4chan has been hacked. All source code leaked
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Not sure if this is against the rules or not
The IPs of all janitors and admins have been leaked
4chan's entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP
Not sure where the source code is from but I think it's the forum that did all of this in the first place
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Was something of value lost?
nope
No, in fact we might begin healing. 🙏
The /GROG/ threads in /tg/ were a constant source of good posts by Oldhammer players and a great resource for links to Oldhammer content that would otherwise be difficult to find.
/WIP/ on /tg/ has given me a lot of great tips throughout the years.
More recently, the Trench Crusade and MCP threads tend to be good for discussion and updates (when they aren't being raided by posters looking to call everything bad just to rustle people).
/k/ has gotten a lot more boring in the last few years as pretty much none of the original crew of tripposters are around anymore, but it can still produce the occasional nugget of good info, and usually has at least a couple of interesting picture threads up. I will say during the initial 2022 invasion times in Ukraine, /k/ had pretty much up to the minute updates and daily info threads for a few years.
/tg/ was fun, but on the whole, no
Pretty sure the complete opposite happened and something of value was found.
Pool's closed.
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It’s a famous hacker.
I miss nigahiga :(
it feels like this is big news but I can't seem to get myself to care
This is a huge blow to the Russian misinfo machine, unironically. If its down for a while, it will have some big effects
i hope so 🤞
QAnon literally started on 4chan so yeah, definitely!
Bullshit. Russia was certainly not targeting 4chan. If any russian agent was trying to push propaganda, he'd probably be drowned in "piss off removed" responses lmao. Why would they even try to target a platform where 95% of the people are just shitposting as if their lives depended on it and 5% are mentally ill.
Not everything you don't like is russian propaganda.
4chan is a hub for misinformation and conspiracies. Its full of racist, misogynistic, and overall hateful content. That content is not moderated at all how you think it is. It is a breeding ground of hate.
But that hate is native to the US/West, it is not a Russian plot. How do you think the Trail of Tears and Tasmanian Genocides happened? Instigated by Russian bots?
Disagree mostly - while there are those boards, like /pol/ or /b/, there's also normal boards with ... I wouldn't say "normal" people, but relatively speaking, sane people.
4chan is barely moderated.
Overall, I saw a lot more hate on reddit than on 4chan. But mostly because I'm not a /pol/ user.
You forgot to list like eight other boards that have the most racist, the most sexist, the most rape promoting incels of all time
Reddit doesn't compare at all
Idk, there were a lot of subreddits spewing hate, and they were online for years before public pressure mounted and they shut it down. Hell, we had shit like "abuseporn" which was online for over 4 years until it was randomly found by a journalist and then shut down lmao.
Youll never change my mind that the content on reddit was ever more cruel or unmoderated. And 4chan has been around MUCH longer than reddit.
This the same reddit that hosted /r/jailbait for almost a decade?
Yes, that reddit
Oh my sweet summer child.
Sure, there are a lot of naughty opinions on 4Chan. But at the end of the day, people more or less accepted other opinions. This doesn't compare to the absolutely insane range people on subreddits like PoliticalHumor show when they encounter different positions.
You seem not to be aware that shitposting is the easiest way to spread disinformation.
It really isn't. Because nobody takes it serious. That's the entire point. People don't shitpost to humorously critique social norms, they do it for the fun.
The only people who do take it serious are some normies that by accident see a 4chan meme on 9gag.
No way. Who in their sane mind visits 4vhan? Literally. Who is Russia trying to target incels that love Trump and porn lovers?
They don't need "sane", they need willing and obedient
Those people are annoying and loud. The goal is to get them to spread your message from there, so it appears organic.
pretty much that demographic, yes. they have a right to vote, after all. arguably russia may have had a hand in creating them via 4chan itself. and it's not enough to start a movement, you have to keep it going with continuous propaganda, otherwise they might stray to the sane side
It's pretty useful for PDFs that... fell from the truck.
no care, just smile :D
Why's anyone surprised this happened? Was 4chan supposed to be a super up to date and modern website?
Maybe because it used to be an important place for hacktivists like Anonymous. So, it was probably an obvious hacking target that could have learned to protect itself better.
Holy shit. Has this ever happened before?
4chan's had leaks before but it was nothing compared to this
Leaked Source Code: https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z
I know it's a 7z, but still not even a megabyte. That's really impressive.
I mean, this is only source code in text form, there's no assets or anything in the leak. They also don't use composer or any package manager, so there's no large dependencies in the project.
The one fucking thing 4chan does right and not even the big boys try
Not really, source code zips ridiculously well. A prolific and dedicated coder could probably fit their entire life's work minus assets on 5 floppy discs
Not me. I code in a big font
I comment in base64 images
quite a welcome change that this leak is tiny unlike most others lol
141K LoC, of which 63K PHP, 45K JS and 31K CSS.
Tokei output:
Is this the work of the mysterious hacker 4 chan?
It is now
Apparently some admins had their personal emaild registered, and I heard posts caught the IP of posters.
IPv4 addresses are not permanent and shuffle around a fair amount. There aren't enough addresses to cover the number of devices on the net. You'd need an ISP to map an IP to a specific time range confidently. Governments could do that but they could also do that pre-leak if they were investigating someone.
Wouldn’t the hackers be able to release more info about the infamous “Q”? Like IP address or something?
Q was 8chan
Qanon was a tripcode poster on /pol/, and a successor to the less famous FBIanon which was probably the same person.
The whole Qanon phenomenon is really fascinating because the actual Qanon poster stopped posting in like, 2018, but because boomers on Facebook don't know how anything works they'd just keep circulating that "Qanon said such and such" to each other on Facebook. It stopped being anything said by a specific poster on 4chan and started to just become this strange ethereal concept.
No, 8Chan was the Gamergate nonsense. 4chan is where Q started.
It depends how far back the records go. As far as I know there hasn't been an actual Qanon post in approximately 7 years.
I wish I cared. But have fun whoever wants this I guess.
4chan stopped being relevant since they introduced asinine bot prevention. It's pretty much impossible to post there at all
Huh? The capachas were a low bar to clear to post. I had no trouble at all on various boards.
4chan hates it when Tor and a VPN is used to enhance anonymity. It does frequent captchas, will refuse to load images, and won't let you post replies. It's like they want you to not be anonymous at all anymore.
You have to buy a 4chan pass, register an account (lol) or wait 15 minutes to post
I guess I just leave a tab open because it is a non-issue for me, at least on /tg/ and /k/. The timer doesn't seem to reset on threads opened from the existing tab. That or my ad blocking extensions block whatever janky system the site uses.
I made comments (multiple in one thread without seeing a timer reset) as recently as a couple of days ago with no issue.
I knew I saw you there :D
(btw. I was pleb_maximus on feddit.de before the instance died, so I knew you under that account from c/warhammer40k and c/oldhammer)
Once you’re “good” you stay good, possibly until you clear cookies? Not sure, but I know I rarely post now because I can’t be assed to wait that long, since I mostly post on /g/ and /v/ and they move fast enough I’m not likely to get in an exchange by the time I wait it out.
No one posts there anymore, it's too busy
Of course its php
That's not a surprise, nor was it unknown. Pretty much all pre-"social media" discussion sites were PHP. Myspace probably was, too. PHP also isn't intrinsically insecure, it just doesn't lend itself very easily to security.
Nothing wrong with php, except not updating it.
Early internet website, php is expected tbh
They prob have infinite tech debt to even consider converting to anything because I doubt they expected 4chan to still be alive in 2025, plus I'm decently sure all funds are being to keep the website alive and not hiring
Can we finally get definitive proof that Taylor Swift is a 4chaner?
CW: Xitter links
::: spoiler Spoiler https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912041750085984276
https://x.com/Priniz_twt/status/1911970751663448290
https://x.com/_yushe/status/1912025058953867353 :::
XCancel equivalents:
::: spoiler Spoiler https://xcancel.com/_yushe/status/1912041750085984276
https://xcancel.com/Priniz_twt/status/1911970751663448290
https://xcancel.com/_yushe/status/1912025058953867353 :::
Note that while you're not visiting X directly, media (avatars, images, etc.) is loaded from Twitter's server, so they may still track you.
EDIT: This Markdown works fine over here on Mbin but not over on Lemmy. If you know what I'm doing wrong by Lemmy standards, please let me know.
EDIT2: Testing if Lemmy wants an extra line break after
::: Spoiler...Wow, nitter works again!
Lol
nitter.poast.org also works to circumvent X logins
Oh no....
I used to use 4chan when I was a teenager, I didn't post much though, mostly just read through stuff. There has been a lot of awful stuff. I used to think it was cool or edgy, but now that I'm older and smarter I don't really think so anymore. Suffice to say, I'm not going to miss 4chan in the slightest.
Freedom isnt always pretty or smart. Especially at the edges. But those edges need to exist. Not for you, but for everyone.
My sentiments exactly. I'm content to watch it burn to the ground.
Not even the world's worst captchca saved them! Maybe if you had to solve one for every letter you type, they wouldn't have gotten hacked.
In the media soon: The notorious hacker 4chan strikes again, his latest victim: 4chan.
Nintoddler being a slur is somehow very funny to me.
I'm giving lainchan a shot to feed my imageboard obsession and I've been pleasantly surprised. The average post is of a higher quality and the mods seem more active. At the same time there are still like memes and greentext culture.
Might look into sushichan too...
Only issue is having to use KurobaEx instead of (Blue) Clover which is a bit clunkier but otherwise I think I can satisfy my shitposting needs.
Ok ?