Combatting Cyber Terrorism - A guide to understanding the cyber threat landscape and incident response planning

APPENDIX C: GLOSSARY

• 4chan: Began life in 2003 as an ‘imageboard’, a type of chat forum that focuses on the posting of images, typically alongside text and discussion. 4chan hosts discussion and comment boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, mainly non-political. 4chan’s platform has been widely used to host diverse, radical and (sometimes) extreme views as well as to share images associated with toxicity and violence such as weapons. Because registration is not available, users tend to post anonymously, leading many researchers to describe it as a hub for subcultures and edgy topics. Other analysts feel 4chan’s own users self-police the platform effectively and that the most extreme users flush themselves out for investigation merely ...