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4chan’s entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP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

    • SSTF@lemmy.world
      141·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • Klear@lemmy.world
      32·
      9 months ago

      Pretty sure the complete opposite happened and something of value was found.

      • steeznson@lemmy.world
        7·
        9 months 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.

  • nnullzz@lemmy.world
    141·
    9 months ago

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

      • SSTF@lemmy.world
        11·
        9 months 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@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months 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.

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
      16·
      9 months ago

      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
      9·
      9 months 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

  • Enceladus [She/Hir]@lemm.ee
    5·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
    4·
    9 months ago

    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.