4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities, and users' IP addresses. If those claims are legit, it's a big deal with potential …
Gee, apparently Elmo posts like a 13yo edgelord and thinks Hitler did nothing wrong. What a shock!
Pardon the reddit link, the armpit of the internet, but this is where it's at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaksAndRumors/comments/1jzqr8c/elon_musks_alleged_unverified_4chan_account/
To paraphrase this commentary, you might be able to drive a nail by hitting it with a rock, but it doesn't make a rock the right choice.
You realise that 'commentary' is from 2012, right? You still quoting it as a 'proof' that PHP is bad just shows you have no recent knowledge of the language other than prejudices perpetuated on the internet.
This reaction commentary is also 5 years old, but even then the lion's share of problems from the original commentary had been fixed:
http://maettig.com/2020-09-16-revisiting-a-fractal-of-bad-design
You can write crappy code in any language, if we stopped using C/C++ because of all the people who don't know how to check for buffer overflows, we'd have to shut down most of the internet.
To correlate to actual names of people and makes it public. Shouldn't be that hard to do since at least for broadband IP addresses are relatively fixed for long periods of time.
They loved doxxing people for years, seeing them doxxed would be the ultimate karma! And if some of them end up losing their jobs over it in an economy spiraling into recession and end up homeless, all the better!
Slow down there Satan.
And residential IPs are not guaranteed to be static. Especially in the modern era where IPv4 is in limited quantities, many ISPs frequently rotate their consumers. I'm a living example: If I so much as sneeze at my router, I'll get a new IP.
Apparently they did heavy fingerprinting of users, you'd be more likely to get matches based on that data rather than just IP. But I doubt that will be released.
4chan has been trashy for over 25 years at least. /b/ was pretty much the worst of it then back in 2000, with the occasionally funny green text. Most of the time it was flooded with lame attempts to "outkek" each other, but even then the seeds of danger were well sown with even a few boards seemingly dedicated to hacking, and of course it being the birthplace of QAnon - which kinda debunks the whole "honeypot" aspect, doesn't it? It's honestly a wonder that site wasn't permanently taken offline or destroyed before being "rekt" now.
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