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Re:4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days by jmclnx on Sunday April 20, 2025 @04:50PM (#43746443)
>According to BleepingComputer, the attack was made possible by 4chan’s extremely outdated version of PHP from 2016

Interesting, you would think the 4chan people would know better. My guess they are gone for good, not that is a huge loss.

Re:4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days by captn3m0 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @04:52PM (#43746451)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698267 Says it was a validation bug that let poscript files be processed by Ghostscript assuming they were PDFs.
Re:4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days by ValveFan6969 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @05:39PM (#43746706)
Uncensored speech scares you like that, huh?
Re:4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days by thomassmith65 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @07:29PM (#43747319)
Uncensored speech didn't scare me 25 years ago. It does now. Maybe it's old age that changed my mind; maybe it's living in a dystopia.
Re:4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days by quickslowdown on Sunday April 20, 2025 @05:54PM (#43746776)
What a mature response that invites further discussion.
Re:4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days by darthrupert on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:15AM (#43760585)
I was on your level 10 years ago. It has become obvious recently that humanity cannot handle it.

Now, I need very good evidence that it's a good idea before I support the kind of free speech that destroys civilized society from within.

Perhaps it's supremely ironic that americans will have actual need for anonymity in online spaces now. And not for posting dumb memes, but for doing the things to tyrants that their Founding Fathers kept talking about.

Re:4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days by clipsy on Sunday April 20, 2025 @09:31PM (#43747830)
> you would think the 4chan people would know better

I would, in fact, not.

Re:4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days by red-iron-pine on Monday April 21, 2025 @01:43PM (#43754482)
no shortage of other *chans to take its place. from what i've heard it was mostly spam and porn at this point anyways. as the replicant said at the end of the movie "time to die"