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Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by titaphraz »

DaSHacka wrote: post #183
Blikkentrekker wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, so you say, but every single news website that I can find willing to say something on the matter is either The Daily Mail and similar things that also say they based their information on leaks on “social media rumors” or more reputable websites that also say it's a rumor that there's a leak. One would assume if it be so easily found and I'm so incompetent that these news websites could've found it themselves an…

I left a clue in my original reply. I'm not spoonfeeding any harder than that. Lurk moar or GTFO

That's a bit sinisterly of you.

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Post by SkyeCA »

carabiner wrote: post #393
gherkinnn wrote: post #106

You know, I always found Twitter (even pre-X) to be worse than 4chan ever was. Not in obvious terms, but in how it fucked with your head.

I received really heartfelt (to me) and sincere life advice on 4chan. I think the fact that it's anonymous without a real karma/voting system means there's a lot less ego-driven, self-centered posting. People don't try to attack as much or have bitter back-and-forths as much as twitter, reddit. They might argue for a bit and then just say f it and move on. But there's no motivation for ragebait, karma farming like th…

It's not just that there's no voting system it's that there's no names. It's pointless to argue on a site like Reddit, but it's ridiculous to argue back and forth on a site like 4chan where you can't even know if you're arguing with the same person from post to post.

Likewise an outside observer can't assign any identity to a series of posts in an argument, so you really have to take every post at face value.

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 »

It truly is an end of an era. I popped in every so often to check the temperature and was rarely disappointed by the level of crazy pervading it. Amusingly, despite it having such a massive influence on internet as a whole including its lingo and memes, my wife did not even knew about it existed until today.

I do not think it will be missed by many, but that kind of hole does not exactly disappear without a trace.

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Post by geor9e »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #269
azernik wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're looking for a link to the results of illegal hacking, then I humbly suggest that aboveboard news sites are not the place to look.

I'm saying I searched and I couldn't find it but what I did find was many news websites that reported it but said they couldn't confirm these rumors themselves and said they were just that, rumors. I found threads about it on other anonymous textboards where people would have no compunction to post the links and yet they didn't. The news sites don't just say “We obviously won't post the links.” but “We couldn't confi…

Click the HN headline, click the 1st external reference, click the 1st thread. The first post is the leaker speaking. Beware that website, the thread, and 4chan itself, are all, at best, in a legal grey area.

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 »

soon_to_be wrote: post #328
scryers_bloom wrote: post #69

We've heard it time and time again that 4chan is the so called "last bastion of free speech on the internet" when this so called free speech is just being unapologetically racist and antisemitic. I hope its gone for good.

4chan being gone for good would've been a bad thing regardless of your views. All those people who used to come there and just talk wouldn't just cease to exist nor stop feeling the way they feel. At the very least, it's the devil you know.

Yep, there is a reason the site was operational as long as it was.

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Post by rcpt »

torginus wrote: post #425
Red_Tarsius wrote: post #88

I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website. I enjoyed browsing through sfw boards like /tg/ (tabletop media), /ck/ (cooking) and /fit/ (fitness). I had long discussions about the SW sequels on /tv/ back in 2015-19. The readership was surprisingly diverse and the anonymity lead users to provide more focused replies. With bodybuilding.com gone, the blue boards felt like the last bastion of the old int…

It's interesting to note the popularity of the website, and the massive traffic it handled, despite the lack of everything we assume necessary for a modern (social media) website - no modern web frameworks - no microservices/kubernetes clusters - no algorithmic curation/moderation/recommendation algoritmhs One wonders just how much of the modern engineering developed in the past decades, that cost a fortune to develo…

otoh the entire site is no longer running because they fell behind on updates

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Post by creatonez »

optimalsolver wrote: post #395
codexon wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website. Because it is the 2nd most active category, and the racist/alt-right beliefs have spread to the other boards because the head admin fires anyone that tries to moderate it. https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-helped-turn-4cha... On top of that, they actively delete and ban posts that go against alt-right. I discussed it somewhat recently here: htt…

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I'm sorry, what? The 4chan community is racially tolerant because they post porn of all varieties and not just a few?

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Post by lbotos »

xattt wrote: post #550
robotnikman wrote: post #397

I did some digging and the hacker posted which exploit he used. Apparently some boards allowed uploading PDF files, but the site never checked if the PDF file was an actual PDF file. Once a PDF file was uploaded it was passed to a version of Ghostscript from 2012 which would generate a thumbnail. So the attacker found an exploit where uploading a PDF with the right PostScript commands could give the attacker shell ac…

> could give the attacker shell access. How do these exploits work? Does it open an SSH port somewhere or does it show up as a browser-based terminal?

https://blog.sucuri.net/2013/07/malware-hidden-inside-jpg-ex...

Once you can run any command, you start passing in whatever commands you want.

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Post by creatonez »

snvzz wrote: post #538
scryers_bloom wrote: post #69

We've heard it time and time again that 4chan is the so called "last bastion of free speech on the internet" when this so called free speech is just being unapologetically racist and antisemitic. I hope its gone for good.

>unapologetically racist and antisemitic. Anyone who's actually familiar with 4chan knows that posts containing any of that are cracked on hard, both by other users (replies calling it out) and janitors (delete+ban).

Is this actually true? So they just get around it with countless dogwhistles that mean the exact same thing?

Every single page is filled to the brim with racism, that is evident to anyone who has visited the site.

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