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>>386547don't you understand?
Everyone who knew that exploit has access to the backend and thus full control over everything: ip addresses and such
then there's the 4chan pass... payment details are linked to identity. But for some reason this wasn't leaked?
By the way, this entire thing is false flag, an inside job, a glowslop from the lowest tier. It's not real.
>>386547Nigger. It's a scandal because they are a website with a very large userbase (allegedly hundreds of thousands) and they got hacked by a skiddie and went down for weeks because of atrocious security. It's not even just "they weren't following high standards", they were literally using software A DECADE out of date. They basically didn't update since moot left.
And it's not just some mumsnet type forum or something either. It's "evil nazi website" 4chan, regular host to various leakers and hacks itself, not to mention its ancient reputation for muh lulz raids and whatnot back in the day. Popular perception might be skewed but you'd still expect it to be regularly targeted by skids looking for infamy, and to be a bit more resilient than that. Honestly, given the info we were given, I'm really very surprised /qa/ of all places were the ones (allegedly) to finally get it.
>>386540>Why should anyone care?Why should anyone care that 4chan's staff hate the userbase, are a mixture of trannies and redditors, have secret ban reasons and geolocation in the mod tools? Are you for real?
>Same goes for the fappening/gamergateTotal nothingburger, thousands of users left the site over moot censoring everything to do with GG in a failed attempt to get gawker pussy.
>>386549The pass could only be bought with crypto. Crypto addresses are public and a hacker knowing that X address corresponds with Y IP is meaningless information.
>>386550You failed to explain why a user should give a fuck. Yes, they had bad security. And?
>>386551>implying the mods hating the userbase is some kind of secret when they've been open about it for 2 decades on IRCNo shit they have geolocation tools. Did you know they could also see all the posts your IP made, on every board? This was public knowledge and everyone knew that.
You nigs need to stop being drama queens. When 4chan is back up every single one of you will go back to it and you will forget why you were even mad at it within the same day.
[Read more] >>386550>Honestly, given the info we were given, I'm really very surprised /qa/ of all places were the ones (allegedly) to finally get it.that's because it glows in the dark
>>386553>cryptoisn't anonymous
monero, maybe
>>386547There are degrees of autism when it comes to updates and safety. There is a massive gulf between being autistically focused on the bleeding edge of security security/staying on top of zero days the moment that they're announced, and going a fucking decade without applying updates and running software that has reached end of life. It would be one thing if gookmoot simply was an update or two or three behind. But his shit had entered end of life years ago.
Running software that has passed end of life is grossly negligent if aren't taking extensive measures to safeguard yourself from evolving threats. An image board isn't something like banking infrastructure, space travel, or systems critical to the preservation of life that justify running ancient but extensively tested codebases, and those aforementioned cases of running old code are supported by teams of software experts that stay abreast of evolving threats and take appropriate measures to safeguard their systems.
>>386553>Did you know they could also see all the posts your IP made, on every board? This was public knowledge and everyone knew that.Except they weren't supposed to be able to see raw IPs and every mod being global is a terrible concept that leads to powertripping and janny cliques. 4chan is the only western imageboard that has either of those things.
>When 4chan is back up every single one of you will go back to it and you will forget why you were even mad at it within the same day.No I won't you stupid nigger, I've been gone from it for years. What exactly am I missing out on, botposts on /v/ and /pol/ and every sfw board being run by troons afraid of the nigger word?
>>386460/g/ was such sausage though. I kind of wonder how many suicides have resulted from 4chan going down, there were a lot of fags on /g/ who just seemed to spend all day bragging how they made so much money at their tech jobs (yet, when pressed, admitted to have nogf and no romantic prospects whatsoever). Without /g/ to blog to, their lives must be very quiet right now....
>>386557>Except they weren't supposed to be able to see raw IPs and every mod being global is a terrible concept that leads to powertripping and janny cliques. 4chan is the only western imageboard that has either of those things.4chan shows you the IP you were posting with in its ban messages. If you have ever played around with Tinyboard on moderator side, it shows user IPs. Of course it's like that.
>>386560>4chan shows you the IP you were posting with in its ban messagesThat doesn't mean it has to be visible to jannies.
>If you have ever played around with Tinyboard on moderator side, it shows user IPsTinyboard hasn't been updated in over a decade. Back then infinity had shifted to only showing hashes to jannies and other IB backends like meguca don't show IPs to staff at all.
>>386553>You failed to explain why a user should give a fuck.I mean, the users are kind of unable to use the website right now as a consequence.
>Yes, they had bad security. And?Yeah sure it's not the end of the world. It's not a scandal in the sense of "they are EVIL" or something. But it's a scandal in the sense of "I can't believe they would actually do that!".
It's a scandal in the same way some celeb being outed for fucking whores or something would be a scandal. Not in the sense that the average person is in any way affected, but in the sense that it was scandalous behaviour.
>>386555>that's because it glows in the darkIf you assume glow-ops then you have to throw away the entire story including the premise of the the hack caused by outdated software in the first place.
[Read more] >>386567I would put this scandal on the level of "Local mma fighter shockingly beaten by school kids"
>>386565> That doesn't mean it has to be visible to jannies.It doesn’t, but it was and we all knew it
> Tinyboard hasn't been updated in over a decade.4chan hasn’t been updated in over a decade.
>>386571A potentially fruitful analogy, provided the MMA fighter wasn't local but had tens to hundreds of thousands of dedicated fans across the world, and had made a whole personality of being a fighter to be reckoned with, and then got beaten by school kids not due to some fluke but in a way that showed he was actually in horrible shape and his entire career had been bravado.
>>386567> If you assume glow-ops then you have to throw away the entire story including the premise of the the hack caused by outdated software in the first place.naturally. Is it so much of a stretch to assume that Sh4rty is run by the same glowniggers that ran the 4chan psyops these last 8 years? They took over in 2017 after Trump won. Now that USAID got cut, they couldn't fund 4chan anymore through their backdoor channels. The hack is them just making up a story to cover their tracks and burn the evidence. 4chan is not coming back. And when it is official that it doesn't, it will prove this theory.
If those glowniggers couldn't have control over 4chan, they decided no one should. And that's why they nuked it. And to replace it, they're running operation Sh4rty. It's funded by the same faction.
Why did they end 4chan though? That's still a mystery. My guess is that someone might be afraid that the papertrail might uncover where the money really came from (USAID). So before someone starts digging, it's best to terminate the operation and switch to the fallback crew (sh4rty). And I would assume that sh4rty's paper trail is much more obscure.
[Read more] >>386580>they couldn't fund 4chan>to replace it, they're running operation Sh4rty. It's funded by the same faction. Huh
Mind you it could well be some sort of psyop and I don't trust the party at all, but I don't get your reasoning there
>>386587>hurr it's dead foreverHow the fuck does a so-called journalist write an article like this and not even ask the site admins for comment?
>>386587>WiredI'm not giving sites like that a single hit.
>>386592Journalism has been dead for about as long as journalism has existed.
>>386581Honestly I think it was just a destabilization technique. Shills were getting to BTFO much too hard, fast, and consistently. I noticed them floating the idea of there that if Anons didn't stop saying so many no no words the "site might get shut down." They were told it already happened once before and just have things worse, but I'm assuming no one from the exodus is still in that department and they're convinced their idea is actually new and will totally work this time. They're probably hoping to quell momentum, demoralize, and steer Anons to places more easily moderated where there isn't an existing culture of speaking the truth about jewry. That and to control the narrative a bit more. They've been desperate to psyop various talking points about Trump and Israel and get White people to go to war.
>>386581covertly funding 4chan had become too risky because of DOGE. If someone would discover that 4chan was funded with federal money, it would be scandal and a massive redpill to normies.
There are two smoking gun ('ish):
1. in 2016 gookmoot was looking for investors, even willing to accept new board members in exchange. After 2017, never again was there mention of money problems and gookmoot went dark
2. exactly 2 weeks after the first quarter of USAID being nuked, 4chan is taken down by teenagers. 2 weeks prior, the site administrators joked about being shut down by DOGE
I mean... there's coincidences and there's (((coincidences)))
If you know what I mean
[Read more] >>386558I would expect people like that to have alternatives knowns, if not prepared already.
>>386624I personally think it's not coming back because it is exactly the type of thing USAID was propping up elsewhere. Also how the moderators there didn't really care about the userbase or were directly hostile to them.
>>386657>I personally think it's not coming backThe time of the altchans has come
>>386580so basically the mods got burned by other glowniggers for being complete niggers not even worth sparing. not shocking at all. to be honest it sounds shockingly reasonable.
>>386624>covertly funding 4chan had become too risky because of DOGE. If someone would discover that 4chan was funded with federal money, it would be scandal and a massive redpill to normies. its already a fact. anyone who thinks 4chan is covered in ad money and passes is retarded. they shouldnt be allowed to have an opinion on any subject if theyre that out of touch with the cost of the site.
>>386661I want 4chan back but not in the hands of any of these retards, and I can't pay for it.
>>3866614chan clones will rise above hyper-focused altchans.
>>386710I like how RapeApe of all fucking people is now the public spokesman for the entire 4chan team (and normified his name lmao)
>>386661This. Now it's decentralized and much harder to control. Anybody saying it's a Total Kike Victory is a shill.
It's time for alt-chans to rise and become the new top dogs.
>>386746Isn't that how many things rise up? A top dog dies by doing a dumb decision, and many alternatives show up, basically replacing it?
Whatever this was the soja men ruining things or a NWO op shooting itself in the foot, now they basically tripled their work.
>>386746/pol/ is now a multicellular organism.
>>386750Yes, it is the cycle of life. 4chan left to rot with decade end of life codes running the site and users hating the jannies/mods for trying to make the site Reddit 2.0. It was only a matter of time until it fall and now the alt-chans are feasting on it's corpse.
I remember anons said when 4chan get taken down, it will be the biggest mistake they ever make. I hope it become true.
It's going to be hard for the glowies to keep track of anons after they become internet nomads.
>>386580You are 1000% correct. They are burning their agents to insulate themselves, aka throwing kiwitrsnnies and the 4chan hackers in jail.
It's even worse than that though. DOGE's AI auditing can see who paid who, across mediums of exchange. You tumbled Bitcoin, paid me, and I cashed it out? AI will say "you paid me."
What happens when investigators tie the donkey show and kiwifarms to O9A, 764, the com, and other underage grooming/blackmail groups? Funded by the CIA and Peter Thiel?
USAID was a story so large in scale and scope, no normies dug through it. What happens when something of the same scale breaks, but it's about a child grooming gang?
>>386624Yes DOGE is what scared them. Very good NOOTICING they joked about doge just before being shut down.
Elon called out JayZ for buying Beyonce's(his wife) album so she topped the country charts. Now apply that to following USAID money around.
Now what happens when they find the CIA is grooming trannies online through the donkey show?
GAME OVER. We are going to see glowniggers do mass hacking campaigns to destroy evidence. Power grids, water plants, banks, retail store sites. They will try to destroy the country to distract from their crimes.
I don't think martial law can be avoided at this point. Nothing can stop what is coming.
>>386756I doubt much is going to happen. These are the same people who walked away from Epstein's child abuse party.
>>386755>>386756This isn't reddit, double-spacing is not necessary
>>386759Uh, you ever heard of paragraphs dude?
>>386758>>386756This. If anything, and if someone has a brain (which I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt), the only thing they are going to do is sweep this under the rug, maybe (MAYBE) hook 4chan on again with the posts of April 15th deleted, and find the motherfucker "killing himself" for making this huge problem obvious.
>>386760That doesn't explain the linebreaks every line. Do you want people to think you're a mindless bot or not?
>>386760He's literally reddit spacing and his post read like a schizo. It's hard to take his posts seriously.
>>386762Paragraphs are always separated by linebreaks.
>>386661I hope it doesn't come back, mlpol is much comfier. When 4chan comes back, this place will turn into a one pony ghost town again.
>>386766This but also put mlpol and 8chanmoe buildings that look perfectly fine on the sides.
Will 4chan come back?
To be quite honest...
>>386817>>386775Be wary for anything coming back after glowfagots are confirmed involved in taking it down, after glowfaggots were exposed. See the whole 8kun fiasco
>>386828they don't know it still a thing.
>>3867728moe doesn't even have an /mlp/ board. I have been diligently watching among this place and nhnb to see where most of us end up.
>>386882I guess I'm retarded for phone posting. It only shows a handful of boards using the drop down menu on mobile. Thanks anon I've been wacked out in everything I do since losing /mlp/.
>>386885Fair warning 8chan is getting shilled left and right, so it won't be as smooth posting as here. but theres a chunk of /mlp/ there
>>386886I'm just looking for whichever of the three gets the highest congregation of posters from /mlp/. All 4 sites are different. For instance it feels like 4chan was the only one where people posted greentext stories which was my main thing. Especially long form.
>>386888Understandable, I've seen a sliver of crossposting greens, bots, and art but it makes it harder if you're a content creator that you gotta jump through hoops for (You)s and without the engagement a lot of content fags just fade away
>>386889I can live without the (you)s. I just need to know that wherever I'm posting SOMEONE is interacting with it somehow. Wherever that is. Even if it means giving up on Green and moving into regular prose on fimfic. Green is my fucking lifeblood and honestly the hardest part about losing the board/site.
>>386890Be the change you want to see.
A long time ago I did greens for a one off thread which became a niche general. It was too niche to survive without greens, and eventually more writefags showed up to take up the torch. Now all the writefags from that general are retired, so it's back to being greenless and the general died off.
>>386888So, you're going to sit on the sidelines and let the sites compete for your affection?
Sounds like bitch-strategy to me
>>386927>Is that so?Sure looks like it from where I stand
>>386927Saying "we're not dead" while the site is still down and all we hear is "Uh... yeah we're working on it probably and it'll be back, uh, sometime, maybe!" is not going to cut it for much longer.
>>386927And I hope it stay dead. Fuck the jannies, fuck the 15 minute wait to reply, and fuck the global no pony rule.
>>386930Meh, it hasn't even been two weeks yet. There's a big difference between taking like a month to update everything and being literally dead forever.
I'm not saying it won't die, I'm just saying you can't really conclude anything yet. Give it a month or two.
>>386927Even if it comes back, it will never be the same.
>>386927hiro's probably trying to post ANYTHING just to keep the community informed that they didn't run with
money hot pockets
alternatively 4chan tomorrow
>>386934>the third era of 4chan is upon us >>386933There is only a limited amount of sitting around waiting for them with the only updates being vague "soon" bullshit that I will tolerate before I decide to just find a better option.
>>386936>before I decide to find a better optionWell no shit, you're here now aren't you? If that's what's stopping you then there's no need to wait.
>>386937If the 1st of May rolls around and all I still hear is "just wait" and "soon" that is it.
>>386938That is what? What are you gonna do?
Post on an altchan? Again, you're here now. Post on another altchan? Where, and why aren't you posting there now anyway?
Or are you gonna shoot up hiro's house or something?
>>386934This, it's going to be 100% more worse. They're going to hire their new janny tranny team and they just can't wait to start handing out bans to 4chan chuds.
>>386940That is their deadline when I stop trying to hold their community together for them and go find something else.
>>386941/tv/ is probably gonna buck break them with sneedcore music
>4chan chuds4chud
>>386942The fuck are you talking about schizo
>>386927Archived link to the article.
https://archive.is/bNQVzThe faggot in this article doesn't even try to substantiate why 4chan is dead or wouldn't come back up. He declares it gone forever and says that's a good thing because muh evil racist memes, and says that imageboards like it serve no purpose for Internet counterculture because muh orange/rocket man turned Twitter into 4chan.
>>386946It's not complicated. 1st of May is the deadline I am giving them for when I stop trying to hold their shit together and move on to something else.
>>386948Whose shit are you holding together, retard
>>3869504chan. Specifically /pol/ but I'll take anyone.
>>386951/pol/ is not being held together. Medications.
>>386953Where do you think you are?
>>386954On /mlp/
Which is also being held together by Lotus and Pupper et al., not you
And where you are also posting before May 1st
>>386951>>386948How are you "holding it together"? What are you trying to say? What is it that you are doing?
>>386956My being here to talk to people who have found this place, creating threads for them to use, reassuring them on 4chan coming back, you know...
>>386959That benefits /mlpol/ and other altchans more than anything else. It's hardly "holding 4chan's shit together".
>>386960Yes I'm fine. I am just going to take a limited amount of bullshit.
>>386957Correct. Medications immediately, don't make me repeat myself even more.
>>386959>My being hereSo already having moved on from 4chan even before your deadline.
>>386963Nobody can go to 4chan right now retard.
>>386965Then tell us faggot. How are you using 4chan?