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4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. (old.reddit.com)
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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 165 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.

It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.

The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 43 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.

Kill WordPress now.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 12 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Also, the owner of Wordpress is allegedly a piece of s...

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

...panish Inquisition

[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 27 points 13 hours ago

I wish people would stop censuring themselves on lemmy like they do for the other social medias. You can say shit, and a lot worse now that you aren't asking a corpo for permission to speak.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Shaaaaaving cream! Be nice and clean! Shave every day and you'll always look keen!

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Aaah, someone of culture, I see.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Stilton Cheese?

Satin undies?

Shit?

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 15 hours ago

Satin undies?

Close. Soiled undies.

[–] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

Ssssssandwiches

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 50 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web... or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way... and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 15 hours ago

security theater is a quite effective deterrent at times.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Not even 4chaners thought it was worth protecting

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 21 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I looked at some of the leaked source code

Where? I'd be interested in looking through it too

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

check some of the other chans and you will find a catbox.moe link to it.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Didn’t they get hacked pretty regularly in the past?