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According to BleepingComputer, the attack was made possible by 4chan’s extremely outdated version of PHP from 2016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.

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.

you would think the 4chan people would know better

I would, in fact, not.

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"

Uncensored speech scares you like that, huh?

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.

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.

What a mature response that invites further discussion.

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