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Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by mmcwilliams »

skilbjo wrote: post #561
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…

pretty interesting discovery if that was the hack. do you know what the legal implications are for this? if the company that owns 4chan finds the identity of the attacker, could they sue him in civil court? or do they send whatever logs they have to the FBI and the FBI would initiate a criminal prosecution? also what is the criminal act here? is it accessing their systems, or is it posting the data that they found "t…

Assuming US jurisdiction this would pretty clearly be at least one, probably many CFAA violations which are criminal.

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Post by asdff »

Philpax wrote: post #614
wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #522

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you remember when people thought first person shooters made people into murderers because the colombine guy played doom a lot and made a custom wad to simulate the attack? If a murderer eats omelettes every day we should ban eggs. Eggs turn people into murderers. Reminder some kids died jumping off buildings with umbrellas after Marry Poppins. Ban movies.

There's a difference between monkey-see-monkey-do and intentional group self-radicalisation. You don't become a racist neo-Nazi teenage mass murderer de novo .

A subset of the population will always be murderous and delusional about something. Just a fact of biology that not everyone is physically or mentally fit.

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Post by asdff »

pjc50 wrote: post #242
wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #133

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To add context, every male in my high school went on that site. Pol was just a place crazy people posted. We used to laugh and read eachother dumb copypastas at lunch with gorgonzola cheese rhymes and bad puns. The average 15yo boy have enough mental hygiene to know everything you read online is false. The website is not a nazi factory.

Perhaps the average one does, but some get sucked in, and if there's no Nazi factory where are all the nazis coming from? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx4wlynjw5o How many mass shooters had obvious 4chan radicalization roots? Christchurch definitely. > everything you read online is false In its own way, this is also poisonous. It enables holocaust denialists and anti-vaxxers: after all, vaccines and holocaust…

Next you will be asking for trump to ban rap music to stop drug trafficking

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Post by 14 »

snvzz wrote: post #547
LightBug1 wrote: post #22

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

4chan has global rules and board-specific rules. Racism, hate speech in general, as well as anything illegal, will quickly result in deletion and IP ban. The site will also, as it's obvious, cooperate with authorities, when it comes to crimes. 4chan is far from being a free-speech absolutist site.

But it has much less of a barrier to post things. You do not need an email or a phone number you can just post. And an IP ban will only be effective to prevent the average user. Still though things get removed and moderated and I am okay with that. Having seen some of the telegram groups and the misinformation they spread was a crazy eye opener during covid times.

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Post by throw5425 »

scryers_bloom wrote: post #318
kittikitti wrote: post #300

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Yes, and everywhere else people have to worry about being deported for pointing out Israel's war crimes. At least no one needed to worry about that on 4Chan, but seeing an anonymous racist meme is even worse for people like you.

That is a completely separate problem, and it's dishonest making the comparison. Extremist right wing ideology and genocide is actively advocated on /pol/ as well as anti-Jewish rhetoric. Neo-nazism is not pointing out Israel's war crimes, and pointing out Israel's war crimes is not neo-nazism or anti-Jewish. /pol/ isn't antisemitic for Israel's genocide; they just hate Jewish people. The Trump administration trying…

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Post by 1231231231e »

wewxjfq wrote: post #177
brigandish wrote: post #98

I see a lot of hate for 4chan here. Why? I’ve never used it, know it by reputation, but not sure why there’s so much hate for it.

This still stings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373

>Ask HN: Why is nobody using [obscure niche technology from the 80s]?

>Why [popular technology] is [unexpected opinion]

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Post by irusensei »

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…

The first llama torrents were posted on /g/ and for a long time it was the best place to go for information on local models.

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Post by none4methx »

KPGv2 wrote: post #640
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #633

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No. Not even close. Far closer to Obama and his circle. Around Carpocalypse 2008, a bunch of three letter agencies started pushes for internet connected vehicles knowing the tech wasn’t there; but would be. I watched it happen. There was some shady shit, and the reality was 2008 wasn’t just about GM and Chrysler but and entire JustInTime mistake that could have stopped almost all car production around the world. Diff…

> the bad men say the mean things You really lose all credibility when you downplay the richest man on earth openly bribing voters and the President claiming the man helped rig voting machines, and that same man makes Nazi salutes and goes to Europe and supports the Nazi party in the place where they invented Nazi parties. And then he basically moves into the White House and magically his companies start getting gove…

There’s no reason it should cost credibility to say that these people are motivated by an enjoyment of the spectacle of their cruelty and do it on purpose. Bad man has a moral connotation as well as a tradecraft connotation. Neither one of you is wrong to use the Bad Man monicker here.

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Post by panny »

greazy wrote: post #134

4chan is a reflection of the depraved, extreme side of humanity. Twitter has taken on the mantle of 'asshole of the internet', but I think the rotten apples post in both. 4chan is oddly accepting of gay and trans people. I've seen gay and trans porn side by side with bbc and bwc porn posts. Strange to see racist trans porn lovers. I like 4chan for the minor boards, not /pol/ or /b/. But /boardgames/ and /dyi/ and /in…

>4chan is a reflection of the depraved, extreme side of humanity.

I think moderated forums like this one are the reflection of depraved and extreme. After all, you need to be a depraved and extreme host to try to micromanage what everyone says. People who run sites in such a way must have depraved power fantasies.

Just set up a host and allow people to speak their minds? That sounds like someone who believes the good of humanity will triumph, and the right to speak freely is a fundamental one. Section 230 exists and puts the responsiblity of what is said directly on the poster, not the host. So there really seems no reason not to do this... unless you have depraved and extreme power fantasies about controlling what other people say and think.

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