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4Chan Founder Moot's Weird Testimony In Sarah Palin Email Hacking Trial
The Smoking Gun has dug up some entertaining testimony from the trial of David Kernell, the 22 year-old hacker convicted of breaking in to then vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email in 2008....
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Here Is 4Chan Founder Moot's Full Testimony From The Palin Email Trial
Earlier, we posted some excerpts from the testimony of Christopher "moot" Poole in the trial of David Kernell, the 4Chan hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's email account. We picked out the most...
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A Q&A With 4Chan Founder Christopher Poole And 4Chan Users
This week, 4chan's 22-year-old founder, Christopher Poole (AKA "Moot"), held an extensive Q&A with users of the anarchic site's /b/ messageboard. The discussion ranged from technical details, to...
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4Chan Founder Christopher "Moot" Poole Joins Lerer Ventures
Christopher Poole, better known as 'Moot', is joining Lerer Ventures as an advisor, TechCrunch reports. Moot is best known as the founder of the infamous message board 4Chan, but these days he is...
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Check Out The Greatest Hits Of Operation Payback, The Hackers That Took Down...
UPDATE: Now featuring attacks on Visa and Amazon. Before Operation Payback started taking down banks that cut funding to Wikileaks, the hacktivist operation has taken down half a dozen major...
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Meet Operation Payback: The Guys Shutting Down Visa And Mastercard In Defense...
Anonymous is the online group that spun off online message board 4chan and is behind Operation Payback, the online attacks against the companies who shut off Wikileaks. The Economist has a great...
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GAWKER HACKED!
The database that holds the usernames, emails and passwords of commenters on Gawker.com and sister sites Lifehacker and Gizmodo appears to have been hacked. A hacker or group of hackers says they have...
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GAWKER MEDIA HACKED: Here's What You Need To Know
Last night Gawker Media's servers were thoroughly hacked. A group of hackers released the database of usernames, emails and passwords of its 2.5 million commenters, as well as the source code of its...
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Gawker Hackers Speak!
Gnosis, the group of hackers responsible for the thorough hacking of Gawker Media, recently gave an interview to Geekosystem and TheNextWeb. Here's what we learned: They think the release of Gawker's...
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Dutch Wikileaks Hacker Would Do It Again
Two young Dutch hackers who attacked sites like Visa in protest at actions against Wikileaks were arrested, and now one of them gave an interview. A couple of things struck us about the interview. The...
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4chan Users Predictably Young, Male, Fond Of Self-Abuse
Most of the folks on 4chan, the infamous message board which has given rise to Anonymous and Operation Payback, are predictably teenaged, male, white, and, well, enjoy masturbating, a new survey says....
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FBI Raids Pro-Wikileaks Hackers
The FBI conducted 40 raids yesterday and seized computers from members of the loosely organized group of hackers called Anonymous, and several members have posted their stories in online forums. Ars...
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Hacker Group Attacks Security "Expert," Posts His Emails Online
A lesson for security researchers: check your own security before you mess with hackers. Over the weekend, Aaron Barr, the CEO of security firm HBGary, told the Financial Times that he had identified...
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4chan Founder: Mark Zuckerberg Is "Totally Wrong," You Shouldn't Always Have...
Christopher Poole, the founder of controversial online image board 4chan, outlined his vision for Web-based community today at the South by Southwest Interactive conference — and yes, his ideas are in...
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4chan Founder Moot's New Startup Canvas Goes (Semi) Public
Canvas, the startup founded by 4chan founder moot and which hopes to be like 4chan, but without the porn and other highly offensive content, has peeled back the curtain. The site is still invite-only,...
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4chan And Canvas Founder Moot Talks About His New Startup, What 4chan Does...
Reddit is a thriving online community which often surfaces memes as well as questionable content. Christopher Poole, a.k.a. Moot, founded 4chan, the mother of all memes-and-controversy boards, and has...
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4chan Hackers Plan Involuntary Flashmob Mocking Lonely Single Men
Just over a week ago, 4Chan users posted the image to the right on the /r/4chan channel on Reddit. It's the outline of a sinister plan, first reported by Urlesque, to get scores of lonely, single guys...
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Canvas Lures Union Square Ventures Into Its $3 Million Round
Christopher Poole, founder of 4chan, just announced a $3 million Series A round for his latest startup, Canvas. Union Square Ventures is invested, along with angel investors SV Angel, Lerer Ventures,...
View ArticleWATCH: Web 2.0 Summit Livestream
The Web 2.0 Summit is happening in San Francisco right now, and the organizers are making the live stream available to any Web site who wants to post it. On the speaker list today are eBay CEO John...
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Facebook And Google "Degrade Our Humanity" With Single Identity, Says 4chan...
4chan and Canv.as founder Christopher Poole thrashed Google and Facebook for their reliance on real-world identities on their social networks, saying that it "degrades humanity" at the Web 2.0 Summit...
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