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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4chan’s entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP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
Wouldn’t the hackers be able to release more info about the infamous “Q”? Like IP address or something?
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.
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.
tfw reality is borked 😥
No, 8Chan was the Gamergate nonsense. 4chan is where Q started.
Leaked Source Code: https://litter.catbox.moe/a8z45n.7z
quite a welcome change that this leak is tiny unlike most others lol
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 ===============================================================================I know it’s a 7z, but still not even a megabyte. That’s really impressive.
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
I comment in base64 images
Not me. I code in a big font
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
Of course its php
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
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.
Can we finally get definitive proof that Taylor Swift is a 4chaner?
Was something of value lost?
No, in fact we might begin healing. 🙏
nope
/tg/ was fun, but on the whole, no
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.
Pretty sure the complete opposite happened and something of value was found.
Holy shit. Has this ever happened before?
4chan’s had leaks before but it was nothing compared to this
I’m giving lainchan a shot to feed my imageboard obsession and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. The average post is of a higher quality and the mods seem more active. At the same time there are still like memes and greentext culture.
Might look into sushichan too…
Only issue is having to use KurobaEx instead of (Blue) Clover which is a bit clunkier but otherwise I think I can satisfy my shitposting needs.
Not even the world’s worst captchca saved them! Maybe if you had to solve one for every letter you type, they wouldn’t have gotten hacked.
I used to use 4chan when I was a teenager, I didn’t post much though, mostly just read through stuff. There has been a lot of awful stuff. I used to think it was cool or edgy, but now that I’m older and smarter I don’t really think so anymore. Suffice to say, I’m not going to miss 4chan in the slightest.
Freedom isnt always pretty or smart. Especially at the edges. But those edges need to exist. Not for you, but for everyone.
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
QAnon literally started on 4chan so yeah, definitely!
No way. Who in their sane mind visits 4vhan? Literally. Who is Russia trying to target incels that love Trump and porn lovers?
pretty much that demographic, yes. they have a right to vote, after all. arguably russia may have had a hand in creating them via 4chan itself. and it’s not enough to start a movement, you have to keep it going with continuous propaganda, otherwise they might stray to the sane side
They don’t need “sane”, they need willing and obedient
Those people are annoying and loud. The goal is to get them to spread your message from there, so it appears organic.
i hope so 🤞
Bullshit. Russia was certainly not targeting 4chan. If any russian agent was trying to push propaganda, he’d probably be drowned in “piss off faggot” responses lmao. Why would they even try to target a platform where 95% of the people are just shitposting as if their lives depended on it and 5% are mentally ill.
Not everything you don’t like is russian propaganda.
You seem not to be aware that shitposting is the easiest way to spread disinformation.
It really isn’t. Because nobody takes it serious. That’s the entire point. People don’t shitpost to humorously critique social norms, they do it for the fun.
The only people who do take it serious are some normies that by accident see a 4chan meme on 9gag.
4chan is a hub for misinformation and conspiracies. Its full of racist, misogynistic, and overall hateful content. That content is not moderated at all how you think it is. It is a breeding ground of hate.
Disagree mostly - while there are those boards, like /pol/ or /b/, there’s also normal boards with … I wouldn’t say “normal” people, but relatively speaking, sane people.
That content is not moderated at all how you think it is
4chan is barely moderated.
It is a breeding ground of hate.
Overall, I saw a lot more hate on reddit than on 4chan. But mostly because I’m not a /pol/ user.
You forgot to list like eight other boards that have the most racist, the most sexist, the most rape promoting incels of all time
Reddit doesn’t compare at all
Sure, there are a lot of naughty opinions on 4Chan. But at the end of the day, people more or less accepted other opinions. This doesn’t compare to the absolutely insane range people on subreddits like PoliticalHumor show when they encounter different positions.
Idk, there were a lot of subreddits spewing hate, and they were online for years before public pressure mounted and they shut it down. Hell, we had shit like “abuseporn” which was online for over 4 years until it was randomly found by a journalist and then shut down lmao.
Youll never change my mind that the content on reddit was ever more cruel or unmoderated. And 4chan has been around MUCH longer than reddit.
This the same reddit that hosted /r/jailbait for almost a decade?
Yes, that reddit
Oh my sweet summer child.
But that hate is native to the US/West, it is not a Russian plot. How do you think the Trail of Tears and Tasmanian Genocides happened? Instigated by Russian bots?
no care, just smile :D
Is this the work of the mysterious hacker 4 chan?
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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.
