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4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. (old.reddit.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.

I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did 4chan had usernames and so? Wasn't it's deal that ir was anonymous?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some of the boards use a system called tripcodes, which are essentially a username and password in one that are used when writing individual posts. It allows people to prove that they're the same person across multiple posts, without anything as identifying as a user profile attached.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I always tough that they were cookie-generated, like you wnter the cookie assign a code for you that eventually go off. Pretty lame them pretending to not have user names while doing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tripcodes are not automatically applied. Default posting was anonymous, but a user could optionally post with a tripcode name.

Some boards like /pol/ introduced post IDs where a randomly generated code would follow your anonymous name within a thread, so others could see which comments within a thread were the same person. That system wasn't site wide though, and it wasn't a persistent account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Pretty lame them pretending to not have user names while doing it.

doesn't this essentially make it an opt-in system to user names?