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Sentence Spam Convicted Maintains

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the sentence against the first convicted spammer in the USA, saying anti-spam laws do not violate freedom of speech.

Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C was one of the world top spammers in 2003. The case he was convicted in was built on a single action where he produced 53,000 emails in 3 days in July 2003. He was sentenced to 9 years in jail.

Jaynes said in his defense that his spamming actions do not fall under anti-spam legislation because of freedom of speech guaranteed under the First Amendment.

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Tags: Botnets, IRC, Scum
Posted in Hack, IRC | 7 Comments »

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
Posted in Botnets/DDoS, Hack, IRC | 2 Comments »

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
Posted in IRC, IRCd, Networks | 2 Comments »

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
Posted in IRC, Networks | 1 Comment »

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