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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 sznio »

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?

depends on the board you're browsing, if you're discussing gardening you won't have issues with the far-right

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Post by rob »

vlovich123 wrote: post #46
ArinaS wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I hope you realize the irony of picking an arbitrary OS theme, something that has no correlation to the Internet in any way, as a meaningful point in the history of the Internet. As I said it’s all arbitrary. I might pick the time around Google’s founding as the early Internet, others might pick Yahoo, others might pick anything before eternal September.

You're trying to argue that 2003 isn't the early Internet. Seems like you're trying to have your "Ackchyually..." moment right now because you didn't know 4chan existed.

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Post by VectorLock »

jmyeet wrote: post #42

4chan will be studied for years for its role in alt-right radicalization as well as being a baroemeter for young male discontent. For example, QAnon started on 4chan (I believe as a joke?) [1]. Nowadays a lot of 4chan users and traffic have since migrated to Twitter for pretty obvious reasons. Pseudo-intellectual racism has a lot of roots in 4chan (eg the popularity of Julius Evola [2]) that's deeply tied to "trad" c…

I would be 0% surprised to see Stephen Miller's information in this leak.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by a0123 »

robobro wrote: post #6
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)

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 :(

Damn, the culture they have bred and actively maintained is now going to be turned against them?

It might end up making them more sympathetic people on the long term. They might realise the seriousness of what they have done to others.

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Post by giraffe_lady »

krige wrote: post #43
pjc50 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Always curious to know what kind of speech this kind of complaint refers to.

Free. In practice whatever a given janny doesn't like gets the boot. The moderation can get REALLY schizophrenic depending on time zone, and there are persistent rumors that certain boards are controlled by groups of interest (notably the cesspool known as /pol/ is very astroturfed).

Free isn't a kind of speech, it describes a condition under which speech is performed. Their question was what kind of speech is being alluded to.

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Post by Macha »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #25
jsheard wrote: post #11

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I was kinda surprised to see that phpMyAdmin is still maintained, albeit only barely. The last release was in January but before that it hadn't been touched for over two years.

This stuff is still packaged with cPanel, which is probably the most common way to manage web servers on the internet.

I wonder how long it's been since that was true. I think that era passed when most small businesses and individuals moved from self hosting to SaaS.

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Post by kotaKat »

krige wrote: post #43
pjc50 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Always curious to know what kind of speech this kind of complaint refers to.

Free. In practice whatever a given janny doesn't like gets the boot. The moderation can get REALLY schizophrenic depending on time zone, and there are persistent rumors that certain boards are controlled by groups of interest (notably the cesspool known as /pol/ is very astroturfed).

There's also a "janitortest" account in the leaked list @4chan.org so who knows if there was just a shared password flying around...

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by geriatric-janny »

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.

I lied about my age and was given janitor access in the mid 2000s. There was a special /j/ board to coordinate on, but it broke relatively early, and you mostly had to hang out in the #janiteam channel on Rizon. I think almost everybody else was underage as well. There was a minimal web overlay that let you delete/escalate posts. You couldn't see people's IPs, but you could see how many outstanding ban requests they had. These numbers helped me deduce that many boards' most infamous personalities were all the same guy.

We were all offered the chance to become mods in 2010, but moot wanted to see our faces on a Skype call. I thought that was a step too far and just gradually stopped caring after that. Seems like I made the right choice.

On the whole it was barely held together technically and organisationally, mostly run by moot's personal friends, and fun all around. Things were far less serious then.

And the checks arrived on time every month: $0.00

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