August 23rd, 2007 by phrozen77
Moderating IRC regularly makes the news, especially in junction with online child safety, or IRC network with a family type of character. But how does this work in reality? Is IRC completely moderatable? What are the costs of a moderated network? And what if moderation failed? Time for IRC-Junkie to contact several people in-the-know and see if theres an easy answer.
Let us first see what actually can be moderated on an IRC network:
1) Channel names – Check channel names that seem to point to unwanted content.
2) Channel traffic – Having network personnel actively monitoring channel traffic.
Tags: IRC
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August 19th, 2007 by phrozen77
In February 2006 IRC-Junkie featured an article titled “Help! My Network is in Servers.ini!”. In short, the article names one of the problems small networks engage when they become listed in mIRC’s servers.ini.
One of the major drawbacks is that not only humans use this file, downloading an up-to-date servers.ini is also one of the first things a newly installed drone is doing. And thus, attracting drones is one of the side effects that could cause a lot of problems that eat up valuable resources, which are often not really in abundance on small networks anyway.
Tags: Botnets, Hack, IRC, mIRC, Software
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July 24th, 2007 by phrozen77
“I am writing to this list because I no longer know where to turn” admin Anthony from Ablenet started his email to the full-disclosure list. “Over the course of the past 2 to three weeks I have watched my services on the Internet become systematically blocked and redirected by no less than 3 major isps in their efforts to stop botnets from connecting to IRC.”
Tags: AbleNET, Botnets, EFNet, IRC, NetNeutrality
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July 19th, 2007 by phrozen77
Hackers united in #iphone are close to cracking the iPhone, several media reported this week.
Once cracked, the phone can be used with different providers, and third party software can be used on the phone. Additionally, the phone can then be used in parts of the world where it is not released yet, such as Europe and Asia.
Jon Lech Johansen, well known as DVD Jon, was one of the first to release a hack for the iPhone. The hack would activate the phone and the Wi-Fi capabilities. The device can not yet operate as a telephone with this hack however, but Jon has an answer to that on his blog, “Stay tuned!”
Tags: Hack, iPhone
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July 14th, 2007 by phrozen77
UnrealIRCd has decided to make a drastic change in it’s project. They decided to, instead of writing a new Unreal4 in C++ Aspects, to instead fork InspIRCd; a completely modular IRCd that has been gaining interests over the years. This change is due in large because of Syzop going inactive (Article) and their only being one head developer (Stskeeps) left to run the projects.
Tags: IRC, Unreal IRCd
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