine if the hacker just silently dumped the data. Those idiots may have never figured out what happened and the site may very well still be offline now in fear of it happening again. On the positive side in this scenario they'd be forced to make a new codebase and would be much better off in the long-run, except for Hiro having to shell out for a competent dev.

 

[mentally retarded user]

Spoiler: nsfw

 

[Storytime]

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