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The denizens of notorious imageboard 4chan are up to mischief again with an attack on Christians over the weekend. Login details and passwords from an unnamed social networking or dating site for Christians* were posted as a file called "christian.txt" on 4chan. The information was spread among hackers, some of whom hit on the …

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  1. Jonathan Rawling
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    Bwah.

    Say what you like about those 4Chan kids, sometimes they're hella funny - if exceedingly cruel.

    The simple, not-quite-offensive-but-a-bit-insulting ones were the funniest by far.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    Sick

    The suicide one disgusts me.

    Don't glorify these nasty teenage bastards.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Funny

    I laughed! Some of the pics were just funny as heck, some slightly disturbing, but mostly giggle worthy!

    I'm going Anon, because, well, its 4chan....

  4. Steve Evans

    I assume....

    ... they will be turning the other cheek?

    - and getting that slapped too!

  5. Ceiling Cat
    FAIL

    Why?

    Why do you keep giving 4chan this undeserved attention?

    You're just "feeding the trolls".

    Fail, because "fapping" to weird Asian tentacle porn does NOT make you "1337", or a "h4xx0r", or anything else that might be considered cool.

    Also, FAIL because people shouldn't re-use login credentials on multiple sites, ESPECIALLY banking sites.

  6. Robbie 1
    FAIL

    know your source

    Fake

    its the DB dump from singles.org being reposted on /b/

  7. Disco-Legend-Zeke

    God is gonna be pissed.

    and thats NOT a good thing

  8. jake Silver badge

    What a bunch of losers.

    Making other people miserable to justify their own miserable existence is considered "kewl"? Sad, that.

    (Before anyone comments, my views on organized religion aren't exactly complementry ...)

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Dead Vulture

    4chan is just sad

    As much as I dislike Christians and their silly religion, 4chan really step over the mark here particularly regarding the suicide joke - if the whole thing is true.

    Please do not give these bunch of script kiddies the attention that they do not deserve.

  10. Robert Heffernan
    Jobs Horns

    Plain Text??

    Honestly, what kind of site stores it's users passwords in plain text! You should always hash your password column in your databases to foil these kind of attacks.

    *Evil Jobs, because the devil must have been at work!

  11. E_Nigma
    Grenade

    LOL, Ceiling Cat

    You remind people of 4chan ("give them undeserved attention") every time you post under that name.

    P.S. ""fapping" to weird Asian tentacle porn"? So you really do watch people masturbate? :schock_horror:

  12. Drak
    FAIL

    fail even by /b/ standards

    That is so dumb, hackers break into a facebook account and the only thing they can think to do is fake murder and suicide. Too stupid even for /b/

  13. Anonymous Coward
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    LOL

    Humanity 1 People who believe in invisible man without scientific proof 0

    round 2

  14. Chris Curtis
    FAIL

    Who cares?

    I loved the part about "users use the same password on both sites."

    Umm, yeah! It's facebook. Who really gives a toss? I'll share a couple of passwords around anything and keep a completely seperate password for my internet banking. If you manage to hack into my gmail, facebook and twitter all in the same night, you need to get a life.

  15. Chris C

    Sigh

    It never ceases to amaze me how juvenile and immature people can be. Am I really that different? Even in my teenage years, I didn't badmouth or degrade people, I didn't spread rumors, and I didn't disseminate false information. I never thought it was "cool" or impressive to smoke, drink, or assault people physically or verbally. I DID play Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, and pretty much all the other FPS games at the time. And yes, I even watched the Faces of Death tapes (though I'm pretty sure they would turn my stomach today), though I never assaulted any person or animal (just the occasional wall).

    What is it that people get out of this? What's so amusing about lying about people or harassing them? Why do other people think it's amusing (or even acceptable)? What ever happened to "live and let live"? It seems to have gone the way of "agree to disagree", "the golden rule", and "personal responsibility". There's far too much animosity and hatred in this world, especially for no reason.

  16. Moss Icely Spaceport
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    Jesus saves

    ...his passwords under his desk drawer!

  17. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    What a bunch of retards

    Obviously these little losers need to go meet someone of the opposite sex (or indeed in some cases, the same sex)

  18. Anonymous Coward
    Grenade

    Tit le

    Actually the suicide one started out quite well, but instead of rolling with the 'no faith' angle (which drove all the godbotherers into a gibbering frenzy :) it kept pushing the 'suicide' button.

    Some of the 'concerned' comments eerily echoed Bill Hicks: “Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me."”

  19. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    @know your source

    REPONSE TO THIS COMMENT

    know your source #

    By Robbie 1 Posted Monday 24th August 2009 22:19 GMT

    Fake

    its the DB dump from singles.org being reposted on /b/

    -----

    NOPE ITS FROM ANOTHER SITE - singles was a while ago and there have been some inbetween

    and its actually pirated from another *chan and feed to 4chan, ironically that chan deleted the post. Helpful as always the choc factory had cached the list.

  20. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    The oxygen of publicity.

    Cut it off.

    That is all.

  21. Steve Swann
    Joke

    @Ceiling Cat

    Have you been watching us "fapping" ?!

    It's true then; Ceiling Cat *IS* watching us!

  22. lukewarmdog

    LoL

    @ all the Internet Rage.

  23. Jim Carter
    Pirate

    That did raise a smile, admittedly.

    Harsh as it was though, the phrase "love cave" is now in my lexicon.

    Pirate... erm, because I can't think of a better icon.

  24. Anonymous Coward
    Troll

    It wasn't 4chan

    Anyone "in the know" will tell you that ebaumsworld is responsible for this one.

  25. breakfast Silver badge
    Happy

    What is your demographic

    I find it funny that the internet is now old enough that Register readers are now the middle aged generation frowning on the antics of those pesky kids over on 4chan.

    Don't worry, guys, in time the circle will turn and 4chan will become a respectable middle-aged site complaining about how those kids over at some other site are all taking things too far and how we never did that stuff in my day.

  26. Ihre Papiere Bitte!!
    WTF?

    Dental Hygiene?

    "comments about dental hygiene were also included"

    What? Like "LOL I onlee brusht 4 30 secs 2day an didnt floss ROFL"?

    I daren't actually look to see what it might actually be....

  27. Anonymous Coward
    Go

    It appears...

    ...the internet hate machine is still firing on all pistons.

    for teh lulz.

  28. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Oh, FFS

    Getting into a facebook account from a posted list of IDs and password, then making childish posts etc is not showing your Leet Hacksaw Skillz, it is purile and abusive. Tosspots.

  29. Frumious Bandersnatch

    Plain Text??

    > Honestly, what kind of site stores it's users passwords in plain text! You should always hash your password column in your databases to foil these kind of attacks.

    The perlmonks website comes to mind as a recent example...

    Not too bright.

  30. blackworx
    Coffee/keyboard

    Racist comments

    Racism?! From 4chan?! Surely you jest.

  31. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    @ Paul Gray 1

    "Humanity = 1, People who believe in invisible man without scientific proof = 0

    Machines require proof and evidence. Human's swim in that indefinable pool that involves emotions, beliefs, and feelings, alongside hard facts. It's what makes us human.

    And no I'm not in any way religious myself, I'm just wise/cautious enough to think that just because I don't know FOR FACT that something is true doesn't mean it isn't.

  32. Anonymous Coward
    Troll

    I watched some of this last night

    The whole dolphin thing was somewhat scarey, but thats a whole other thread

    I did expect more of 4chan - lots of newfag rubbish, the potential for lulz was huge. I smiled a lot but feel it could have been epic and ended up overall as a fail.

    4/10 could try harder (though I did feel the need to shower after spending 4 hours on there)

  33. W
    Boffin

    @ Chris C

    I agree with you wholeheartedly on this one.

    There's a big difference between, on the one hand, staging protests against the institution of Scientology on the grounds of morality, and on the other hand, logging into an individual's accounts and potentially sabotaging their personal relationships, 'for the lulz', purely on the basis of their choice to believe in some daft fairy stories.

    I wonder how many of those who are posting on here about how funny this is are the self same folk that are up in arms at the merest mention of ID cards or national databases.

    Regardless, if I were paying to advertise on El Reg I'd be negotiating a discount on the basis of the peurile kiddie readership that seems to be in evidence of late.

  34. Anonymous Coward
    Troll

    Agreed..

    "its the DB dump from singles.org being reposted on /b/"

    This is true.

    "I'm going Anon, because, well, its 4chan...."

    This is funny, and also true.

    "Fail, because "fapping" to weird Asian tentacle porn does NOT make you "1337", or a "h4xx0r""

    No, but it does make you a viewer of /h/, rather than /b/.

    @ @know your source #

    No, it IS from singles.org - I can guarantee you of that.

    "The oxygen of publicity. #"

    You've never been on 4chan/b/ have you? They don't do it for publicity. They do it "for teh lulz".

    "It wasn't 4chan #"

    This is by far the funniest comment on here. I know *exactly* what you are talking about too!

    "Dental Hygiene? #"

    Nah, it was a coment like "Im sorry, it can be ignored no longer. Sarah [or whoever], please go see a dentist". The picture was a portrait picture of a woman with a blackened tooth, top row, left middle one.

    The christian raiding has been going on for about a week now by the way.

    *wishes there was a Vendetta mask icon*

  35. Anonymous Coward
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    Great.

    Only one thing - 4chan? I thought it was Ebaumsworld.

  36. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    @Fraser

    >purile and abusive

    That would pretty much sum up 4chan, yes. Kinda the point in fact.

  37. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    It was definitely ebaums

    srs bsns

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