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4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked
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this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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I haven't used 4chan since like 2008, so no idea how its changed.
I do remember a username/password mechanic but can't remember how it worked.
Trip codes are I think what you're taking about, not all boards had them enabled but they were a way of authenticating a user on the boards that did
It just added a hash of the password to your posts so that others could verify which user made the post. These hashes were easily cracked though. The username could be anything you want. There was no account creation