this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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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4chan's entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP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

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Was something of value lost?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

No, in fact we might begin healing. 🙏

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Pool's closed.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

it feels like this is big news but I can't seem to get myself to care

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

This is a huge blow to the Russian misinfo machine, unironically. If its down for a while, it will have some big effects

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

i hope so 🤞

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

QAnon literally started on 4chan so yeah, definitely!

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

It’s a famous hacker.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why's anyone surprised this happened? Was 4chan supposed to be a super up to date and modern website?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Holy shit. Has this ever happened before?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

4chan's had leaks before but it was nothing compared to this

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

quite a welcome change that this leak is tiny unlike most others lol

[–] Object 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know it's a 7z, but still not even a megabyte. That's really impressive.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

there’s no large dependencies in the project.

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Not me. I code in a big font

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks 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
===============================================================================
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this the work of the mysterious hacker 4 chan?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

I wish I cared. But have fun whoever wants this I guess.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

No, 8Chan was the Gamergate nonsense. 4chan is where Q started.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing wrong with php, except not updating it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Can we finally get definitive proof that Taylor Swift is a 4chaner?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

XCancel equivalents:

Spoilerhttps://xcancel.com/_yushe/status/1912041750085984276

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 ...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, nitter works again!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

nitter.poast.org also works to circumvent X logins

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago
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