/tech/ - Technology

once again no one ever tried, they thought it was too big and mustve been protected

>>29062
no one could be bothered

Scarcely a juicy target, now is it?

pdf files will hang

>>29062

The site has been ungodly shit for years. Hope it stays dead

>first thread on the 4cuck i joined: iraq veteran, deployed 2010, bragging about shit he did, recalling an iraq army captain caught having sex with younger soldier in his office

>last thread on 4cuck i joined, last month, disscussing /lit/ and the thread derailed into shitting on da blaccs

15 years. 15 years in that bitch

Somethign I don't understand about why every one is freaking out is the source code being leaked isnt that big of a deal.
Google and read Vichan's code. It's been out for a while.
The only major revelation here is the mod/jannie dox. Thats about it.
4chan will be back up in a day or so probably, depending on how responsive who ever is the real admin these days is.

The mods will have their lives ruined probably.

>>29069
4chan source code? we could make our own chans?

considering its been exposed as a lump coprolite im not sure why anyone would really bother as you'd have to completely update it first.

>>29070
You always could.
Litterally google my man.

>>29070
Are you deadass

A thought just occorued to me.
It seems, the admin/owner is super hands off or entierly disconnected from anythign on the site. The mods/jannies are all volunteers with a few paid ones. Obviously none of them know how to run a site or code.
The ownership has changed hands a few times over the years.
What if who ever own the site currently has no idea how to log into the box or where the box even is any more that the site even runs one. That would be the ultimate irony.
The owner of the worlds most popular website had locked them selves out since 2012 and never told any one.

>>29074
>worlds most popular website
had me until here

How hard is it to sudo dnf update every once and a while?

>>29069
It won't be the same, and no one will ever trust giving emails or waiting 900 seconds to make a post just so the chink can keep collecting 4chan passes
there's no way they have a backups either or any systems in place to fix the structural issues that have been neglected for over a decade, its and it'll be dead on the water for anyone trying to bring it back.

I wonder if anyone did but they just used it under the radar.

I wonder what other site will be used to spread far right propaganda

>>29077
Your email is safe…

Ah, I wish I was in the official discord or irc. I wonder how panicked and doomer they are right now.

Also it was hacked by a bunch of chuddy European teens

>>29074
What’s the difference between a mod and a janny? I know both are volunteer so it can’t be that mods get paid, right?

>>29077
I hate how computer illiterate everyone is.

>>29084
Janitors can delete posts and submit bans. Mods approve bans and can do fancy stuff like lock or move threads.

>>29086
Thanks!

>>29080
Twitter, but it feels like Elon always has a good reason to bail on that, so it's more anomalous that twitter persists than doesn't.
It'd be funny if Truth Social ended up getting too big to moderate.

>>29087
I considered applying for janitor a few times but always decided against it since it would mean having to sit in a Discord and get to know people and that all seemed cliquey and annoying. I was right haha. I wonder how many janitors will be scared off. They'll have to recruit new ones when the site comes back up.

4chan's moderation/site management is deeply flawed for both its opaqueness and its refusal to proactively improve the site. Mods and janitors weren't your fellow poster, they were an infallible invisible force. That's why janny hate was so prevalent.

>>29089
Yeah that would bore me to tears and I spend enough time on the internetz. Plus too much responsibility for such low reward.

>>29090
The most satisfying thing to do on /v/ was bait people into saying something racist and off topic, report them, and see their posts vanish. Being a janny would have been fun.

>>29091
If I recall tho the “no racism outside of /b/“ rule was NEVER enforced. For example I went to /x/ trying to find creepypastas and shit and it was all just new-age flavored racist conspiracies and just as many slurs as the containment boards. Even the hobby boards had it.

>>29092
I wouldn't say it was unenforced, more that the post had to be pretty much nothing but the racism. Like "Your opinion is wrong for x y z reasons you stupid slur" never gets banned, but "kys you gorilla slur" would be consistently when reported.

Loads of rules were just inconsistently enforced, that was one of the big problems and it wasn't just racism. You could call someone or just "uyghur" in one thread and get away with it, and then use it in a thread on another board and cop a three day, depends if it was reported, seen by a mod or who that jannie or mod was and how thin skinned they were.

Apparently there was a post of KF or sharty giving a rundown on the mods and which boards they moderated, with some boards just completely unmoded or having like one.

I was looking at the jannie list as I suspect that there was one that actively used a general I posted in, who when annoyed would report people. There seemed to be a mod of sp who would continually auto-sage /cric/, /afl/ and /nrl/ threads as well, for any actually rule violation, for personal grievances or just to fuck with people? who knows.

>>29094
sage-ing is when you set your reply so it doesn’t bump the thread, right?

>>29095
Bruh look at what moot making sage invisible caused. But yes.

>>29096
What’s the issue with bumping threads? Why is that such a big deal? Like if one thread is too popular it becomes annoying for other users to see different threads? Just curious.

>>29097
sage was born on 2ch to intentionally keep threads hidden in the thread list (similar to an imageboard's catalog) so trolls lurking the front page wouldn't find them. Kind of lost much of its purpose when Futaba came to be and introduced pagination but it still exists to make a post without bumping a thread.

>>29098
Ah, gotcha. It’s a HUGE deal on lolcow farm, btw. Every other post is someone bitching about it.

>>29092
I got hit with it a few times for insulting crackkkas.

>>29100
Yeah the chuds always get real butthurt about that

>>29069
It's not about the unsavory elements found within it (like all the tracking and shadowban mechanisms), but security vulnerabilities. And you don't seem to know the differences between closed and open source code when it comes to vulnerabilities.

In open source projects (like Vichan), vulnerabilities are rarer because there's more eyes on the code which means they're more likely to get spotted and fixed, oftentimes very quickly by the person who noticed it.
This sounds counterintuitive since a malicious actor can potentially spot a vulnerability before anyone else and exploit it, but in practice this rarely happens because vulnerabilities get routinely fixed at a very good rate.

Closed source (like 4chan), though, has more vulnerabilities for two reasons:
>less people looking and checking the code means they're more likely to go undetected
>increased sloppiness by the coders since the code is only available to select groups that arent malicious, thus they dont see a reason to write better code
Closed source has both a high rate of vulnerability creation AND a low rate of vulnerability fixing. This mean vulnerabilities accumulate over time. A closed source code being leaked is a disaster because now you've got the threat of malicious actors looking at it while the source code itself is riddled with orders of magnitude more vulnerabilities than open source. This makes the probability of a malicious actor discovering a vulnerability near-guaranteed (and indeed, people have already discovered various problems with 4chan's leaked code that aren't the PDF file vulnerability that the hacker used).

So, will 4chan take legal action against the hackers in the future?

>>29102
Vichan is based off of a previous release of 4chan code