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4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. (old.reddit.com)
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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 186 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.

It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.

The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web... or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way... and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 6 days ago

security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.

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[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 47 points 6 days ago (21 children)

I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.

Kill WordPress now.

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[–] gamer@lemm.ee 21 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I looked at some of the leaked source code

Where? I'd be interested in looking through it too

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[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 126 points 6 days ago (1 children)

[–] djsp@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is that the average 4chaner?

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[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 135 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Good Luck, Im Behind 7 Boxxies

[–] dentoid@sopuli.xyz 57 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Now thats a meme i havent seen in 20 years

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.

[–] Tum@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Boxxy must be what...40 now?

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[–] match@pawb.social 37 points 6 days ago (4 children)

damn it's even in the original 140p

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 102 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.

I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

So, a bunch of trolls got hacked? I’m not sure how I’m expected to feel about this, but frankly, I’m not feeling anything at all.

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As someone who has never actually used 4chan, I have popcorn and am just sitting back and enjoying the shit show

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 46 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I posted an amused and positive comment on the orange site about this and in 2 minutes got a threat about me getting hanged in the near future. Tech bros be panicing.

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[–] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 55 points 6 days ago

someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raided 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The hacker known as 4chan hacked himself? 😮

[–] cyphear@lemm.ee 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Who is this anonymous and why does he keep talking to himself?

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

10000 line file with no comments is honestly relatable as someone who took a job and had to wade through code like that

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[–] gargolito@lemm.ee 53 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is q-anon Elon Musk? What? I'm just asking questions.

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 39 points 6 days ago

You should check out the HBO documentary on Qanon. It's fantastic. Essentially, no. However, I don't doubt for a second that Elon didn't try to co-opt it at some point.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

furthermore, it's reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability

ContraPoints did an excellent video on conspiracy theories recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Apparently Elon Musk is mentioned quite frequently in these leaks, but take this with a sea of salt as there is no way to independently verify: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/%21SATANZ0Gpo/page/3/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaksAndRumors/comments/1jzqr8c/elon_musks_alleged_unverified_4chan_account/ (archive) summarizes these posts

[–] tauonite@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

As much as I hate Elmo, I still value truth more. There is 0 evidence he's behind that account. And given that the account claims to own Twitter (= claims to be Elmo), it's far more likely to be a troll than a secret-but-not-secret account by the richest fuckface in the world

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[–] dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Which one of you is going to hack reddit then?

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[–] briever@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Maybe they could do the world a favour and delete it - along with the backups.

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