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Hackers Declare War to Scientology

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

A group of hackers, who go by the name of “Anonymous” and use IRC as their base, declared war against Scientology. The group has released texts online which Scientology members normally have to pay for. Also DDoS attacks on the 18th of January rendered the church’s website unusable.

The attacks followed after Scientology tried to censor a mockup movie picturing Tom Cruise, one of the most known members of the church. In the movie the actor laughs hysterically and makes claims Scientology members are the only people able to save life’s after car accidents.

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Hack, IRC, Scum
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QuakeNet Updates IRCd

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

“It is with great pleasure and much fanfare that we can now announce that the recent maintenance to the entire QuakeNet network was completed successfully” meeb announced on the QuakeNet website. QuakeNet uses an IRCd based on Undernet’s IRCu, and the current modified version named Snircd replaces the previous IRCd in use on QuakeNet named Asuka.

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Tags: IRC, Quakenet, SNIRCd
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IRC: “Virus-like Behavior”

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Something this site has always reacted against is the general publics’ conception (actually more the mainstream press I guess) that IRC is by default something nasty, a place full of crackers, a place where your credit card details are being sold for next to nothing or a way to control a drone net.

Each morning I visit a fairly long list of sites related to IRC, and one of them includes Google News to see what “IRC” bring me.

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Tags: Hack, IRC
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Small IRC Networks Unite!

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Katsklaw contacted IRC-Junkie with a new initiative called Collectiveirc. “We basicly have a “core” which consists of dedicated servers and services when other entire networks link to us and the only thing the networks lose is the output in raw 005 (return of /map command, ed.) and any network rule that would cause a severe conflict with other networks core.”

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Tags: CollectiveIRC, IRC
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IrCQnet’s IRCOp Runner101 Passes Away

Monday, January 7th, 2008

“It’s with great sadness that we must inform the network of the passing away of one of IRCops and friends”, the network’s website starts. “Calvin Harrison better known as Runner101 has at the age of 72 years of age passed away on January 2nd due to heart complications. Cal was a great friend both personally and professionally to not only myself but to many on the network, he was a great man and will be remembered by all who knew him.”

The network opened a thread on their forum for people to leave a message if to express their feelings.

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Tags: IRC, IrCQnet
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