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4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked

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12h ago

4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked

www.theverge.com /news/648908/4chan-hacked-down-outage-leak

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- However, Jared Holt, a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, points out that in terms of wilder rumors about .edu and .gov email addresses in the leaked lists, “the source for this claim was not legit…after spending the morning with what materials I could halfway assess as legit I am sad to report that this is a real snoozer.”
  come on man, read the article lol
- those are not the .edu ICE is looking for, unless for recruiting purposes
- Why would anyone use their real email on 4chan? I wouldn’t touch it without at least a proxy or two and a vpn.
  
  Gonna need seven firewalls for that kind of work.
  
  You don't need an email at all to post on 4chan. You don't register to use 4chan or post on 4chan. The only logins are for staff. People are making up and spreading rumors that don't even know how 4chan works.
- Don't threaten me with a good time!
- I’m having orgasmic convulsions like when my prostate gets rubbed during blowies

Heard about this just a few hours ago, and have been laughing ever since. This is going to be brutal, there are people who registered with .gov e-mail addresses. As the use of 4chan has been cited to me as potentially disqualifying people seeking security clearance for government, police, or military careers, this hack single-handedly has the potential to torpedo thousands of edgy bois in one fell swoop.
- Keep dreaming. 4chan only has registration for staff. All you have to do to post on 4chan is a captcha. Did you even read the article? It addresses the .edu and .gov rumor as false.
  
  If you say so, I'll take your word for it.
- I’ll never understand anyone that uses their school or work emails for social networking.
  
  I mean, is there even any verification? Or could I just register as bigboners69@harvard.edu or potus@us.gov?
- honestly a registered .gov address is a great way to recruit new meat into the ICE grinder
- Just wondering, what org specifically asks for 4chan use?
  
  I've been told that for clearance above reliability that social media use becomes an issue. 4chan was specifically cited to me by the person with whom I spoke. I'd assume that this means any/all alphabet government agencies, but Army was all that I heard about specifically.
  "Do you browse or use 4chan?"
  "No."
  "OK, good, because you weren't advancing beyond this stage if you said yes."
- Hilarious how you try to make fun of "edgy bois" while being one yourself and simultaneously being wrong.
  If I ever seen a self burn.

Dang, now I have to go outside to find white supremacists.
- Twitter and Fox News are just a click away!
- Did you get banned from Truth?
  
  I goddamn well hope so

... You can register on 4chan?
- Even bigger question: why would you register on 4chan? Isn't the whole point anonymity?
  
  The only people who would register would be janitors, mods, and admins. There are 4chan passes where you pay $20 a year to skip captchas and have a lower post cooldown which works by associating a token with an IP address. The token is emailed to you and you get reminder emails when the token is expiring so you can renew it. So 4chan would likely have emails for pass users too. Pass users still post anonymously. I don't know the exact stat but I remember the owner saying something like only 1% of users have a pass.

This is kind of a nothing burger since most users dont register any details. There is no data to be gathered. The real surprise will be how they got compromised.