4Chan is finally in operation again, especially. The initial infamous image board fell two weeks ago, dispersing its anonymous inhabitants to the winds. Now he has a large leg restored, with users who turn to his foul family. However, not all 4chan boards will return.
In the first substantial publication of its official blog in eight years, the 4Chan team confirmed the speculation that the interruption was due to a hacker, and that the source code had committed to bone. Specifically, the blog declared that a hacker with an IP address of the United Kingdom could access 4chan servers exploiting their obsolete software through a PDF load. Subsequently, the hacker extracted a substantial amount of the 4Chan source code, before vandalizing the website and prompding moderators to close it.
“While not all of all servers were raped, the most important, and it was simply due not to update the old operating systems and the code in a timely manner,” 4Chan’s blog read on Friday.
4Chan is down, according to reports, pirated or April 15
Calling the “catastrophic” damage, the blog declared that the failure of 4chan to update its code was due to “insufficiency of qualified men and the lack of funds. As expected, it seems that the advertisers are unbeamed to associate with a commonly described website as” the Internet Cesso Pozo “, which has hindered the acquisition of cash for new servers. Servers in the second half or last year, the key functions were still being the tasks for their old hardware.
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“Everything about this process took much more than expected, which is a recurring theme in this debacle,” 4Chan wrote. “The free time that the 4chan development team had available to dedicate to 4Chan was insufficient to update our software and infrastructure quick enough, and our fate was exhausted.”
The two -week interruption of 4Chan cools your development team time to finish off the holes in your safety, as well as start bringing more volunteers. The blog establishes that the 4Chan team has since replaced the compromised server, as well as has updated its software. The server status verifier in the 4Chan blog indicated that complete functionality has not yet returned at the time of writing, the thought publications on the image board seemed to be business as always.
However, despite this, 4Chan Won once returned to his former incarnation. The ability to load PDFS is expected to return soon, having been temporarily disabled in the light of this violation. However, Flash Board / F / has been killed forever since “there is no realistic way to avoid similar exploits using .SWF files.” While / F / is still available on the main page of 4Chan and the navigation bar, it seems likely to be eliminated in the light of this ad.
Only with the trick, the death of / f / was a long time. Adobe first announced that he would stop supporting Flash Player in 2017, finally stated that he had reached the end of his life in 2020.
4Chan has a controversial story and reputation, to put it lightly. Rolling approximately two decades in 2003, the doubtful unconditional of the Internet became a culture place for memes, controversies and movements such as Hackivist Group Anonymous and the theory of the conspiracy of extreme right Qanon.