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General Discussion: users, bad takes, jannys, Null, etc
TheCIAGlowsInTheDark said:
There's a very good reason why no one gives Yellowbook a lot of shit while something like Raid Forums or WeLeakInfo became scrutinized by the feds.

A service like Yellowbook provides legal publicly available information where you can find someone to get in touch with (a family member, a co-worker, a long lost friend). No one craps on Yellowbook because what they do inherently isn't malicious.

Then you have those edgy skid communities and black hat hacking communities that wish to obtain sensitive data for malicious reasons. Posting credit card information, posting social security numbers, posting birth certificates, posting a state ID or driver's license, posting banking information; these things I listed are not seen as protected speech because anyone can use this kind of sensitive data to commit fraud (credit card fraud, sim swapping, wire fraud), commit forms of criminal harassment (such as swatting), or steal someone's identity to purchase a hot ticket item (such as a brand new luxury car).

There's a reason why the feds often thoroughly investigate and shut down communities engaged in stupid shit like this out of national security reasons. No one is entitled to learn someone's social security number because abuse of that kind of information can lead to criminal activity.
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Yeah, you nailed it. Yellowbook is basically the phone book 2.0—it’s built around public data that people could’ve looked up anyway, even back in the day with a thick-ass paper tome. The intent behind it is just connection, not exploitation.

Meanwhile, stuff like Raid Forums and WeLeakInfo were digital cesspools where the whole point was to trade stolen or sensitive info like baseball cards. It’s like comparing a neighborhood directory to a locker full of crowbars and ski masks.

The difference in intent matters a lot, especially legally. Yellowbook’s there to help you find Aunt Carol’s number, not to buy a stolen Tesla under someone else’s name.

It’s honestly wild how some folks try to pretend it’s all “just information” like there’s no difference between a home phone number and a full dox packet with banking info. The feds definitely don’t see it that way—and for good reason.
 
The Washington Ogre said:
The 4chan feature is impossible to read through because it's nonstop posts of people crying about how the site went downhill and their personal anecdotes on a site they wasted almost twenty years on, since all seem to pretend to have started posting before 2010.
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Most of them are election tourists that only started browsing 4chan in 2016 and never left /pol/.

Outside of /b/ and /pol/ turning to shit, 4chan is largely the same as it was 10-15 years ago. While there are legitimate complaints about modern 4chan (annoying email bullshit, constant CAPTCHAs, some of the jannies being a bit overzealous, etc...), it still has a ton of freedom in terms of what you are allowed to talk about and the jannies are relatively hands off compared to most sites. While I don't respect jannies on any site, I would take 4chan jannies over someone like Null or Trombonista or Bardfinn any day of the week.

In my 15+ years of browsing 4chan, I have been banned around 50 times, mostly for intentionally posting off-topic threads on /v/ and /sp/ or for intentionally posting porn on SFW boards. There are maybe 5 occasions where I got a banned that I thought was unjustified, none longer than 5 days. On those occasions, I either flipped my router on and off to get a new IP or switched over to using data on my phone and continued to shitpost.

I find that most of the time when people are crying about bans, they are bitching because their "Race and IQ" thread was deemed "off-topic" for the Television & Film board or some stupid shit like that. While there are certainly bad jannies and unjustified bans on 4chan, most of the whining comes from /pol/tards who migrate to other boards, start off-topic threads about nigger hate or tranny hate, weand act surprised when they get a three day ban for "off-topic posting".
 
In a epic fail and turn of events, it turns out the kiwis made an entire thread about an impersonator and they all falled for it.

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The Washington Ogre said:
The 4chan feature is impossible to read through because it's nonstop posts of people crying about how the site went downhill and their personal anecdotes on a site they wasted almost twenty years on, since all seem to pretend to have started posting before 2010.
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I don't remember the exact year I started using it and encyclopedia dramatica but I had Windows XP and used limewire and FrostWire at the time.
 
Sneeder Griffin said:
Outside of /b/ and /pol/ turning to shit, 4chan is largely the same as it was 10-15 years ago.
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Haha no, you are wrong. There's been a marked deterioration in the level of discourse over the years, to the point where most boards felt like bots arguing with bots. The remaining diehards that cling on the corpse of the site are combative at best and schizophrenic at worst.
 
The Yoink Sploinker said:
Haha no, you are wrong. There's been a marked deterioration in the level of discourse over the years, to the point where most boards felt like bots arguing with bots. The remaining diehards that cling on the corpse of the site are combative at best and schizophrenic at worst.
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4chan, after the Scientology protests:

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Sneeder Griffin said:
Interesting. I'm not really surprised that it wasn't an SQL injection, since 4chan likely has ways to mitigate such attacks, considering SQL injections are so common that numerous schizos and trolls have likely tried it in the past, with little to no success.

This is good news for 4chan, as all they need to do to fix this problem is disable PDF uploads on five relatively small boards, a small price to pay to fix a major exploit that puts the whole site at risk. The site will still likely be down for a few days to investigate what was all actually taken from the server and to coordinate with law enforcement, but they shouldn't have to completely rewrite their code for the time being.

The source code leaking could possibly leave them vulnerable to future attacks as more exploits are found in the code, so they will still need to upgrade their systems and code ASAP to close these potential exploits, but it could have been much, much worse.
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Though I will say FreeBSD 10.1 is woefully out of date.

And PHP 5.5? Like what are they doing? Now that the PHP source code is leaked, maybe the weaponized autists can port it to a newer PHP version.
 
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