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Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by spacemule »

cherryteastain wrote: post #234

Rip 4chan. For all the bad it did, 4chan also made at least one real contribution to science [1], specifically to the study of superpermutations (aka the Haruhi problem), which was cited by genuine academics. We should try to remember it by that. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anim...

I'm not understanding the issue. The article isn't so clear to me. Would you mind clarifying what problem they solved?

Per my understanding, there is a show with 14 episodes that the viewer wants to watch in every order possible. How is this not just 14 factorial?

I know this can't be the problem, but it's just not clear to me from the article.

Edit: I found this link that explains it to anyone else as confused as I was: https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1bvn1rz/...

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by aaronmdjones »

mr_mitm wrote: post #682
nwallin wrote: post #566

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Usually the attacker, on their own computer, or some other server they have root on, will open a port and expose it to the internet and listen. The exploit payload will then make an outbound connection to that port. Once it's connected, the exploit will give the attacker's computer shell access. Search terms include 'reverse shell'. It takes the normal client/server architecture and turns it inside out. If you rememb…

That's why it's a good idea to block connections of all protocols into address ranges where an attacker might be able to host a service. Even on internal networks, if you are a corporation. But it gets better than tunneling over ICMP: DNS tunneling. Pretty much all systems can talk to a DNS resolver. If it resolves arbitrary host names, you can set up a DNS for a zone you control and requests will end up there. With…

I love iodine. When you're at a "free" wifi hotspot that needs an account (yet another company to take the security of your data so seriously that they upload it to an open S3 bucket), or you're on mobile data and out of credit, or whatever, iodine usually always works because as you say DNS is almost always allowed.

It's only a dozen kbytes/sec or so, but this is more than good enough for RSS, email, IRC, HN, ...

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by dbuder »

thinkingemote wrote: post #686
emmelaich wrote: post #621

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There's a related, more polite version of "are you retarded" which is not uncommon even here on HN. It is "I'm confused" . I don't know whether it's a phrase that I'm over analysing, but it always comes across as disingenuous to me. The responder is never actually confused, they have a question that they should just ask.

"I really don't understand why people would think X" is another example but I think there may be some expression of non-understanding. "So retarted it doesnt make sense." Similar, "are you a n*zi" never seen here but as a simple but clever "Could you elaborate?" often as a reply to a polite but ambiguous comment. It's basically bait for the ambiguous commenter to confirm or deny the morality of their comment.

"genuinely curious" is the new one I see everywhere lately.

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Post by Loocid »

brigandish wrote: post #659
Philpax wrote: post #135

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan#Controversies_and_harass...

Honestly, that didn't help. There's a wide type of "controversy" there, and I don't see how 4chan are inherent to any of them, they could've been done via any forum. Or maybe I missed something, specificity would be good.

But they weren't done via any forum, they were done via 4chan. The community makes a forum.

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Post by sph »

dbuder wrote: post #693
thinkingemote wrote: post #686

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"I really don't understand why people would think X" is another example but I think there may be some expression of non-understanding. "So retarted it doesnt make sense." Similar, "are you a n*zi" never seen here but as a simple but clever "Could you elaborate?" often as a reply to a polite but ambiguous comment. It's basically bait for the ambiguous commenter to confirm or deny the morality of their comment.

"genuinely curious" is the new one I see everywhere lately.

The passive aggressive Gen Z version is “make it make sense” which I despise

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Post by hellotheretoday »

protocolture wrote: post #565
Calinterman wrote: post #310

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It actually isn't, have you ever tried attending any real life function? An account with Meta is almost a requirement to even get in the door.

Thats insane. I have never been carded for a meta account IRL.

If you live outside of a city in America you will be shocked how many community events are organized and advertised exclusively on Facebook, how many local businesses eschew any online presence aside from a Facebook page, etc. Some towns got into the internet in 2012-2015 and basically got stuck there.

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

vlovich123 wrote: post #94
rob wrote: post #52

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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.

No, I’m saying the Internet was already in mass adoption for the preceding decade. Talk to old timers and they’ll reminisce that the early days of the internet were great until Eternal September in 93. Others will reminisce about the days of BBS. I’m saying “early internet” is a relative term that has more to do with the person interpreting than any objective definition.

Let's just call it "pre Facebook/Twitter" Internet, then. Because that's what it is.

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Post by bigfatkitten »

FMecha wrote: post #620
bigfatkitten wrote: post #440

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As far as I can tell, no real maintenance has happened since Poole sold the site a decade ago. Hiroyuki paid for it and then mostly forgot about it.

Nishimura for most part become a Japanese public personality - he has wrote for Japanese tabloids and has a YT channel.

Certainly explains why 4chan fell way down his priority list.

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Post by hobofan »

FiniteField wrote: post #509
codexon wrote: post #375

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> 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…

All of this sentiment is many years out of date. "Alt-right" hasn't been a term of self-identification for almost a decade, and hasn't been used as an identifier by pretty much anyone for at least half of that. /pol/ is not the epicentre of the radical online right and has not been for years - it's a backwater in that regard now. The most notable radicalisation happening on /pol/ nowadays, in my opinion, is a kind of…

I would still call it one of the epicenters. Yes, many venues that were previously only multlipliers like some prolific streamers / Youtubers / TikTok channels have grown and cultivated their own distinct subcommunities which form new epicenters.

However, from what I can see /pol/ still serves as significant breeding ground where people deeply committed to their views can get together in a "mask-off" manner without fear of moderation, while they have to be more "mask-on" on platforms that are more dissemination-focused like Youtube.

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