Someone managed to hack into 4chan's server yesterday and blow the whole site wide open, gaining access to site owner Hiroyuki Nishimura's
administrator account and using it to troll the site's userbase before leaking
the site's source code and
private information of everyone on the site's janitorial staff.Evidently the site's back-end is running on a
nearly decade-deprecated version of FreeBSD with a web stack that is
similarly outdated, suggesting that appallingly its web server hasn't been updated once since Hiroyuki took ownership of 4chan in 2015.
Meanwhile in a dusty corner of the internet that only a handful of people are even aware of (and much less care about) we have the Blockland forums: launched in roughly the same time period as 4chan, peaked far earlier with a userbase dwarfed by that of 4chan's on a bad day, largely inactive for the past ten years, and with an administrator that many would agree has been generally delinquent, yet still standing after all this time. Seems like things should be flipped, doesn't it? The old forum for a dead game whose heyday is now a decade and a half behind it should be the one running on a woefully out of date codebase susceptible to countless vulnerabilities that have been publicly documented for the better part of a decade--yet it's the massive image board which is actively serving as a major discussion hub for the English-speaking internet that succumbs to such a fate. Hiro is literally the worst admin of all time lmfao
