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From Venture Beat:
Hackers have somehow infiltrated cat-GIF-meme-photo-sharing site Imgur to direct overwhelming volumes of traffic at 4chan, the freewheeling-forum that hosts some of the Web's darker conversations.
Naturally, this problem was uncovered over at Reddit. "When an Imgur image is loaded from /r/4chan, imgur loads a bunch of images from 4chan's content delivery network or 8chan (unclear at this point, might be both), which causes a DDoS to those sites."
Reddit thread which originally reported it here. From another thread on reddit:
"This isn't a DDOS. It's targeting 8chan users and leaving javascript code in their local storage that causes their browsers ping back to a command and control server each time they hit an 8chan page. Thus far the C&C server hasn't sent out any commands (or stopped issuing commands before this was discovered). Over the evening whoever authored this has been updating and changing their code. It only effects very specific imgur images/pages. Why is not yet known."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 23 2015, @02:47PM
99% of the population are idiots. You included.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 24 2015, @02:36AM
99pct of the pop are happy feminists banned child marraige 100 years ago.
>In the United States, as late as the 1880s most States set the minimum age at 10-12, (in Delaware it was 7 in 1895).[8] Inspired by the "Maiden Tribute" female reformers in the US initiated their own campaign[9] which petitioned legislators to raise the legal minimum age to at least 16, with the ultimate goal to raise the age to 18. The campaign was successful, with almost all states raising the minimum age to 16-18 years by 1920.