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4chan Has Been DDOSed

An anonymous reader writes "According to the 4chan status page all of the 4chan boards have been DDOSed and are down."

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  1. Oblig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And nothing of value was lost...

    1. Re:Oblig by ultranova · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And nothing of value was lost...

      Nobody values sewers until they stop working.

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  2. Aw thanks... by Stenchwarrior · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ugh...no one told me 4chan is NSFW.

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    1. Re:Aw thanks... by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

      L. O. Fucking. L.

      I don't know if that was meant to be a joke, but you owe me a new keyboard. Now excuse me, I have to go wash coffee out of my eyebrows.

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    2. Re:Aw thanks... by Stenchwarrior · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd give you mine but, well, I've spent the last several minutes on 4chan. You probably don't want it now.

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    3. Re:Aw thanks... by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, at least now we both have sticky keyboards...

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    4. Re:Aw thanks... by Aldenissin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Wait commodore64, I am a Christian, and I don't think a person should not have the freedom to smoke cannabis or be naked in his own home. Remember, many people call themselves something they are not with the intention of poisoning the well.

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    5. Re:Aw thanks... by Aldenissin · · Score: 4, Informative

      Negative, the woman "cut through" onto his property and saw he was naked inside of his own home. It makes as much sense as the guy who fell through the skylight while he was robbing someone and fell onto the knives upside down on the knife block, sued, and won. I couldn't find a similar story that I believe is different but one woman actually trespassed onto the guys property peeking into his window and had to stand on her tippy toes or get right up to the window to see him, and he was arrested as well. How can someone committing a crime cause someone else to commit a crime? Even if it could, it should be null and the original crime should take precedence and be the focus, for if it had not happened then there wouldn't have been a second.. right?

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    6. Re:Aw thanks... by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

      L. O. Fucking. L.

      I don't know if that was meant to be a joke, but you owe me a new keyboard. Now excuse me, I have to go wash coffee out of my eyebrows.

      I'd give you mine but, well, I've spent the last several minutes on 4chan. You probably don't want it now.

      You, sir, are a saint, to offer your eyebrows to a stranger like that. Whatever you've got in them will just help them stick better. Kudos to you!

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    7. Re:Aw thanks... by realityimpaired · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's why a gay man or woman cannot get married

      Sure they can. My girlfriend was married to a guy for 14 years before she met me. ^.~ (turned out he was actually a she, and was into guys, though, lol....) Her kids have no problem calling me Mom, either.... Oh the joys of kow-towing to the religious moral authority, and the pain it causes in peoples' lives... my partner and her ex are both much happier now.

      A relokgious perdson deserves about as much respect as a member of the KKK.

      I do feel the need to point out, though, that this statement is wrong, and probably somewhat offensive. There's absolutely nothing wrong with choosing to adhere to a faith, or to a religion, as long as you recognize that as a choice. And yes, I do feel that there's a distinction to be made between a Faith and a Religion. The question isn't so much what you believe, it's how you apply those beliefs, and how you treat others. A huge number of people experience a deeply spiritual and religious life without ever foisting those beliefs on those around them. As far as I'm concerned, there is exactly one rule that actually matters: do no harm. As long as you follow that rule, you have a right to believe whatever sits well with your conscience.

      (and I should point out that I consider evangelism to be doing harm... if Yahweh wants to send me the word, there's a perfectly good bush in the back yard for him to set on fire... though I'm equally bothered by evangelical atheists, too. Live and let live, yeah?)

    8. Re:Aw thanks... by Yvanhoe · · Score: 5, Funny

      Famous quote from 4chan
      - I looked at this pic and I think a part of me died.
      - It was a weak part. Now you are stronger.

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  3. YOU FOOLS!!! by Coraon · · Score: 4, Funny

    The trolls were bottled up in there fighting other trolls, now those trolls have no where to live, they'll be looking for new boards to cause havoc on, we are all doomed, doomed I tell you!

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    1. Re:YOU FOOLS!!! by dkleinsc · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The best known is "never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against 4chan when LOL's are on the line!"

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    2. Re:YOU FOOLS!!! by itsownreward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Lulz, not "LOL's." They do it for the lulz.

  4. I can see it now by DWMorse · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Oops, our bad. Has nothing to do with your recent attempt on us, promise." - Amazon.com

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  5. Who submitted the story? by Nameisyoung007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "An anonymous reader writes" ... Pure gold. I love the irony.

  6. As apprehended.... by mseeger · · 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.

    CU, Martin

    1. Re:As apprehended.... by mseeger · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If Gandhi would live today, do you think he would DDOS Mastercard? Even if you are angry you should be able to see, that you have thousand of legal actions available that he never had. They are bothersome, yes, and they will soak up your energy & time and you have to leave snail shell of anonymity, but they are available. Painting DDOS in civil disobedience colours is just a sluggards excuse. One thing Gandhi always did, when he was breaking the law: Saying here i am, i did this, come and arrest me (and they often did). If the DDOS'ler would do that too, we could start talking about civil disobedience. Right at the moment, they are just a lynch mob.

      If you want to portest: come, do it, bear the consequences. I have quite some repect for Julian Assange (even if i do not agree in a lot of things with him). He knew what he did and what consequences it might bear. Those DDOS mob is just a disgrace to the IT.

      CU, Martin

  7. Quick, change the DNS by AftanGustur · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now is the chance..

    Set the www.4chan.org A record to point to amazon.com .. That will teach them !

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  8. Re:First post by fruviad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmmm...5-digit Slashdot ID? Been here 10 years? Feh...newbie.

  9. Predicted future news by Even+on+Slashdot+FOE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  10. Re:First post by gbjbaanb · · Score: 5, Funny

    So now that the asshole of the internet is down, perhaps we can all piece together whatever is left of our lives and move out of the basement.

    Sorry to piss on your cornflakes, but Facebook is still up.

  11. Re:First post by Erik+Hollensbe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know, right?

  12. Re:4chan might be down forever. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · 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.

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  13. Re:First post by rwa2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uh, dude, you're doing it wrong.

    Just donate ~$5 to slashdot, then you get a ~15-minute preview of new posts and the time they are set to go "live".

    If you don't use it to turn off banner ads, it apparently never expires. At least mine hasn't for the past 10 years...

  14. Re:First post by cHiphead · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean the days of Something Awful, before it went paywall.

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  15. Re:4chan might be down forever. by Ziekheid · · 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.

  16. Re:I wonder... by MonChrMe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.