Greentexts, memes, everything 4chan.
Slurs
Slurs
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4chan's entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP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
Nintoddler being a slur is somehow very funny to me.
In the media soon: The notorious hacker 4chan strikes again, his latest victim: 4chan.
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.
Pool's closed.
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 🤞
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
quite a welcome change that this leak is tiny unlike most others lol
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.
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
141K LoC, of which 63K PHP, 45K JS and 31K CSS.
Tokei output:
===============================================================================
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
===============================================================================
CSS 31 39203 31318 959 6926
INI 89 4269 1833 1401 1035
JavaScript 20 55986 45105 1023 9858
PHP 104 93517 63143 15032 15342
Rakefile 1 109 77 8 24
Ruby 1 74 57 2 15
Plain Text 135 2609 0 2507 102
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTML 2 83 83 0 0
|- CSS 1 4 4 0 0
|- JavaScript 1 78 60 0 18
(Total) 165 147 0 18
===============================================================================
Total 383 195850 141616 20932 33302
===============================================================================
Cool. It’s 4 chan. What exactly are you gonna expose lol
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.
4chan stopped being relevant since they introduced asinine bot prevention. It's pretty much impossible to post there at all
No one posts there anymore, it's too busy
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 wish I cared. But have fun whoever wants this I guess.
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?
XCancel equivalents:
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 ...
