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4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. (old.reddit.com)
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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/!SATANZ0Gpo/page/3/

Allegedly Elon's account.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Did 4chan had usernames and so? Wasn't it's deal that ir was anonymous?

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Some of the boards use a system called tripcodes, which are essentially a username and password in one that are used when writing individual posts. It allows people to prove that they're the same person across multiple posts, without anything as identifying as a user profile attached.