As apprehended....
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mseeger
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· Score: 4, Interesting
One reason i thought those actions against Mastercard etc. to be stupid was, that it established DDOS as method of protest. I am afraid, we will see more of this in the future. In my textbook, DDOS is neiter a legal nor a legitimate form of protest but a criminal act. It doesn't matter wether the target is Wikileaks, Mastercard or 4chan.
4chan was taken down when a bunch of/b/-tard script kiddies handed over control of their LOIC programs to some Anonymous person on the internet, not realizing that 4chan was the target.
Re:4chan might be down forever.
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Turn-X+Alphonse
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· Score: 5, Interesting
4chan is a fine site if you're on the right boards./m/ is probably the best Japanese robots resource on the Internet,/tg/ is an excellent resource for DMs to discuss their latest campaigns and have made enough contributions to various games that some of it has even leaked into official canon (Warhammer 40,000 for example).
While I agree -most- of 4chan is a shit hole, don't discount that it's many small communities under one banner. Everyone outside of/b/ hates/b/, people just think/b/ is 4chan, which is like saying the BNP is Britian.
-- I like muppets.
Re:4chan might be down forever.
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Ziekheid
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Partly true. Eventhough I visit lots of other boards and some days really hate/b/ you just gotta love it sometimes./b/ actually is 4chan for a large part, it's the reason this article even gets posted.
As for being down, I was on there just before it went down and the mods were fucking up/b/ again by adding cotton eye joe music to the page and randomizing the colours making it hard to even view the page and about 10 minutes later the whole site was down.
Re:I wonder...
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MonChrMe
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Speculation in a comments thread elsewhere that someone put 4chans IP address in the IRC server Anonops were using, calling it Bank of America.
It would be very amusing if 4Chan had managed to DDoS themselves.:)
That said, they've got so many enemies it's impossible to say.
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One reason i thought those actions against Mastercard etc. to be stupid was, that it established DDOS as method of protest. I am afraid, we will see more of this in the future. In my textbook, DDOS is neiter a legal nor a legitimate form of protest but a criminal act. It doesn't matter wether the target is Wikileaks, Mastercard or 4chan.
CU, Martin
4chan was taken down when a bunch of /b/-tard script kiddies handed over control of their LOIC programs to some Anonymous person on the internet, not realizing that 4chan was the target.
4chan is a fine site if you're on the right boards. /m/ is probably the best Japanese robots resource on the Internet, /tg/ is an excellent resource for DMs to discuss their latest campaigns and have made enough contributions to various games that some of it has even leaked into official canon (Warhammer 40,000 for example).
While I agree -most- of 4chan is a shit hole, don't discount that it's many small communities under one banner. Everyone outside of /b/ hates /b/, people just think /b/ is 4chan, which is like saying the BNP is Britian.
I like muppets.
Partly true. Eventhough I visit lots of other boards and some days really hate /b/ you just gotta love it sometimes. /b/ actually is 4chan for a large part, it's the reason this article even gets posted.
As for being down, I was on there just before it went down and the mods were fucking up /b/ again by adding cotton eye joe music to the page and randomizing the colours making it hard to even view the page and about 10 minutes later the whole site was down.
Speculation in a comments thread elsewhere that someone put 4chans IP address in the IRC server Anonops were using, calling it Bank of America.
It would be very amusing if 4Chan had managed to DDoS themselves. :)
That said, they've got so many enemies it's impossible to say.