Re:4chan Intrusion Postmorterm
by meowface on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @06:19AM
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In this case the user who gained access to the database was seen as doing it for a reasonably "noble" reason, relatively speaking (to find information about another user whom some disliked), so from what I can see there hasn't been much backlash against him even though his full name was posted in a few places. It was kind of a self-hack.
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Re:4chan Intrusion Postmorterm
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @10:42AM
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The way I heard it originally the dude broke in while trying to stalk his ex-gf, which is consistent with the report.
Please don't miscontrue the person's intentions as noble, or even put that word in the same paragraph as 4chan. It was misogynistic, sexist harrassment.
I did say "relatively speaking." I wasn't making a judgment as to whether it was moral or immoral, just that 4chan as a whole mostly saw it as reasonable, which is why most of them found the intrusion humorous instead of an affront.
This is in stark contrast to when UG Nazi hacked 4chan a while ago by hijacking Cloudflare's CEO's Gmail and pointing 4chan.org's A record at their own server.