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4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by GaggiX »

LightBug1 wrote: post #22
GaggiX wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think that 4chan is going to disappear forever for this? Just wait a bit and it will be back. Also where did you see that they are leaking home addresses and work contact info? I think they just leaked the emails (I don't understand why home addresses and work contact info should be present in the 4chan database, everyone moderating the site for free).

I'm not up to speed - but isn't that a free-speech absolutist site?

Every website that allows content uploaded by users have moderators, you can be absolutist as you want but you can't allow CP for example, you also need to handle DMCA (unless you live in a country that couldn't care less).

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by ltbarcly3 »

LightBug1 wrote: post #22
GaggiX wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think that 4chan is going to disappear forever for this? Just wait a bit and it will be back. Also where did you see that they are leaking home addresses and work contact info? I think they just leaked the emails (I don't understand why home addresses and work contact info should be present in the 4chan database, everyone moderating the site for free).

I'm not up to speed - but isn't that a free-speech absolutist site?

No, it's mostly a cancer survivors support group. Every third post was about cancer, what is causing it, and frank expressions of helplessness in the face of it.

About half the posts were pornography, racist rants, or memes making fun of someone, often for being mentally handicapped.

Five percent was accusing the moderators of sleeping on the job.

Edit: I love that people are down-voting this, it really shows how much people like to have an opinion even while they can't recognize even the most obvious things that requires any information about the subject.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by no_time »

delusional wrote: post #28
geriatric-janny wrote: post #15

My official association with 4chan ended in 2010, but I still recognise a good third of those names and would wager the leak is legit.

What kind of official association could one have with 4chan? 4chan was formative for my early connection to the internet, and I'm really curious what the organization behind it looked like. Was it professionally driven, or just some random guy mailing checks? stuff like that.

Well... A full dump of the board exclusive to moderators and janitors was leaked too so now you could take a look yourself.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by morkalork »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #26
knowknow wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it considered part of it? From my understanding, the culture has changed significantly and post get auto deleted eventually, so it’s not a good archive either. The only thing old about it is it’s web design

Posts always got auto deleted. Maybe you aren't familiar with how it worked.

I haven't been there in like a decade but if nobody bumps your thread eventually your post falls off the last page and gets deleted no?

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by ArinaS »

vlovich123 wrote: post #27
idiotsecant wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like it or not, 4chan was a major hub of Internet culture. Especially early on some of the best stuff on the internet happened on 4chan (and a good chunk of the worst, of course)

4chan was founded in 2003. I think reasonable people probably disagree on what constitutes the “early” internet and this is where the argument is. Google had been around for 5 years by this point and I (and I suspect many others) remained blissfully unaware of 4chan for a long time after 2003.

I think anything before Frutiger Aero became popular (and it didn't in 2003) can be considered "early" Internet.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by a0123 »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #2

If you lamented the disappearance of the "old internet", well, this was a part of it, and now it may be gone too. The title is also a fair bit understated. They're leaking the moderators home addresses and work contact info (for admins, who are(were?) paid moderators)

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Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by morkalork »

pjc50 wrote: post #16
robobro wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The initial leaker is most likely not the same parties as the ones tying email addresses and usernames to people's "real identities", if you look at the thread where the leak was announced. Say what you will about 4chan but I am concerned for the team managing it - them and their close ones are certainly going to be exposed to a whole lot of viciousness soon :(

> them and their close ones are certainly going to be exposed to a whole lot of viciousness soon Isn't viciousness the notorious bread and butter of 4chan?

Live by the sword, die by the sword I would say. You don't get to enjoy raising leopards and also get to be surprised when you become lunch one day
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