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27 Jul 1:45 pm by Kevin Poulsen
... responded Monday morning with a press release confirming it had temporarily blackholed img.4chan.org. But it said the ban (which has since been lifted) was a defensive ... response to denial-of-service traffic hitting an AT&T subscriber, and originating from 4chan's own network. Reached by Threat Level, AT&T declined to elaborate ... trivial issue. That's how we got to where we're at now." The trouble was triggered by 4chan's response to a denial-of-service attack that's been targeting the site's ...
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27 Jul 9:28 am by Andres
... the usual accusations of Internet censorship, and various blogs commented that things would probably get ugly, as the 4chan community is well known for its militant approach to anything resembling cyber-censorship. Mainstream media sites quickly picked up ... in some social media circles, it seems almost as if people are both fascinated and afraid of the people at 4chan. However, the solution for trolling is simpler, as xkcd nicely points out. Nonetheless, it is amazing how something like this gets ...
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19 Sep, 2008 7:04 pm by Ryan Singel
... a long time in the internet's most juvenile corners -- usually one of the image boards where everyone posts anonymously. 4chan's /b/ board -- or random -- seems to be the main hangout, though other chans and IR channels seem to serve as ... users. While it's not certain whether it was properly the work of Anonymous, the assault was rumored to have started on a thread at 7chan.org -- another Anonymous hang out -- and much was blamed on eBaumsworld, an online site often derided by Anonymous. The FBI ...
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27 Jul, 2007 3:54 pm by Ryan Singel
... profile with gay sex pictures. His girlfriend left him. Truly epic LULZ come from raids and invasions. You can view the whole segment, complete with a scene of a car bomb, here. Fox 11 actually stumbled across the /b/ (NSFW) channel of 4chan (NSFW) (update: could be wrong here, looks like Fox was tipped to the /i/ channel of a similar site - 420chan (NSFW)), a image sharing and posting site where every poster posts as Anonymous. Here supremely bored 15-year olds post obscene pictures and stupid ...
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13 Nov, 2008 9:15 pm by Kim Zetter
... questions on the account and resetting the password for the account to "popcorn." Kernell is accused of then posting the new password to a forum at 4chan.org under the username rubico10@yahoo.com and bragging about his exploit. At least one other person successfully used the ... concealed and covered up" files on his laptop computer. But despite these efforts, bloggers quickly traced the 4chan posting and rubico10 e-mail address to Kernell. FBI agents, with help from an anonymizing service that was ...
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8 Oct, 2008 1:24 pm by Peter Rost
... John McCain's vice-presidential running mate in August. The next day, the Wikileaks.org published several screen shots of Yahoo e-mail messages, e-mail addresses ... her family members, pictures of her family and at least one mobile phone number to the 4chan.org Web site. It's unclear in the indictment how the information came to Wikileaks from ... 4chan.org, an image-based bulletin board. Another person also reset the account's password and was able to access Palin's e-mail account, the indictment said ...
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21 Nov, 2007 12:25 pm
... Court for the District of New Jersey), in September of 2006 Jake Brahm, who lived in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, posted this message on the www.4chan.org site: On Sunday, October 22, 2006, there will be seven "dirty" explosive devices detonated in seven different U ... interpretation of "reasonably," so he could be held liable only if the government could prove that the readers of the www.4chan.org website would have believed his statement. The prosecution argued that it should be interpreted to permit a ...
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17 Sep, 2008 6:02 pm by Peter Rost
Here's the short version: there is a site called 4chan.org. It is an image posting site based on a popular Japanese site. The site contains multiple boards, each of which is dedicated to a particular subject. The most notorious of these boards is called /b/. /b/ is ... - no, it's not a pedophile ring; /b/tards post it because they think doing so is funny. 4chan does not log participants. Most people don't use or have usernames, and post instead as "Anonymous." ...
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8 Oct, 2008 3:18 pm by Dan Slater
... of Governor Palin and another family member, and Governor Palin's address book for her Yahoo e-mail account. The screenshots of personal information obtained from the gov.palin@yahoo.com account were posted to a public website on the Internet known as http://www-4CHAN.org. Defendant Kernell posted the reset password, thus providing the means of access to the e-mail account to others. Today, young Kernell was released ...
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9 Mar 3:17 pm by Kim Zetter
... to Palin's e-mail account by using publicly available information about her to reset her password to "popcorn." He then posted the screenshots of e-mail in Palin's account, as well as her new password, to a forum at 4chan.org under the username "Rubico", enabling other intruders to access Palin's account. Bloggers quickly traced the name Rubico to an e-mail address -- Rubico10@yahoo.com -- that Kernell was known to use, prosecutors say. ...
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29 Apr 10:50 am by Ann Bartow
Time Magazine's "World's Most Influential Person" poll got hacked. Detailed account of same here. No Tags
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20 May 12:26 pm by Kim Zetter
... using publicly available information to reset her password to "popcorn." The intruder then posted screenshots of Palin's e-mail, as well as her new password, to a forum at 4chan.org under the handle "Rubico," enabling other intruders to access the account. Bloggers quickly traced the name Rubico to an e-mail address that Kernell was known to use. Last October, federal prosecutors in Tennessee had Kernell indicted on one felony count of ...
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17 Feb 5:08 am
... committed - one outraged at least a good portion of the online community - and the community reacted to see that it was addressed. Had the 4chan people (and others, maybe) not done what they did, this incident might well have gone unaddressed. It might ... I want to note one error I've seen in some of the stories that have appeared about this case. Some of the stories refer to what the 4chan people (and others?) did as vigilantism. In other words, they're calling these guys vigilantes. They are not. ...
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28 Apr 11:26 am by Ryan Singel
... in the top 21 entries spell out the inside joke: Marblecake Also The Game. The fun started when Time all but invited the online horde to mess with it by seeding the list of possible candidates with "moot" - AKA Christopher Poole - who runs 4chan, an Anomymous stronghold responsible for some of the best and worst of net culture. According to the fine reporting of Paul Lamere at Music Machinery, Anonymous members soon figured out how to hack the poll via specially crafted URLs, then created ...
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25 Sep 2:14 am by Andres
... in the Reddit thread cited above, who kept complaining that their own communities seemed small on the map, they truly believe that 4chan and Reddit are bigger than they actually are! The truth is that troll havens are inhabited by the same dysfunctional minority that then goes forth ... do not care much for the troll-infested islands. Most self-identified geeks I know do not even know about 4chan, and those who know it stay well away. However, one good advice in an online environment is to grow a ...
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7 May 1:44 pm by Kevin Poulsen
... were really funny prank phone calls…. He made phone calls to, like, Walmart." Lundeby confirmed that her son was known online as "Tyrone," a celebrity in a prank-calling community that grew late last year out of the trouble-making "/b/" board on 4chan. Using the VOIP conferencing software Ventrilo, as many as 300 listeners would gather on a server run by Tyrone to listen to him and other amateur voice actors make often-crude and racist phone calls, some of which are archived on YouTube. The ...
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