What would you do if you came across someone threatening to go on a shooting rampage at an unnamed university? These folks offered a helping hand.
Hacker group 4Chan have called it the ‘motherload,’ as a massive trove of nude and sexually explicit images have been dumped on the net, featuring stills and videos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst and more.
The internet is a place where lots of dark things happen. Bitcoins can be used to kill politicians and buy drugs, social media is used to post rape videos, and don’t even try to start a debate on Twitter. But a new low was reached when a 20-year-old live streamed his suicide attempt.
For the past two years, a secretive online organisation has piqued the interest of the world’s finest code-breakers in a series of seemingly unsolvable puzzles. But why? And who is behind the puzzle? Welcome, friends, to the dark and twisted world of Cicada 3301.
Popular internet messaging board, 4Chan runs on a similar premise to that of Reddit – community collaboration is their favourite pastime, especially when criminal investigation is involved. And they think they’ve found the men who bombed the Boston Marathon