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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4chan’s entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP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

    • SSTF
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      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.

    • oce 🐆
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      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.

      • Realitätsverlust
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        211 month ago

        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.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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          81 month ago

          there’s no large dependencies in the project.

          The one fucking thing 4chan does right and not even the big boys try

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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        111 month ago

        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

    • @SandroHc@lemmy.world
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      71 month ago

      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
      ===============================================================================
      
  • @nnullzz@lemmy.world
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    181 month ago

    Wouldn’t the hackers be able to release more info about the infamous “Q”? Like IP address or something?

      • SSTF
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        121 month ago

        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.

    • SSTF
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      31 month ago

      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.

    • ssillyssadass
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      111 month ago

      Apparently some admins had their personal emaild registered, and I heard posts caught the IP of posters.

      • @steeznson@lemmy.world
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        81 month ago

        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.

    • @infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
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      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.

    • @Baguette@lemm.ee
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      91 month ago

      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

  • BlackLaZoR
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    151 month ago

    4chan stopped being relevant since they introduced asinine bot prevention. It’s pretty much impossible to post there at all

    • SSTF
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      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.

      • @Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        121 month ago

        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.

        • SSTF
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          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.

          • Mîm
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            41 month ago

            /tg/

            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)

          • @Dotcom@lemmy.ml
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            21 month ago

            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.