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Re: 4chan Intrusion Postmorterm

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post #34
post #26

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This is the first .newlongwordtld domain I've seen that isn't a spam site squatting on a popular domain equivalent. A new era has begun

Yeah, only because .is domains were being compromised and a new TLD was chosen as an easy alternative.

>.is domains were being compromised

Can you elaborate?

Re: 4chan Intrusion Postmorterm

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post #34

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Yeah, only because .is domains were being compromised and a new TLD was chosen as an easy alternative.

>.is domains were being compromised Can you elaborate?

http://blog.archive.today/post/82775187091/curious-why-the-m...

Re: 4chan Intrusion Postmorterm

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post #42

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>.is domains were being compromised Can you elaborate?

http://blog.archive.today/post/82775187091/curious-why-the-m...

> Content Blocked (content_filter_denied)

> Content Category: "Proxy Avoidance"

Another day, another block at $employer. Curiously, web.archive.org is allowed.

Thanks for the link.

Re: 4chan Intrusion Postmorterm

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post #36

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In this case the user who gained access to the database was seen as doing it for a reasonably "noble" reason, relatively speaking (to find information about another user whom some disliked), so from what I can see there hasn't been much backlash against him even though his full name was posted in a few places. It was kind of a self-hack.

Please don't miscontrue the person's intentions as noble, or even put that word in the same paragraph as 4chan. It was misogynistic, sexist harrassment.

I did say "relatively speaking." I wasn't making a judgment as to whether it was moral or immoral, just that 4chan as a whole mostly saw it as reasonable, which is why most of them found the intrusion humorous instead of an affront.

This is in stark contrast to when UG Nazi hacked 4chan a while ago by hijacking Cloudflare's CEO's Gmail and pointing 4chan.org's A record at their own server.

Re: 4chan Intrusion Postmorterm

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post #32

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4chan gets a lot of of traffic and is well-known so I think anything they use gets a boost in popularity :)

Eh, Stripe has way larger/more high profile customers than us, but yes we've been very happy with them.

While that is true I think you might have more impact than you realise :)
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